The Blackbirder.

DOROTHY B. HUGHES

Publication: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943, New York

First edition. Signed by the author. Bookplate of Adrian Homer Goldstone on front pastedown sheet. Fine in dust jacket with light professional restoration to head of spine. The old slave-traders were known as "blackbirders," and now in the second quarter of the 20th century, traffic in humans was going on again. One thousand dollars to get a refugee over the border and into New Mexico. One desperate girl finds her way to Santa Fe in order to escape--but what is pursuing her? Sharp copy.

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