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2026 RBMS Virtual Showcase

June 23-26, 2026

Virtual Book Fair Exclusive

Benjamin Banneker [Cover title: The Story of Benjamin Banneker]

Flossie E. Thompson-Peters; Kathy Clo [illus.]

$75
Offered by Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Publisher: Atlas Press
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA
  • Date: 1986
  • Seller SKU: 47645

Los Angeles, CA: Atlas Press, 1986. Very Good. Los Angeles: CA: Atlas Press, 1986. First Edition, stated first printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp.; illus. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn from handling, internally clean and sound. Very Good overall.

Scarce biography in verse for young children telling the story of Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), the Black American naturalist, astronomer, and almanac author, who first gained recognition at the age of twenty-one when he constructed a clock that struck every hour on the hour.

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Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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Washington, District of Columbia 20003
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