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1 Paul Laurence Dunbar Between the Covers

2 Between the Covers Rare Books, inc. 112 Nicholson Road (856) Gloucester City, NJ Fax (856) Paul Laurence Dunbar A selection of books by and related to the poet The books in this list (and similar items) can be found on our website by searching for Dunbar in the Author or Title Search field on the right side of our banner. You can also view these books individually by typing in each book s BTC Product ID into the search field of our Advanced Search page. The BTC Product ID is the number shown in this catalogue at the end of each book s description and before its price. For example, the BTC Product ID for the first book in this list is Also please note that full COLOR illustrations of every item in our inventory can be viewed on our website. Terms of Sale All books are First Editions unless otherwise noted. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or . Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and DISCOVER. N.J. residents please add 7% sales tax. Please include $5.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items are insured. All items subject to prior sale. Members ABAA, ILAB Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

3 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Majors and Minors. (Toledo): (Hadley & Hadley) (1895). First edition. Grey-blue cloth, with beveled boards (as called for by Blanck), titled in black on the front board. The fragile front endpaper, which has a couple of edge chips, has been professionally re-attached, some light staining at the bottom of the front board, a nice and presentable, very good copy of the author's rare second book, one of only 1000 copies printed, and like his first, self-published by the author. An exceptionally scarce book. *BAL* # $3,000 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada First edition, variant issue. Introduction by William Dean Howells. Publisher's file copy with bookplate on the front pastedown, small paper label on the spine, some fraying to the spine ends. An about good copy. The author's first commercially published book, this is a scarce variant, probably published simultaneous with, or very soon after, the first edition. The contents of the book seem identical to the first edition, but bound different, and with the publisher's name stamped on the spine. *BAL* makes no mention of this issue. *OCLC* locates seven copies (erronyously dated 1895). A not lovely, but very uncommon variant. # $350 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. London: Chapman and Hall First English edition. Introduction by William Dean Howells. A little foxing to the endpapers else a fine and tight copy of the uncommon English edition of the author's first commercially published book, and his first book to be published in Great Britain. # $350

4 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company Early reprint. Introduction by William Dean Howells. Owner name front fly, and an attractive calling card presenting the book on the front pastedown, an especially fresh, very near fine copy of the author's first commercially published book. # $90 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company Later printing. 16mo. Green cloth, top edge gilt. Very good minus. Page 135 has two large tears. Spine and top edge of cover darkened. Spine ends worn. # $35 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Uncalled. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition, binding "A," with the author's name spelled incorrectly. The gilt on the front board a trifle rubbed, else a nice, very near fine copy. The author's first novel and one of his scarcer titles. # $650 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Uncalled. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition, binding "B", with the author's first name spelled correctly. A bit cocked else a very good or better copy with the lettering and decoration largely unrubbed. Author's first novel and one of his scarcer titles. # $300

5 DUNBAR, Laurence. The Uncalled. New York: Int'l Assoc. of Newspapers Later printing. 255pp. Glue stain to the rear endpaper, ends of the spine very lightly worn, else near fine without dustwrapper. # $65 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of the Hearthside. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Some foxing to the first and last few leaves, as well as some moderate foxing to the boards else a nice, near fine copy with the spine gilt bright and unworn. A scarce title which includes many gems such as his immortal poem "Sympathy," about Dunbar's stint as an elevator operator and from whence comes the title of Maya Angelou's first book, *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*. # $300 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of the Hearthside. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Top of the spine worn down nearly to the text block, else a very good copy. A scarce title which includes many gems such as his immortal poem "Sympathy," about Dunbar's stint as an elevator operator and from whence comes the title of Maya Angelou's first book, *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*. # $125

6 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Poems of Cabin and Field. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorations by Alice Morse. Small early bookplate, spine and upper extremities of the boards a bit sunned, else a tight and near fine copy. # $350 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Poems of Cabin and Field. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company Early reprint. Frontispiece and photographic illustrations by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Tiny contemporary gift inscription, and very slight fading to the spine still a fine, tight copy of this book generally found in ill repair because of the heavy, coated paper. A lovely copy. # $150

7 DUNBAR, Alice. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Green cloth stamped in silver and black. Triangular chip to the corner of page 23, just about touching the page number else fine. Charming contemporary gift inscription commemorating "our visit to Saint Rocque's Chapel..." A lovely copy of the author's second book, the first after a privately printed volume of prose and poetry, and the book which established her reputation. Set in New Orleans, these stories are in some ways reminiscent in the setting and bleak tone to the work of Kate Chopin, another New Orleans writer who was her contemporary. Although perhaps better known for her later sonnets, this book was the first work of short stories to be published by an African-American woman. Publicly, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson was overshadowed by the book's dedicatee, Paul Laurence Dunbar, with whom she shared a short ( ) and tempestuous marriage. But she continued to write and lecture long after his death, creating *The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer*, the first volume produced for black students made up exclusively of recitation by black authors and speakers. Later, her reviews of Harlem Renaissance writers were an influential contribution to that era. A beautiful copy of a landmark work in African-American literary history. *OCLC* lists no copies of the first edition in American libraries. # $3,750 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Love of Landry. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. The white painted decorations on the spine are rubbed, but retain some color, a very good plus copy in better than usual condition. One of the author's scarcest novels. # $450

8 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Strength of Gideon. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Lacks free front endpaper else about fine. A very uncommon collection of short stories. # $200 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Strength of Gideon. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company Early reprint. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Contemporary owner name, modest wear at the spine ends, a bright and fresh, near fine copy. A very uncommon reprint of this collection of short stories. # $225 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. CandleLightin' Time. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Neat, early gift inscription, and the corners are slightly bumped, else an unusually fine copy, lacking the rare dustwrapper. The books printed in this format are relatively common, but very scarce in this condition, as the glossy paper proved too heavy for the fragile bindings. A lovely copy. # $300

9 STANFORD, Rev. P. Thomas. The Tragedy of the Negro in America: A Condensed History of the Enslavement, Sufferings, Emancipation, Present Condition and Progress of the Negro Race in the United States of America. North Cambridge: The Author ( but more likely 1901). Second edition, Tenth Thousand, revised and updated. 253pp. Frontispiece portrait, illustrations, facsimiles. Blue cloth, spine gilt and elaborate gilt illustration of "The Negro and His Heavy Burden" (i.e. carrying the world on his shoulders) on the front board. Small bump at the top and bottom of the front board, and a couple of spots on the rear board, else a nice and tight, about fine copy. This edition includes an appendix reprinting several articles (the latest from 1900), as well as a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar: "W'en I Gits Home," neither of which are in the first edition. # $375 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Jest of Fate. London: Jarrold & Sons First English edition, published in America as *The Sport of the Gods*. Ownership Signature of the author's half-brother, William L. Murphy, on the front pastedown, corners a little bumped, some slight discoloration at the base of the spine, still a handsome and sound, very good or better copy. A nice association copy of this exceptionally uncommon title. # $1,500 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence, words; and Will Marion Cook, Music. Returned: A Negro Ballad as sung by Miss Abbie Mitchell at Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's Newport Theatre Party. New York: Music Supplement of the New York American and Journal September 21, First edition. One sheet folded to make four folio pages. Pages browned, modest chip to one corner, an attractive, very good plus copy. Sheet music from Dunbar and Cook's operetta *In Dahomey*. # $500

10 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence and E.P. Moran, words, music by Will Marion Cook. "Evah Dahkey Is a King". New York: Music Supplement of the New York American and Journal October 26, First edition. One sheet folded to make four folio pages. Pages browned, small chip to one corner, an attractive, very good plus copy. Sheet music from Dunbar and Cook's operetta *In Dahomey*. # $450 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. In Old Plantation Days. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition, *BAL* binding A. A small hole rubbed in the front fly, probably from an erasure, else near fine with the gilt lettering bright and the applied front board illustration barely worn. One of the author's scarcer titles, a novel, when found usually well worn. This is a lovely copy. # $500 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Love and Laughter. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Very light rubbing and a couple of tiny dents to the foredge still a nice, about fine copy. A collection that encompasses the poems that were originally published in his first two books, *Oak and Ivy* and *Majors and Minors*, with the addition of eleven new poems. This copy Inscribed by the author to his mother, Matilda Dunbar: "To Ma With her son's love." Matilda Dunbar was the dedicatee of each of her son's first two books, and while she is not here so named, one is hard pressed to imagine a better association than the one between the author and the mother who taught him to read, write and appreciate poetry. As nice a copy as one could hope to own. # $7,500

11 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Love and Laughter. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Light wear at the spine ends, and some sunning to the boards. A very good or a little better copy. # $125 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Love and Laughter. NY: Dodd, Mead And Co First edition. Very good with moderate rubbing, and a half inch tear to the spine. # $75 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. When Malindy Sings. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Frontispiece and photographic illustrations by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Neat gift inscription front fly, top of the spine a little worn, a tight, very good or a little better copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. # $275 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Li'l' Gal. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Illustrated after photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner of the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Contemporary gift inscription and slight rubbing to the boards, but a pleasing and tight, near fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A nicer than usual copy. # $375

12 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Heart of Happy Hollow. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Slight rubbing at the corners of the spine else a bright, near fine copy of one of the author's less common titles. # $400 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Chris'mus' Is A' Comin' & Other Poems. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1905). First edition. Stiff selfwrappers. Modest stain on the front fly, else near fine in a somewhat tattered, good example of the rare original unprinted glassine dustwrapper with a stain on the rear panel. A very nice copy of this exceptionally uncommon little gift book. # $600 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Howdy Honey Howdy. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. Decorations by Will Jenkins. Contemporary owner name, a bit of rubbing to the boards, still an unusually fresh and bright, near fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. # $400 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Joggin' Erlong. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Illustrated with photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. Decorations by John Rae. Small, neat gift inscription, and a tiny ink note of Dunbar's death in February, 1906 on the title page, else an unusually tight and fine copy of one of the most difficult books of this series to find in nice condition. # $650

13 (DUNBAR, Paul Laurence) VENABLE, Emerson, edited by. Poets of Ohio: Selections Representing the Poetical Work of Ohio Authors from the Pioneer Period to the Present Day. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company (1909). First edition. 356pp. Ends of the spine lightly worn, else fine without dustwrapper. Contributors include Paul Laurence Dunbar. # $150 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Contemporary owner name, else a very good or better copy with some light wear at the extremities, lacking the rare dustwrapper. # $200 UNDERHILL, Irvin W. (Blind Verse Writer). Daddy's Love and Other Poems. Philadelphia: (A.M.E. Book Concern Printers) (1916). First edition. Modest wear to the edges of the boards, very faint offsetting on two facing pages, a very good plus copy. A rare volume of affirmative poetry written by a sometime canal boat pilot who lost his eyesight at age 37. Among the poems are "Elegy to Dr. Booker T. Washington," "To the Colored Soldiers," and "A Dream of Dunbar." *Catalogue of the Blockson Collection* # Not in *French* or *Work*. # $1,200

14 DUNBAR-NELSON, Alice Moore, editor. The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, Containing The Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and about the Negro Race, With Programs Arranged for Special Entertainments. Napierville IL: J.L. Nichols (1920). First edition. 288pp, frontispiece portrait, illustrations. Introduction by Leslie Pinckney Hill. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a little fading at the spine and a couple of modest chips at the corners of the crown. Oratorical, poetic, dramatic and humorous pieces compiled from many sources including the work of Dunbar-Nelson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charlotte Grimké, W.S. Braithwaite, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, Phillis Wheatley, W.E.B. Du Bois and many others. The New Orleans-born Dunbar-Nelson was for a time the wife of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and was in her own right an author, feminist, suffragist, public speaker, and educator. The only copy we have seen or heard of for sale in the very rare dustwrapper. # $5,000 (Anthology) WHITE, Newman Ivey and Walter Clinton Jackson. An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes. Durham: Trinity College Press First edition. 250pp. Fine, without dustwrapper, probably as issued. An early survey of African-American poetry including selections by Phillis Wheatley, George Moses Horton, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune, William Stanley Braithwaite, Benjamin Brawley, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Claude McKay, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Countee Cullen and several lesser known poets. Prepared in 1921 by two white Southern scholars, this pre-renaissance anthology influenced later scholars and writers, but is itself rarely encountered today. # $375

15 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. [Commemorative Souvenir]: June 1872 June 27, 1924 The 52nd Anniversary of the Late Paul Laurence Dunbar. [Dayton, Ohio: Mrs. Matilda Dunbar] First edition. Picture card, as issued by Mrs. Matilda Dunbar, mother of the poet. Consists of three portrait photos of Dunbar, his mother, and the Dunbar Homestead, with six lines of Dunbar's verse. Approximately 7.5" x 4.5". One small tear, else near fine. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates no copies. # $400 (Anthology) CULLEN, Countee, editor. Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets. New York: Harper First edition. Fine in an attractive, about very good Aaron Douglas illustrated dustwrapper that is a bit spine-tanned and has some modest chipping at the extremities, mostly on the rear panel. A nice copy of this important anthology. The contributors represent a who's-who of early 20th Century African-American poets including: Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Grimke, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, W.E.B. Du Bois, Arna Bontemps, Cuning Waring, and many more. # $450 (Anthology). Stories of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina (1931). First edition. Edited by Addison Hibbard. Scattered light foxing to the foredge and the first couple pages else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny nick. A lovely copy of this representative selection of stories evoking the old South. Contributors include Joel Chandler Harris, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, George W. Cable, William Gilmore Simms, Julia Peterkin, DuBose Heyward, Paul Green, Lyle Saxon, Benjamin Brawley, and others. # $100

16 (Anthology) JOHNSON, James Weldon, editor. The Book of American Negro Poetry chosen and edited by, with an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius by James Weldon Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1931). Revised and enlarged edition with a new preface by Johnson. Pencil name else fine lacking the dustwrapper. Important collection with contributions by virtually every important black poet of the time including: Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois,Claude McKay, Jessie Fauset, Ray Garfield Dandridge, Countee Cullen, WaringCuney, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Edward Smyth Jones, Fenton Johnson, W.S. Braithwaite, Georgia Douglas Johnson and many more. This collection, when compared to the earlier edition exhibits some of the maturation of the generation that developed during the Harlem Renaissance. # $125 (Music) JONES, Louia Vaughn (Joseph Douglass). Photograph Inscribed to fellow violinist Joseph Douglass. :. Photograph. Approximately 8" x 10". Stamped "Electric Studio" on verso. A full-length portrait of the AfricanAmerican violinist playing. Inscribed in the lower right corner: "To Mr. Joseph Douglass, One who has been a pioneer and an inspiration to this generation of Negro violinists. Very sincerely, Louia Vaughn Jones 1931." Pinhole at the top margin, light edgewear, near fine, Jones' signature is a little rubbed. Jones was one of the earlier black violin soloists, taught at Howard, and accompanied the diva Sylvia Olden Lee when she sang at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Presidential inauguration. Joseph Douglass was the favorite grandson of Frederick Douglass (himself an amateur violinist). Joseph went on to a successful career as a violin soloist, as this inscription would testify, and accompanied Paul Laurence Dunbar on a tour that blended music and poetry. # $500

17 (DUNBAR, Paul Laurence) BRAWLEY, Benjamin. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet of His People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some light nicking at the extremities. Nicely and boldly Inscribed by the author: "To Richard Hurst Hill from his friend Benjamin Brawley. Washington, D.C., Nov. 28, 1936." The Rev. Richard Hurst Hill was the pastor of the Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta where he was known for his mercifully brief, but brilliant sermons. He later left to become Special Assistant to the President of Howard University where he corresponded with Mahatma Gandhi. An important biography, one that helped to cement Dunbar's place in mainstream literature. The first edition consisted of only 2000 copies. A nice copy, with a nice association. # $750 BRAWLEY, Benjamin. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet of His People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. An important biography, one that helped to cement Dunbar's place in mainstream literature. The first edition consisted of only 2000 copies. A nice copy. # $100 DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. Illustrated by Metego Sohan. A Cabin Tale. San Francisco: Julian Richardson Associates (1969). First edition published separately under this title, and with these illustrations. Stapled wrappers. 28pp. Introduction by Welvin Stroud. Slight offsetting to the wrappers, and an old, tiny ink price on the first leaf, else about fine. A narrative poem about a big bear, a small weasel, and a farmer. with illustrations by a young African-American artist. Very scarce. # $125

18 (African American) FULLER, Sara S.. The Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection: An Inventory to the Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society First edition. Slightly faded and lightly soiled, else near fine in stapled wrappers. # $30 MARTIN, Jay, editor. A Singer in the Dawn: Reinterpretations of Paul Laurence Dunbar. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1975). First edition. Fine in price-clipped and rubbed, very good or better dustwrapper. # $65 (African American) DUNBAR, Paul Laurence. A Toast to Dayton. Dayton, OH: Carillon Historical Park's 1930's Print Shop (1995). Broadside. 7 3/4" by 10". Fine in fine envelope for the "Dunbar Community Festival June 24 and 25, 1995." # $20

19 (DUNBAR, Paul Laurence). The Staff of Quill and Brush, Inc.. Bibliography, First Edition and Price Guide (APG - Author's Price Guide Series). Dickerson, MD: Quill & Brush (current) edition. 7 page bibliography and price-guide. A thorough guide to identifying and collecting first editions, advance copies, limited editions, etc. The AUTHOR PRICE GUIDES (APGs) include a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; an up-to-date list of the author's first editions (American and British) with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies printed (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values. You can view the Instructions For Use (also included with your order), which shows a sample listing and complete instructions for identifying first editions of the author's works, at com/private/article_images/instructionsforuse.pdf # $6.75

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