Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem [Signed by Nelson]

Asheville, NC: Front Street, 2004. Very Good -/Very Good -. Asheville, NC: Front Street, 2004. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo (24.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 31pp.; illus. throughout. Ex-Edmund Burke School Library with usual markings, margins rubbed, upper jacket panel a bit soiled with faint surface scratches, old Signed by the Author sticker; overall Good to Very Good. Signed by the author on title page.

Lengthy poem dedicated to an enslaved man named Fortune whose skeleton had been held at the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut for 200 years before DNA testing in 1996 finally identified whose it belonged to.