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Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Olive cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. 1st edition, matching dates. Mild shelf wear, a bit rubbed at corners and spine extremities. Very slight dampstaining/spotting at upper front cover through portions of title, barely worth mentioning. Mild moisture contact along bottom edge has resulted in dye lightening at bottom front binding corner and along a portion of bottom rear edge, a relatively minor cosmetic distraction. [ix],309 pp., illus. Text block edges are a bit dulled by age, interior nicely intact, with slight soiling to front endpapers and very slight foxing to the first several leaves, otherwise clean. Firm, square binding. Quite respectably preserved copy, strong VG, among Dunbar's scarcer works. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Heart of Happy Hollow by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was one of the first African-Americans to receive national acclaim as a poet. First edition published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1904. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. Olive green cover with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Impression of three banjoes on the front cover. Book is tight, clean and unmarked.
Seller: Russell Street Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Heart of Happy Hollow. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Heart of Happy Hollow by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was one of the first African-Americans to receive national acclaim as a poet. First edition published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1904. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. Olive green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Impression of three banjoes on the front cover. Book is tight, clean and unmarked. About as good as it gets for anything 120 years old.
Seller: Russell Street Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Publisher's decorated green cloth over boards, gilt lettering at front cover and spine, gilt top edge, designed by Margaret Armstrong with light green stamped orange and cream art nouveau floral designs, 65 photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner of the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. 8vo, 8.25 inches tall; 123 pages with indexes of First Lines and Titles. A lovely collectable copy. First publication of the poems 'The Plantation Child's Lullaby', 'Blue', 'Charity', and 'Curiosity'. Ref: BAL 4951. Authentic-feeling Southern dialect of an earlier day. Background Information: One of the first influential Black poets in American literature and was internationally acclaimed for his dialectic verse. Dunbar's literary body is regarded as an impressive representation of Black life in turn-of-the-century America. "Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first African American poet in the United States to show a combined mastery over poetic material and poetic technique, to reveal innate literary distinction in what he wrote, and to maintain a high level of performance. He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. He was the first to see objectively its humor, its superstitions, its short-comings; the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds, its yearnings, its aspirations, and to voice them all in a purely literary form." [Johnson, Book of American Poetry]
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA- FABA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.