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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BEADLE, SAMUEL ALFRED.
Lyrics of
the Underworld.
Frontispiece and 19 additional illustrations, including one that has been
tinted, possibly by the author of his son
WITH ORIGINAL TYPEWRITTEN MATERIAL TIPPED IN
AND LOOSELY LAID IN
. 150 pages. 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in black on the upper
cover; very light wear.
Jackson, MS: S.A. Beadle, 1925
[600/900]
A UNIQUE COPY OF A SCARCE BOOK
,
WITH SEVEN POEMS ON
14
TYPED PAGES
,
AND A WARM
PRESENTATION TO MRS
.
EFFIE L
.
CAHILL
.
One of the poems, “Lines to Effie Dean Threet,” hints
at a love affair gone wrong with Mrs. Cahill before she was married. Some of the lines are quite sug-
gestive: “Effie Dean Threet, thou wert to me divine in thy virginity as the rose/, or hyacinth or violet,
or those sweet essences of floral glory, fine rare, chaste—etherial (sic) as Fate’s design. . . .” Samuel
Alfred Beadle, Mississippi’s first African-American attorney, was born in Atlanta, GA in 1857.
After the War, his family moved to Mississippi, where he studied law, and eventually began his prac-
tice. He died in Chicago in 1932. Porter, page 10, French, Fabre and Singh, page 55.
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289
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY.
Lyrics of Life and Love.
Portrait fron-
tispiece of the poet. 80 pages. Tall narrow
8vo, original cloth backed paper-covered
boards with title within a gilt triangle on
the upper cover; very slight wear.
Boston: Herbert T. Turner, 1904
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION OF THE POET
’
S SCARCE FIRST
BOOK
, printed at his own expense, and sold
door to door by him. William Stanley
Braithwaite, (1878-1962) poet, editor, and
anthologist was responsible for the long series
of annual Anthologies of Magazine Verse
beginning in 1913 and unbroken until 1939.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
DU BOIS, W.E.B.
The Souls of Black
Folk.
8vo, original black cloth, lettered in
gilt. 364 pages. This “third edition” not
issued with the portrait frontispiece, how-
ever,
A VIRTUALLY PRISTINE COPY
.
Chicago: McClurg, 1903
[600/900]