African American Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)

Folks From Dixie

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. First printing. Color plates by E. W. Kemble. Cloth over boards. Small octavo. 263 pages. Very good. Bound in brick red cloth over boards with spine and upper board stamped in gilt and black. Portrait vignette on upper board. Top edge gilt. Slight lean to spine, prior owner bookplate on front pastedown, poem by James D. Corrothers laid down on rear endpaper. Binding shows a few minor extremity rubs. Hinges sound. Handsome copy.

A nice first edition of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry, with color illustrations by Kemble.

Item #996

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