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Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of the Hearthside. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$39.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. First edition [1899] of this book of poems by this noted African-American poet - in unfortunate condition. Green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, frontis portrait of the poet with facimile signature beneath, 227 pages. Covers badly spotted and stained, spine very darkened, rear hinge lightly cracked, text block sound, pages age-toned with dampstains to the first few pages, name and date on front free endpaper, smoky odor. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Paul Laurence Dunbar.. LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE.. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1899.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo, original cloth, frontis., 227pp. T.E.G. Ex-lib. with typical provenance markings. BAL 4925. A good+ copy only.
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of the Hearthside. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Duodecimo, original gilt decorated green cloth over boards with gilt top edge. Collection of poems with a black and white plate frontispiece of the author. Very good, except for a damp stain at the fore edge not affecting text, spine ends bumped, no dust jacket. BAL 4925.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early Edition (first was published in 1896). 12mo, original green cloth over boards, decorated in gilt, gilt top edge, black and white plate frontispiece. Poetry collection. Very Good, light shelf wear, slight fading to spine.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. Lyrics of a Lowly Life. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. xx, 208. Introduction by William Dean Howells. First published in 1896. Dunbar was both admired and criticized for his dialect verse, about 1/3 of his output during his short life. A good copy in cloth boards with an Art Nouveau design by Alice Cordelia Morse. Spine ends worn; cloth sunned; inner hinges slightly cracked.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of the Hearthside.. New York Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899, 1899.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Portrait frontispiece; x and 227 pp. 12mo, green cloth, two-inch separation over front hinge; spine faded; top inner back corner faded; several leaves carelessly opened; very few leaves with small marginal tears, not affecting text; top edge gilt. BAL 4925
Seller: Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books, A.B.A.A., Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of the Hearthside. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1899.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine is sun darkened and rubbed. It appears that the front inner hinge has been repaired preventing the free endpaper from opening fully. Owner's bookplate. One page creased from dog-earing and a few stray small bits of soiling internally. Still a nice copy. ; 16mo
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of the Hearthside. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small hardcover. 227 pages. A small volume of poetry from this important and early African American writer. A very good copy in gilt decorated cloth boards with top edge gilt and with some very minor wear to the spine ends and with the front hinge starting. No dust jacket. A very nice copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE. Dodd Mead, 1899.
Price: US$156.60 + shipping
Description: LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE, Dodd Mead, 1899, first edition, faint moisture stain to a small area of the upper foredge corner of the first two leaves, else a vg+ copy in the publishers original cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering and design.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of the Hearthside. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1899.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 12mo. Corners a bit bumped and rubbed, small stain on front board, a tight and pleasing very good or better copy. A scarce title which includes many gems such as his immortal poem "Sympathy," about Dunbar's stint as an elevator operator and from whence came the title of Maya Angelou's first book, *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE. , 1899.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899. Original olive-green cloth decorated and embossed in gilt. First Edition of this early title by this African-American poet whose parents, before they met, had both been Kentucky slaves; his father escaped to Canada, and wound up fighting in the Civil War for the Massachusetts 55th Regiment; his mother escaped to Ohio. Dunbar was born and raised in Dayton, where at Central High School (Class of 1890) he would be the only black student, the president of the literary society, and the editor of the school newspaper; one of his classmates was Orville Wright who, shortly after his mother died, would drop out of school before graduating -- to devote time to his fledgling printing business, and then (1892) to his and brother Wilbur's new bicycle business. Dunbar's first book (published as a favor by Orville's father) came out in 1893; by the time this book came out, he was already ill with the tuberculosis that would claim his life seven years later, at age 33. As with many of his books, some of the verse is in proper English -- for which Dunbar wished he would be known -- and some is in "black dialect" -- for which he was widely known and praised. One of the former type is "Sympathy," which ends with the line "I know why the caged bird sings!" -- from which came (many decades later) the title of Maya Angelou's first book. Despite his intellect, Dunbar's race dictated that he could find work only as an elevator operator (where he tried to sell his volumes of verse to passengers); in this line he was referring to himself in his elevator cage. Included is a frontispiece photograph of the poet; the binding design, in matte and embossed gilt, is by Alice Morse (so initialed). This copy is in near-fine condition (minor rubbing at the extremities, spine gilt less than bright, Christmas 1907 endpaper inscription). Blanck 4925.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.