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NY: Margent Press. GOOD book, no DJ. ep's & margins browned. Shelfworn.. 1943. 1st ed likely. Hardcover. GOOD book, no DJ. VG+ text. Book about Blacks working for Federal Government, their goals, trials & acheivments. Scarce. .
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HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS WITH UNCLE SAM
by Paynter, John H XX
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Horse and Buggy Days With Uncle Sam
by PAYNTER, John H.
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Margent Press. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Owner's name on rear endpage. In protective mylar cover. (civil service, autobiographies, employees)
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Horse and Buggy Days with Uncle Sam
by Paynter, John H.
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New York: Margent Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Margent Press, 1943. First Edition. 8vo. 190pp. 13 full-page individual or group portraits. Brown cloth, near fine (both lower corners bumped); dj moderately chipped/frayed at edges, very good. Mr. Paynter served in the government for 52 years, except for two years in the Navy. He had various assignments, including work in Washington with the Census of 1890, the Post Office in Denver, and the Internal Revenue at Treasury in Washington. "He writes of the inequities of Civil Service, gives specific instances of unfair practice, and tells of the follies and frailties of government employees. The failure of Reconstruction and Negro legislators
he resents the hindrances from within which are placed in the way of Negroes' progress, and the crippling financial failure which sometimes follow" (dj). ; 13 portraits; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .
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Horse and Buggy Days with Uncle Sam
by PAYNTER, John H.
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New York: Margent Press, 1943. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [i-xviii ],19-190pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly scuffed and edgeworn dustwrapper; small loss of text at base of spine panel, Very Good. Memoir by an African-American author, documenting a long career in government service, including Naval enlistment during the Spanish-American War. Valuable for Paynter's straightforward accounting of the "hindrances which are placed in the way of Negroes' progress, and the crippling financial failures which sometimes follow.
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