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Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)
Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)
Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)
Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)
Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)
Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)
Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)

Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)

Following the model educational plan of Booker T. Washington


Inscribed: “To Mr. W.H. Middlebrook. In the spirit in which he met us. Laurence C. Jones, Founder + Principal of the Piney Woods School, Piney Woods Miss. Feb. 1939.” A University of Iowa graduate and educational reformer, Jones dedicated his career to supporting Black literacy in the mode of Booker T. Washington: through academic study and practical labor such as agriculture and domestic science.

Three ephemeral items. 1. The Pine Torch. Vol I. No. 5. Four-page school newspaper (small paper loss), its leading article photo-illustrating a female graduate: “Ella Carter – A Dividend for all who have ever helped Pine Woods School.”  2. The Pine Torch. Vol. I. No. 2. Photo-illustrations of the campus, a line drawing map, articles.  3. Leaflet with map: “What a Southern Man —Mr. Francis Harmon. Assistant to the President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.— Thinks of The Piney Woods School.”

The book’s scarce illustrated dust jacket has a lengthy flap blurb by the banker-philanthropist George Foster Peabody.


Description: Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1922). Ninth (Revised) Edition. Frontispiece, 154pp. + [18] halftone plates. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth. Slightly cocked; endpapers tanned; Very Good in a soiled dust jacket.

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Price: $300.00