Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Howdy Honey Howdy. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1905.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: Will Jenkins and Leigh Richmond Miner. First Edition. Not paginated. 8 3/4 x 5 15/16 inches. Publisher's tan cloth boards with gilt, black, and light grey decorations plus photographic onlay. Top edges gilt. Spotting to endpapers (apparently as normal). A nice copy noting some rubbing to the spine decorations and minor rubbing to the photographic onlay. Otherwise bright and clean throughout, illustrated with photographs. Cloth. Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. Decorations by Will Jenkins. "Paul Laurence Dunbar was born on June 27, 1872, to two formerly enslaved people from Kentucky. He became one of the first influential Black poets in American literature and was internationally acclaimed for his dialect verse in collections such as Majors and Minors (Hadley & Hadley, 1895) and Lyrics of Lowly Life (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1896). The dialect poems constitute only a small portion of Dunbar's canon, which is replete with novels, short stories, essays, and many poems. In its entirety, Dunbar's literary body is regarded as an impressive representation of Black life in the turn-of-the-century United States.He died February 9, 1906, at age 33." (Poetry Foundation website) "Leigh Richmond Miner (1864-1935) was a photographer in the United States. He was the principal photographer at Hampton Institute and his work appeared throughout the school's extensive publications and publicity materials during the first three decades of the twentieth century.As a member of the Hampton Institute Camera Club, his photographs illustrated five of Paul Laurence Dunbar's six books of poetry illustrated with photographs. Miner illustrated the last three books in the series individually while running a photography studio in Yonkers, NY during an leave from the school in 1904-07. Based upon these images alone, he ranks among the most published photographers of images of African Americans." (Wikipedia).

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