From Harlem to the Rhine: The Story of New York's Colored Volunteers (Signed)
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, (1936). First Edition. Black and white photographic plates. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. xviii, 382 pages.
Firsthand account of action in Europe during World War I, with the 15th New York Volunteer Infantry--an African American unit of the 369th U.S. Infantry. Nicknamed the Harlem Hell Fighters, the unit sailed for France in November of 1917. They fought with courage and valor, with two of their number--Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts--being among the first Americans to receive the Croix de Guerre from the French government. Arthur Little was a white officer who fought alongside this brave regiment, and he chronicles their heroism, their battlefield triumphs, and their struggles with racism.
This copy has a lengthy inscription from the author on half title page, which he has signed and dated September 20, 1940.
Bound in blue cloth over boards with foil-stamped spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, and blue topstain. Fading to spine and top edges of boards. Jacket has browning to spine, shallow rubs and creases to top edge of rear panel, and a few shallow edge chips. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
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