[Rarebooks] fs: Racist satire of Lincoln's White House

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     11447    . [Ottolengul, Daniel]. BEHIND THE SEAMS; BY A NIGGER 
WOMAN WHO TOOK IN WORK FROM MRS. LINCOLN AND MRS. DAVIS.
(S.l.): (s.n.), [1945]. Limited edition, Wrappers, Octavo, 24 pages. Fine.
          This racist satire originally appeared shortly after 
publication of Elizabeth Keckley's "Behind the Scenes or, Thirty Years a 
Slave, and Four Years in the White House" in 1868. This is #69 of a 1945 
facsimile edition limited to 200 copies. In addition to the limitation 
page this edition includes a two page Prefatory Note by "A. Lincoln 
Fann" and dated April 1, 1945. Reprint of MONAGHAN #907. Bound in 
printed wraps with saddle-stapled binding. Slight browning along spine. 
Scarce in any edition....... $125.00
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