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Candle-Lightin' Time (First Edition)
by Paul Laurence Dunbar; Margaret Armstrong (illustrator)
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901. First Edition. First Edition. First printing, with the title page in state B, printed in black and green. With art nouveau decorations by Margaret Armstrong, and photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, throughout.
A collection of nine poems by renowned, influential African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, best known for his dialect verse.
Very Good plus in a Very Good plus example of the excessively rare dust jacket. Gilt lightly rubbed, with some offsetting from the jacket flaps to the endpapers, faint foxing on the half-title page. Jacket has a few short tears on the edges, two mended with archival tape on the verso, and small chips at the corners and crown.
A collection of nine poems by renowned, influential African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, best known for his dialect verse.
Very Good plus in a Very Good plus example of the excessively rare dust jacket. Gilt lightly rubbed, with some offsetting from the jacket flaps to the endpapers, faint foxing on the half-title page. Jacket has a few short tears on the edges, two mended with archival tape on the verso, and small chips at the corners and crown.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160426
- Title
- Candle-Lightin' Time (First Edition)
- Author
- Paul Laurence Dunbar; Margaret Armstrong (illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- African American Interest | Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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We are an open shop located in the midtown section of Baltimore. Check our website for directions if you are coming through the Baltimore area. We are open 10AM-6PM EST, Monday through Friday. You may email an order at any time, 24 hours a day.
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- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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