(Association Copy)(African-American) (Caribbean) Amber Gold. An Adventurous Autobiography

Maloney, A. H.

Published by Meador Publishing Company, Boston, 1946

About this Item

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" With profound good fellowship to my friend and compatriot The Rev. E. H. Oxley. A.H. Maloney 8. 16. 49". Arnold Hamilton Maloney ( 1888-1955 ) was a Trinidad born African-American physician, pharmacologist, professor and author, who at age 23 had the distinction of being the youngest minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church.m He left the Church in 1915. From 1931 until 1953 Maloney rose from associate professor to full professor to head of the department of pharmacology at Howard University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He is perhaps most known for discovering an antidote for barbiturate poisoning. The Rev. Dr. Edmund H. Oxley, Sr.(1881-1973) was born in Trinidad in 1881. He was the longstanding pastor and rector of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church, a historical African-American church in Cincinnati. The book is Near Fine, prior owner gift inscription hidden by front flap, final two pages top corner creased. In a Very Good dust jacket, 1/4" loss of paper at head of spine, a 2 1/2" loss at base of spine. RARE in current commerce, WorldCat appears to show 12 libraries with a copy. A significant Caribbean African-American Association Copy. Brignano, Russell C. "Autobiographical Books by Black Americans: A Bibliography of Works Written since the Civil War." Negro American Literature Forum, vol. 7, no. 4, 1973, pp. 148-56. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: (Association Copy)(African-American) (Caribbean) Amber Gold. An Adventurous Autobiography
• Publisher: Meador Publishing Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1946
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine
  • African-American Studies