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Dunbar, Paul Laurence. CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME;. Dodd mead & Co, 1901.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Green cloth covered boards with faded decorative image to front cover, moderate silver fish damage to covers, corners bumped, old dampstain to fore-edge of back cover. Front free end paper missing, former owners library stamp on the inside of front cover, book body illustrated with b/w photographs.

Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead & Co, NP, 1901.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (1901). 8vo. 1st edition. Lacking d.j. VG.

Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd Mead, New York, 1901.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition, First Printing ("First edition, Published, October 1901" on copyright page and red and black on the title page). Original attractive green decorated cloth. Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Ex-library with three white numerals at the boot of the spine, library stamps, and a cardholder inside the rear cover, Previous owner's name in ink, internals very nice, Good. No Dust Jacket.

Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.

Paul Laurence Dunbar. Candle-lightin' Time. Dodd Mead & Co ,, New York, 1901.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, Decorations by Margaret Armstrng and Illustrations by the Hampton Institute Camera Club green cloth, faded and discolored, small water stain bottom of some pages, not effecting anything, A Very Good Copy no DJ

Seller: Uncommon Books - The Gomez Collection, Port St. Lucie, FL, U.S.A.

DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME. Dodd, 1901.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Dunbar, Paul Laurence. CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901. Tall 8vo., dark-green cloth stamped in white, black, brown & gilt; 127 pages. First Edition. State A of the title page, with the title page printed in red & black (a deposit copy noted thus but it does not appear to be a scarce issue). Ink inscription on the front endpaper: "When this you see remember me, Theo. W. McKnight, Christmas, 1901. To Harriet M. Claxton [?], 3410 Baring Street, Philadelphia." Harriet Claxton was the third wife of Robert Bethell Claxton, a West Philadelphia pastor who once owned the Second Empire-style house at 3410 Baring Street, which is now a registered historic building. Harriet was the daughter of Theodore W. McKnight, so I assume the presenter is a relative. Very Good (covers nice & bright, contents clean & tight). A nice copy! $150.00 (1310) BLACK.

Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Some cover wear. Replaced front endpaper. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. ; 127 pages

Seller: Jonathan Grobe Books, Deep River, IA, U.S.A.

Paul Laurence Dunbar. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback book (127 pages) illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Bound in grenn pictorial cloth boards that show minor scuffing/rubbing with spine a bit faded - occasional foxing on some pages. A lovely copy. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG-2-TS-R) rareviewbooks

Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd Mead & Co, New York, 1901.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd Mead & Co, New York, 1901.

Price: US$180.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Margaret Armstrong Binding in Green Cloth

Seller: Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd Mead, New York, 1901.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Beautifully decorated book of African-American poetry. Green cloth boards with stamped red, black, white & gold illustration on front, gold decoration on spine. Gold top page edges. Photograph with each poem and green decorated pages by Margaret Armstrong. 127 pages. Housed in custom cut-out front slipcase by Robert Wang. See photos of front and in slipcase. Tiny wear at bottom edge of boards.

Seller: Old Algonquin Books, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Green cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt, cream, dark green and red. Binding and decorations by Margaret Armstron. Minor rubbing to spine tips and corners, near fine in custom mylar cover.

Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1901.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. hardcover. Beautiful illustrations and photographs. no dj as issued.

Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd Mead & Co., NY, 1901.

Price: US$202.50 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Hardcover first edition. No dustjacket. A lovely copy - covers are bright and clean, gold lettering on front cover / spine is still bright / floral print design on front cover is rich in all 4 colors. A nice ink written gift inscription appears on the FEP . Inside pages are clean and bright.

Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.

Paul Laurance Dunbar. Candle Lightin Time. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1901.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: a near fine to fine copy, only a trace of fading to the spine lettering, else bright very fine copy. Dodd Mead & Co., New York, 1901. Hardcover. 1st edition, Octavo in original publisher's binding with decorative pictorial decoration by Margaret Armstrong stamped in red, white, gilt and black on front cover with ornate gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with half-tone photo plates by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. BAL 937. remarkably nice copy Paul Dunbar was the first great well known Afro american poet and novelists. . Paul Dunbar's (1872 - 1906) his third published book of poetry in the African-American dialect.

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time.. Dodd Mead & Co. New York, 1901., 1901.

Price: US$240.79 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Near fine. Photographs. 8vo., A lovely copy bound in green pictorial cloth embossed in gold, t.e.g. Lacks from free end paper.

Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1901.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: frontis (portrait), decorative cover & page borders (by Margaret Armstrong), photos (by the Hampton Institute Camera Club), 127p. Green cloth. Partially gilt cover decorations. 22cm. Heavily browned along gutter of first three leaves (probably from old, now absent, tape). Former owner's name (which appears to be Alice P. Benjamin, although we're not certain of the last name). Last text leaf trimmed and glued in. No Jacket. Top edge gilt. Ms. Benjamin wrote the following on the front free endpaper: "I knew Alice and Paul Dunbar very well For many years we were next door neighbors - "In and out" Have had several ask for this copy for the illustrations which are very hard to find." [Association Copy]. 2nd State (title in green on title-page).

Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.

Paul Laurence Dunbar. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1901.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original green gilt cloth with cover and decorations designed by Margaret Armstrong. With the date in Roman numerals on the title page and gilt top edges. A scarce collection of the famed Black poet's poems for the lowly with striking photographs of Southern plantation life. This copy belonged to Vida Hunt and was inscribed to her by J. Hays Louderback, whose signature and her name appear on the free endpaper, dated 1901 with no other markings throughout the book. A clean, bright copy free of chipping, wear or soiling.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1901.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Illustrated from photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorative cloth and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. A bit of rubbing and fading mostly on the front board, an attractive, very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very nice copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME; by Paul Laurence Dunbar / Illustrated with Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club / and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, 1901.

Price: US$345.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo (8 3/4" x 6"), original publisher's decorative green cloth with Art Nouveau panel on front cover with beautifully stylized golden moon and nine tri-lobed white flowers; illustrated with warm photographs of black life by the Hampton Institute Camera Club: B&W photographic frontispiece and 45 half-tone plates (several full-page & others one-third page) within decorative borders by Margaret Armstong--facing Paul Dunbar's poetic interpretations; 127 pages. No dust jacket. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906) was the son of two former Kentucky slaves (one being a father who managed to escape and joined the Union Army). Young Dunbar was raised and went to school in Dayton, Ohio. He became--almost uniquely in the dismal era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow--a black American poet, novelist, and playwright. Known early in his development as the "elevator boy poet" of Dayton, Dunbar's career was helped by supportive local teachers, white critic William Dean Howells, and black social reformer Frederick Douglass. During a career that spanned a mere 13 years before he died from TB, Dunbar managed to travel widely yet wrote about 400 poems in addition to lyrics, novels and short stories. He used southern dialects to honestly represent his subjects. This collection of his charming poetry and sensitive photographs is distinguished not only by warm-hearted sympathetic poetry in dialect about rural black life, but also by the unfoxed and very handsome B&W photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club that elevate the roles of black women and men. See, in particular, the dissertation (& abstract) by Ray Saperstein, Out from behind the mask: the illustrated poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and photography at Hampton Institute. Led principally by Leigh Richmond Miner and other progressive whites, the Hampton Institute Camera Club flourished from the 1890s through the 1920s. Saperstein's dissertation "reveals that the photographs in Dunbar's works were created explicitly to reconceive pictorial representations of African Americans, and to subtly discredit any reductive conventional perception of racial character altogether. By depicting their subjects photographically, the members of the Hampton Camera Club sought to undermine essentialist characterizations--both derogatory and sentimental--by presenting their subjects as self-determining and multifaceted individuals." (Univ. of Texas dissert. abstract, on line). Condition: tight, clean, quite bright volume with minimal wear; a delightfully designed Art Nouveau front cover with slight wear though retaining much of its color; plus superb B&W plates without foxing of rural black life. Very Light uniform age-toning. Light rubbing to the cloth and decorations. No entries by previous owners. Later state title page with green rather than red and back titles. BAL 4937.

Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.

DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1901.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Illustrated from photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorative cloth and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Neat early owner's name, a faint spot on the front board trifle rubbed, else a bright near fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very nice copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906). Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 127 pages with plates including frontispiece. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with pictorial decorative brown, black, white and gilt front cover, lettering in gilt. Illustrated with photographs by Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. (BAL 4937) First edition, first state with red and black lettering tot title. Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who had escaped from slavery; his father was a veteran of the American Civil War, having served in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry Regiment. His parents instilled in him a love of learning and history. He was a student at an all-white high school, Dayton Central High School, and he participated actively as a student. During high school, he was both the editor of the school newspaper and class president, as well as the president of the school literary society. Dunbar had also started the first African-American newsletter in Dayton. He wrote his first poem at age 6 and gave his first public recital at age 9. Dunbar's first published work came in a newspaper put out by his high school friends Wilbur and Orville Wright, who owned a printing plant. The Wright Brothers later invested in the Dayton Tattler, a newspaper aimed at the black community, edited and published by Dunbar. His first collection of poetry, Oak and Ivy, was published in 1892 and attracted the attention of James Whitcomb Riley, the popular "Hoosier Poet". Both Riley and Dunbar wrote poems in both standard English and dialect. His second book, Majors and Minors (1895) brought him national fame and the patronage of William Dean Howells, the novelist and critic and editor of Harper's Weekly. After Howells' praise, his first two books were combined as Lyrics of Lowly Life and Dunbar started on a career of international literary fame. He moved to Washington, D.C., in the LeDroit Park neighborhood. While in Washington, he attended Howard University. His wife Alice Dunbar Nelson was a famous poet as well. A graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans, her most famous works include a short story entitled "Violets". She and her husband also wrote books of poetry as companion pieces. An account of their love, life and marriage was depicted in a play by Kathleen McGhee-Anderson titled Oak and Ivy. He kept a lifelong friendship with the Wrights, and was also associated with Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. Brand Whitlock was also described as a close friend. He was honored with a ceremonial sword by President Theodore Roosevelt. He wrote a dozen books of poetry, four books of short stories, five novels, and a play. He also wrote lyrics for In Dahomey - the first musical written and performed entirely by African-Americans to appear on Broadway in 1903; the musical comedy played successfully toured England and America over a period of four years - one of the more successful theatrical productions of its time. His essays and poems were published widely in the leading journals of the day. His work appeared in Harper's Weekly, the Saturday Evening Post, the Denver Post, Current Literature and a number of other publications. During his life, considerable emphasis was laid on the fact that Dunbar was of pure black descent, with no white ancestors ever. Dunbar's work is known for its colorful language and use of dialect, and a conversational tone, with a brilliant rhetorical structure. Dunbar traveled to England in 1897 to recite his works on the London literary circuit. He met the brilliant young black composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor who some of his poems to music and who was influenced by Dunbar to use African and American Negro songs and tunes in future compositions. After his return, Dunbar took a job at the Library of Congress in Washington. In 1900, Dunbar was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and moved to Colorado with his wife on the advice of his doctors. Dunbar died at age thirty-three

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.

Paul Laurence Dunbar. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead, 1901.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Dodd Mead, New York, 1901. Hardcover, 127 pp. 1st edition (stated). Poetry. With photographs from the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Designed by Margaret Armstrong. Very good condition with touches of shelf wear at extremities, two small blemishes on front board. Solid, clean and unmarked, with original bookstore ticket on rear paste-down (Brentano's, New York).

Seller: Randall's Books, Cathedral City, CA, U.S.A.

Paul Laurence Dunbar. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd-Mead and Company, New York, 1901.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Brown, pale yellow, dark green, and gold on light green, rough linen weave cloth design of moon in gold over flowers in dark green and pale yellow by Margaret Armstrong unsigned. Decorated half-title and title page, with decorations and borders in pale green and/or black.Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. A very tight, bright fine copy.

Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time; Illustrated with Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Dodd, Mead 7 Co, New York, 1901.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 127pp; decorative green cloth printed in gilt and three colors. A nice copy of this volume from Dunbar's important late series of books featuring Hampton Institute photographs. This copy is offered together with a copy of another volume in the sequence: Poems of Cabin and Field, albeit one from which the title page has been neatly excised, rendering impossible the determination of edition. The photographs cntained in these volumes comprise an important contrbution both to the history of photography and the representation of Black life at the end of the nineteenth century. Both volumes are from the library of photographer and photo-theorist Allan Sekula, with his ownership stamp in each. Gift inscription dated 1901; ownership stamp on front pastedown; lightly shelf-rubbed, else bright and near fine

Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Illustrated with Photographs By the Hampton Institute Camera Club and Decorations By Margaret Armstrong. candle-lightin' Time. Dodd Mead & Co., New York, 1901.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Beautiful book of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems using standard English along with the dialect of turn-of-the-century black America. The book is highlighted by 52 wonderful black and white photos by The Hampton Institute Camera Club and marvelous intricate green tinted Art Nouve decorations by Margaret Armstrong.The lovely green cloth has black, maroon, white and gold gilt illustration which is sharp and clean as is the lovely design of the spine panel. The only defect is some minute foxing on the half title page which is lightly mirroed to the verso of the endsheet and some minute foxing on the blank last page in the book which is lightly mirrored to the verso of the back endsheet. A lovely production.

Seller: Ira Joel Haber - Cinemage Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1901.

Price: US$4800.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Paul Laurence Dunbar on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with elaborate stamping to upper board and spine; with title page in BAL State A, and a deposit copy thus; lacking the dust jacket, though remnants of the front panel remain laid in. Near Fine, with slight tarnishing to gilt on front cover, light rubbing to tips. Offsetting to endsheets. A beautiful copy. With photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and decorations by Margaret Armstrong.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Paul Laurence Dunbar; Margaret Armstrong (illustrator). Candle-Lightin' Time (First Edition). Dodd, Mead, New York, 1901.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.