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Dunbar, Paul L.. Folks from Dixie. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1898.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Covers have heavy wear, rubbing, chipping and soil. Corners and ends of spine heavily bumped. Binding tight. 263 pages. Fictional stories from down south before the turn of the century with lots of local dialect, color frontispiece and 7 black and white sketch illustrations. Size: 5 x 7.25
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
Paul L. Dunbar. Folks from Dixie. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1898.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. In brown cloth covers with pasteon illustration on front cover and stamped gilt lettering and gilt embossed flowers. Stamped gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Colored frontispiece and 7 illustrations throughout text. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages, except for insciption on front free endpaper. Bumping of ends of spine. Light to moderate shelf wear. Photos upon request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Quaker House Books, Catawissa, PA, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Folks From Dixie.. Dodd, Mead & Co, NY, 1898.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light rubbing at corners, some pages have a slight stain across the bottom edge - a bright tight copy. ; 12mo; Pictorial gilt brown cloth designed by G.W.E., gilt spine title with black ornamention, mounted illustration with ornate gilt title within black frame on front board, [9], 263p., 8 illustrations by E.W. Kemble, some in color. **BAL 4921. Wright III-168
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul L.. Folks From Dixie. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1898.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 12mo. Crimson, cloth binding with stamped, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Illustration of a man to front cover. Black bands to front cover and spine. Gilt top edge. Newsclipping to front pastedown about the bride of the author. Former owner signature to front endpage. Very Good. Minor soiling to covers. Slight rubbing to spine head and tail. Corners bumped.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. Folks From Dixie. Dodd, Mead, 1898.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dodd Mead, New York, 1898. Hardcover, 263 pp. Short story collection, illustrated by E. W. Kemble. Gold titles, inset illustration on cover. Gilded head of text block. Very good condition. Illustration on front board slightly rubbed, with small condensation stains. Binding is solid. Margin stains on pages 6-7. Interior is otherwise clean. No jacket.
Seller: Randall's Books, Cathedral City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. [xii], 263 pp. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black with pictorial inset on front cover, gilt topstain. Very Good with stain spots to front board, light reading wear, slightly bumped corners. A collection of short stories.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Folks from Dixie. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1898.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Minor shelfwear, a bit of edgewear at spine head and foot, corners. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper (dated 1898) ; Near Fine. Brown cloth with paste-down illustration, gilt and black embossed titles and floral designs, and gilt top edge. Binding is tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. A handsome copy; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 263 p.
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Folks from Dixie. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1898.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Brown cloth stamped in gilt with pictorial insert on front cover. Owner's inscription dated "Xmas 1899" on front flyleaf, rear hinge neatly restored, and light wear at tips of spine, with none of the usual rubbing to the paper onlay, a very good or better copy of this collection of dialect tales.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. Folks From Dixie. Dodd Mead & Co., New York, 1898.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1898. Octavo, eight inserted plates with illustrations, two in color, by E. W. Kemble, title page printed in red and black, original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black and gold, small illustration pasted to front cover. First edition. The author's first book of fiction, preceded by three books of poetry. BAL 4921. Wright (III) 1668, signed lightly in pencil by a period owner, but neat, inner hinge a tad loose, with top edge gilt, else a near fine, very bright exceptional copy of a book hard to find in fine condition.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Folks From Dixie. Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1898.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 263 pages. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by E. W. Kimble. His fourth book and first book of fiction. An almost fine book with just a touch of rubbing to the corners. All the gilt and color is present and bright on the front cover and the spine. No dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: [10],263pp. Frontis and 7 plates. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt and black, pictorial onlay on upper cover. Light rubbing at head and toe of spine, otherwise a very nice, bright copy, near fine. First edition of the author's first prose collection. A book often seen in second rate condition. BAL 4921. WRIGHT III:1668.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.