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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) DUNBAR, PAUL LAWRENCE.
Majors
and Minors.
Frontispiece portrait of the poet. 148 pages. Small 8vo, original green cloth
with beveled edges; front joint started, but firm; clippings affixed at the end of the text,
between the rear endpaper and the paste-down, glued to the latter.
Toledo, OH, 1896
[1,500/2,500]
A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE OF DUNBAR
’
S SECOND BOOK
OF POETRY
.
It was William Dean Howells’ rave review that got Dunbar a contract with Dodd,
Mead publishers, bringing him into the main stream of American Literature and poetry.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) DUNBAR, PAUL LAWRENCE.
Lyrics of
the Hearthside.
Portrait frontispiece, 227 pages. Small 8vo original gilt decorated green-
ish gray cloth; top edge gilt; front hinge started; presentation from Frederick Douglass’
daughter-in-law to her cousin on the front free end-paper.
New York: Dodd Mead, 1899
[1,500/2,500]
A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY
,
INSCRIBED BY HELEN AMELIA LOGUEN WHO WAS MAR
-
RIED TO FREDERICK DOUGLASS
’
S SON LEWIS
:
“Haley G. Douglass from Aunt Amelia, May 29,
1900.” Haley George Douglass (1881-1965) was the son of Charles Remond Douglass and Laura
Antoinette Haley. The Remonds, Douglass’s and Loguens were all part of what one might consider
the black aristocracy of the day. The three families were all related by marriage.
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