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1905 · 002336 — Tenn.: The Orion Publishing 1905 Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 5 x 7 ½. Title: THE HINDERED HAND/SUTTON E. GRIGGS/1905/SUPER RARE/ FIRST ED Author: Sutton E. Griggs Publisher/Copyright: The Orion Publishing Tenn 1905 Edition: the First Edition Condition:all defects if any are formulated into pricing The outside has a used look about it. There are some very small greenish like paint stains on the top to the spine that are almost unnoticeable. The paste on picture on the front board has some slight rubbing. There is a penciled signature that can easily be erased on the front endpaper and the inside back board. Heavy like foxing on the first and last few pages. Book is without marks or writings pages are clean but foxed book is tight and sturdy. A good copy. Size: 5 x 7 ½ approximatelyPages: 303 pages Binding/Cover: Hardback without dust jacket Refunds: All items are 100% refundable up to 10 days after item received Background/Description: First Edition. There is a third edition on the Internet selling for $1800. The only 2 First Editions are in the $2950-3500 range. SUPER RARE COPY! The Orion Publishing Tenn 1905. Goodminus/None dust jacket condition. Overall book has a used look about it inside and outside. Rough outside with heavy foxing inside; there appears to be a minor glue repair to the glue block affecting slight stick in the gutters of first and last page. The reign of the Repressionist. But there is only one date on the copyright and title page and it is 1905. The book is dark maroon in color. GRIGGS SUTTON ELBERT 1872-1933. Sutton Elbert Griggs novelist and minister was born at Chatfield Texas to Rev. Allen R. Griggs in 1872. His father was a former Georgia slave who had become a prominent Baptist minister in Texas. After graduating from Dallas public schools and Bishop College in Marshall 1890 Griggs attended Richmond Theological Seminary at Richmond Virginia between 1890 and 1893. On May 10 1897 he married Emma J. Williams of Portsmouth Virginia. Upon graduating from seminary Griggs took a pastorate in Berkley Virginia. It was here that he wrote his first novel Imperium In Imperio 1899 which may be the first black nationalist novel. Over the course of his career Griggs wrote more than a dozen books including five novels five social tracts his autobiography a short biography of John L. Webb and The Kingdom Builder's Manual 1924 a booklet of biblical quotations. At his expense he published and distributed these works which were generally written for "the aspiring classes of the black south." Although virtually unknown among whites his writings were generally read by African Americans. Griggs wrote in a very direct style that was somewhat stiff and formal. He was one of the few Southern members of the Niagra movement a civil rights group which had an outspoken platform based on the issue of racial and social justice and which eventually evolved into the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Although he has often been characterized as a black nationalist based on the plot of his first novel this may be an overgeneralization since his subsequent novels do not contain this theme. In Imperium in Imperio Griggs chronicles the social and political injustice to which blacks are subjected. He describes the meeting of the Imperium in Imperio a secret political organization in Waco Texas composed of blacks who are frustrated with the social and political status of blacks in America. In the novel the leader of the organization argues for the violent takeover of the state of Texas. Neither this work nor any subsequent novel by Griggs received widespread distribution. Although succeeding Griggs novels Overshadowed 1901 Unfettered 1902 The Hindered Hand 1905 and Pointing the Way 1908 are deemed "less militant" by some scholars they received poor circulation. One reason may be that many of Griggs's philosophies 009400camera inv. The Orion Publishing hardcover