Oblong folio. (17)ff. An unused and rather gigantic coloring book produced for the United States bicentennial, the volume traces the march of American history through Black figures important to and inextricable from its history. Included are Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, Granville T. Woods, Madam C. J. Walker, Norbert Rillieux, Paul Laurence Dunbar, George Washington Carver, Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., and Martin Luther King, Jr. The colophon explicitly specifies that the purposes of the volume are both didactic and amusing, and provides a list of other titles in the series. This truly "large" edition is unrecorded, and even the smaller "trade" copies are rather scarce. Alton L. Dave was a military veteran who, at the time of publication, was beginning a much-lauded career in engineering. Bound in colorful wrappers with front cover showing portraits of the various individuals represented in the book. Interior quite clean and with minimal chipping, covers rubbed and with margin creasing and small loss to outer edge of front panel, glancing dampstain to bottom corner of lower cover, which does not seem to infringe upon the pages. Good+