The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University

Scarce, First Edition copy of The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University, By Rev. Horace Talbert. The Aldine Press, Xenia, Ohio, 1906. A first edition in good condition; with index, frontis sketch of Bishop Richard Allen with tissue guard, and sketches of each man represented,    9" X 6"   286 pages. Bishop Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church. "Not yet fifty years from slavery, these sketches portraying the proud success of lawyers, doctors, authors, editors, ministers, business men, scientists, college students, etc. are worthy of redemption from obscurity as an earnest of still greater things promised by the future."---from the preface