DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. Chapman and Hall, London, 1897.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First English edition. Introduction by William Dean Howells. Green cloth gilt. A little offsetting on the front fly, corners a little bumped, near fine. Signed by Paul Laurence Dunbar, under which is written in another hand: "(The Author's Autograph) July 25, 1897. Oliver Morland with love from his old friends July N. & P. Impey. July 1897." Uncommon English edition of the author's first commercially published book, and his first book to be published in Great Britain. Oliver Morland was an author and the president of the London publisher Morland & Impey, Paul Impey was his Quaker business partner. This edition rarely found signed, this with an interesting association.

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