FEAGIN, William F.

First Report of the Alabama Illiteracy Commission, April 2, 1915 – October 1, 1916

Montgomery, AL: Brown printing Co. for the commission, 1916. First edition. 8vo. 125 pp. Well illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, tables, plates. Includes reports on white and African-American illiteracy. The author was serving as secretary-treasurer of the commission at the time of publication. OCLC: “Prints bulletins on illiteracy in Alabama and education of illiterate adults … no more published.” OCLC locates eight copies (Auburn, Mobile Public, Kentucky, Detroit Public, Yale, Illinois, Harvard, Michigan). Original cream wrappers (head of spine a little worn, chip in blank edge of title leaf), printed in blue. Very good. Item #66862

Price: $275.00