Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Love of Landry. Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, 1900.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth, white lettering, edges rubbed. Cracked inside at spine. FER
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. THE LOVE OF LANDRY. Dodd, Mead, NY, 1900.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. 200. Some worn green cloth stamped in silver.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Love of Landry. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1900.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 200 pp. Front free endpaper pasted down to cover. Green cloth binding with white flowers and lettering. Ex-Library, with former owner's bookplate present. Overall, in good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair condition. Two newspaper clippings laid in. Ink note written on front endpaper. Hinges repaired. Spine tips and cover corners are bumped and worn. Cover edges are rubbed. Front cover lettering is dull. Back cover is rubbed. 200 pages.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Love of Landry. Dodd Mead & Co., NY, 1900.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: the white in the letters for the publisher's name and flowers have worn off the otherwise bright spine, very slightly cocked
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo; Fair-; Hardcover; Spine, brown with white print; Boards in brown cloth with white print, wear to spine caps and corners, tattering to spine head, insect damage on rear; Text block has spotting to endpapers, light occasional foxing, insect damage to rear pages; 200 pages. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1366085. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Love of Landry. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1900.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early reprint edition. Green cloth stamped in silver and dark blue. Faint stain on front board and topedge, rear signature a little sprung, a good copy. An early edition of one of the author's scarcer novels.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Love of Landry. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1900.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 200p. Original green cloth. 18 cm. White lettering (publisher's name) chipped off at base of backstrip and partially chipped off front cover lettering. Spine moderately sloped. Minor cover cpotting. Corners creased on a couple of leaves. No Jacket. The second of Dunbar's four novels. Mildred, his white heroine, is sent to Colorado on the recommendation of her the family doctor to get rid of her cough -- Dunbar, already suffering from TB, had gone to Colorado briefly in 1900. Mildred, unlike Dunbar, finds health and also happiness (romance). The book was poorly reviewed and did not sell well.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Love of Landry. Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1900.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 200 pages. First edition, first printing. His second novel which portrayed white people and was not as well received as his writing in dialect. Very good book with slight rubbing to the corners and some loss of white lettering to the spine and front cover. A very nice copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The LOVE of LANDRY. Dodd Mead and Company, New York, 1900.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. THE LOVE OF LANDRY. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1900.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [vi], 200p. Green cloth with titles and decorative designs in lighter green and white. Quite scarce. About 1/3 of the white on the covers rubbed off, all else VG
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 362 pages with plates including frontispiece. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with pictorial front cover and spine, lettering in gilt. First edition. 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 on February 9, 1906 from tuberculosis, and was interred in the Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. Condition: Corners bumped and gently rubbed, some rubbing to spine points, book plate on front paste down, lig
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.