Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Uncalled. International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901.
Price: US$5.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Ozark Relics and Rarities, Seneca, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Reprint. 12mo. volume bound in gray pictorial cloth. Condition: lower corner of pp. 3/4 torn away with some loss of text; minor soiling to binding; else fair. 255 pages.
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Uncalled: a novel. International Association, New York, 1901.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: 6000 shelf. Heavily soiled pictorial beige buckram w/ leaf & berry motif in red-orange. Small stamped name verso front cover. Clean text. No dust jacket. 255+ pgs 255 p.
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light Edgewear. Moderate Soiling. Lightly Bumped Corners. Inside Hinge Is Cracked Exposing Gauzelike Binding. Not A Very Pretty Copy But Is A Good Reading Copy.
Seller: Book Nook, Cadillac, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Description: 3 p. l., 255 p. 18 cm. Author's first novel
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. Spine is darkened. Some soiling on covers. Spine tips and cover corners are bumped and worn. Name and writing on front fly leaf. 255 pages plus ten pages of ads.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This the 1901 printing, NOT a modern reprint. Light wear to the binding. No distortion from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading. No dust jacket as issued.
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. THE UNCALLED. International Association of Newspapers and Authors, NY, 1901.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 255pp. Adverts by Dodd Mead & Company. Green cloth boards with decorations and title on spine and front board. Slightly sloping. Gift inscription on f.f.p. Board eges rubbed. Weak front and rear hinges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. Attractive early reprint of his first novel. A fresh tight VG+ copy in faintly soiled decorated cloth.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laur. The Uncalled. International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: (Originally published, 1898) Small book, brown cloth with blue title, design and plant illustration on front, 255 pages plus several pages of advertisements. Front cover is badly stained with little dark spots, three very tiny holes in front spine indentation near middle, exterior page edges also spotted and browned. Near Good.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Uncalled. International Association of New, 1901.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An early printing but not a first. Minor shelf/reading wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Uncalled. I.A.N.A., 1901.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: International Association of Newspapers and Authors, New York, 1901. Hardcover, 255 pp. Small format. This reprint copy would have beeen the more affordable option for buying this work in its day. Dunbar's first novel, first published by Dodd Mead in 1898. Very good, solid binding with light shelf wear at foot. Slight wrinkles at ends of spine, minor curling of lower corners. Clean and unmarked.
Seller: Randall's Books, Cathedral City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition by this publisher. 12mo. 255, [10] ads pp. Front cover very slight rubbed, else a near fine copy. This edition not in *BAL* who does note other reprints. Originally published in 1898 by Dodd, Mead; see *BAL* 4923.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 255+pp. Original brown cloth covers, lightly soiled and foxed. Corners bumped. Foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. THE UNCALLED. International Association of Newspapers and Authors, NY, 1901.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 255pp. Adverts by Dodd Mead & Company. Linen cloth with blue decorations with title on spine and front board. Slightly sloping. Gift inscription on f.f.p. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - Early reprint. Dunbar's first novel, originally published in 1898, and uncommon for its time in that he "crossed the colorline" to write about a white minister and the white woman who had raised him after the early death of his mother. 255 pp plus 10 pp of publisher's ads. Very good in tan cloth with light blue and black lettering and illustrations.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. THE UNCALLED. International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very nice copy, Hardcover. Very clean, front hinge has been repaired
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning wear and fraying to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked on the front pastedown page. This is author Dunbar's first novel. "Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 February 9, 1906) was an African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries." "Much of his more popular work in his lifetime was written in the Negro dialect associated with the antebellum South. His work was praised by William Dean Howells, a leading critic associated with the Harper's Weekly, and Dunbar was one of the first African-American writers to establish a national reputation." (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition or printing, presumably from the Dodd, Mead sheets, as their ads are bound in at end. His first novel, curiously, about whites. Grayish-tan cover with decorations and lettering in pale blue outlined in black. Few specks of foxing to covers and the barest wear on corners, otherwise bright and fine.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprint. Topedge lightly foxed, front cover with a small stain, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, very good. This edition not in *BAL* who does note other reprints. Originally published in 1898 by Dodd, Mead; see *BAL* 4923.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 255, [1], [4, ads]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dunbar as a novelist avoided the problems associated with negroes in his life time, this is clearly demonstrated in his first novel, The Uncalled, which to many was " a mediocre novel about whites." Dark Symphony Negro Literature in America p. 37. " This novel depicts an orphan boy who accepts the study of the ministry, but his inner spirit forces him to rebel against the bigotry of small town life." (Whiteman ). Whiteman, p. 21 Origninal gray cloth with tan and blue decorated title pasted down on front and spine, darkened else a very good copy 255, [1], [4, ads]pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Uncalled. International Association of Newspapers and Authors,, 1901.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo., tan cloth with pictorial front cover lettered in black; slightly rubbed. Reprinted from the 1898 first edition. A lovely copy.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: Reprint. 12mo (18cm). Grey cloth stamped in blue and black, with grey topstain; [vi],255,[9]pp; 9pp of publisher's ads at rear. A straight, handsome copy, lightly rubbed, scattered minor foxing: Very Good. Reprint of the author's first novel, first published in 1898. Dunbar (1872-1906) was a successful African-American poet and author.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition by this publisher. 12mo. 255, [10] ads pp. Neat contemporary owner's ink inscription on front flyleaf, else a near fine copy. This edition not in *BAL* who does note other reprints. Originally published in 1898 by Dodd, Mead; see *BAL* 4923.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.