The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. First printing. Black and white frontispiece and plates by E. W. Kemble. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [vi], 362 pages.
fine collection of 20 short stories by pivotal African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was first a poet. Dunbar deftly weaves in and out of dialect in these stories.
Ref. METCALF pp. 71-72.
Bound in brown cloth over boards with illustration to spine and upper board stamped in black, white, and gilt (spine), gilt-stamped titles to spine and upper board. A few light rubs to spine ends and fore corner tips, some faint dulling to spine, and a few minor scratches to white of upper board illustration. Hinges sound. Near fine overall.
Item #1441
Price: $350