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SHIELDS, Anna.  THREE VOLUMES OF POETRY: PASSION WEEK, UNPOLISHED TRUTHS, & ETHIOPIA'S PETITION. Cambridge, MA: [n.p.] 1918-1924. First editions.

ETHIOPIA'S PETITION. Cambridge, MA: The Author [n.d. ca. 1918]. First edition. 8 pp. 16mo., brown wrappers, cord-tied, printed in red. Slight corner wear, ink ownership to front cover. Faint creasing to corners internally. Two poems. Rare.

Very little is known of Anna Shields (Mrs.), though Cambridge was the home to one of the oldest African American communities in the nation and has long attracted African Americans of national prominence and influence. Twenty historic plaques across the city honor notable African American residents who were abolitionists, authors, educators, and office holders in Cambridge from 1840 to 1940. (We assume she was an African American poet.) We can find nothing in the Boston Business Directories listing the Ideal Press, though a business with the same name was active in Philadelphia in 1923. The three: SOLD
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