(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (African-American) McRee, Patsie. The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch.

Illus, with drawings of African Americans working in the South, by K. Burke. Dec. brownn cloth lettered in yellow. First Edition. Atlanta: Cullom & Ghertner, 1948.

Signed by author Patsie McRee on the front free endpaper. The restaurant was famous for its racist portrayals of Black people (especially their own servers and performers); more can be learned about it here. Poems in “negro dialect” by the daughter of a former landowner for whom numerous African Americans worked in post-slavery Georgia, accompanied by recipes (also in dialect). According to McRee, they were treated well and were extraordinarily happy (a typical myth many direct descendants of Southern landowners chose to believe). A few smudges to front free endpaper, else near fine. 

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