New York: Oliver Dodd, Publisher, (1890). First edition. 12mo, 200 pp. Publisher's paper over boards backed in brick cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Wright III: 2636.

Brief wear at spine extremities, corners bumped & rubbed, small gouge along the lower edge of the rear cover, light foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise Very Good.

Set in Memphis, Tennessee, Nicholas Blood chronicles the race for mayor between a black candidate & his white rival. A contemporary review provides clarity of a sort: "The negro question in our South is producing a literature of its own. This bit of realistic fiction deserves no mean number in the list of books devoted to that momentous problem. It is written from the point of view of the white race, as a terrible warning against the dangers of negro domination." Arthur Henry , a journalist & playwright, was an associate & friend of Theodore Dreiser. He served as mentor & assisted in the editing of Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie.

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Bookseller: Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0000228
Title: Nicholas Blood, Candidate.
Author: [African American Polemic]. HENRY, Arthur
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Oliver Dodd, Publisher
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: (1890)
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: African American, Polemic, reconstruction, Memphis, Tennessee, Theodore Dreiser, Racist
Bookseller catalogs: African American; Literature, Fiction, Poetry;

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