Candle-Lightin' Time
by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good condition
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd Mead & Co, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 127pp. Original green cloth with embossed color illustration adorned with gilt symbols and lettering on spine, gilt illustration and lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated half-title. Frontispiece photograph. Illustrated title page printed in green and black. All pages, photographs and poems, are adorned with intricate and beautiful Art Nouveau frames by Margaret Armstrong, printed in light green. Illustrated with fifty-one photographs, ten of them full page, by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, depicting the life of African Americans. Binding with light wear. Bookplate of Senator Henry M. Dunlap on inside front cover. Inscriptions addressed to Dunlap's wife Nora B. Dunlap from her mother on her 25th anniversary, July 5th, 1902 on front free endpaper and on verso of frontispiece. Block lightly age-toned.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50169
- Title
- Candle-Lightin' Time
- Author
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Dodd Mead & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- b/w photography, African American photographs, book illustration, Art Nouveau, American poetry
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Spine
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
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- Title Page
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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