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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1901. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good/None. B&W Photographs. 8vo (8 3/4" x 6"), original publisher's decorative green cloth with Art Nouveau panel on front cover with beautifully stylized golden moon and nine tri-lobed white flowers; illustrated with warm photographs of black life by the Hampton Institute Camera Club: B&W photographic frontispiece and 45 half-tone plates (several full-page & others one-third page) within decorative borders by Margaret Armstong--facing Paul Dunbar's poetic interpretations; 127 pages. No dust jacket. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906) was the son of two former Kentucky slaves (one being a father who managed to escape and joined the Union Army). Young Dunbar was raised and went to school in Dayton, Ohio. He became--almost uniquely in the dismal era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow--a black American poet, novelist, and playwright. <br/> <br/> Known early in his… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead 7 Co, 1901. First Edition. Gift inscription dated 1901; ownership stamp on front pastedown; lightly shelf-rubbed, else bright and near fine. 8vo, 127pp; decorative green cloth printed in gilt and three colors. A nice copy of this volume from Dunbar's important late series of books featuring Hampton Institute photographs. This copy is offered together with a copy of another volume in the sequence: Poems of Cabin and Field, albeit one from which the title page has been neatly excised, rendering impossible the determination of edition. The photographs cntained in these volumes comprise an important contrbution both to the history of photography and the representation of Black life at the end of the nineteenth century. Both volumes are from the library of photographer and photo-theorist Allan Sekula, with his ownership stamp in each.