New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Hampton Institute Camera Club. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Binding and hinges sound. Pages clean, off-white. Cloth over boards is faded in on spine and at top with gilt lettering, colorful design. Similar lettering and design on spine are darkened. Bumped corners, general shelf wear. Collection of eight of Dunbar's poems, presented in "Negro dialect": The Deserted Plantation, Hunting Song, Little Brown Baby, Chris'mus is a-Comin', Signs of the Times, Time to Tinker 'Round, Lullaby, A Banjo Song. Pages decorated by Alice Morse, whom he married in 1898. ; Ex-Library; Photographs; 8.75" tall; 125 pages.

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Seller: Cat's Cradle Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 4050044
Title: Poems of Cabin and Field
Author: Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Illustrator: Illustrated by Hampton Institute Camera Club
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Dodd Mead & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1899
Keywords: UNITED STATES, AMERICA, AFRICAN AMERICAN, LITERATURE, POETRY, POEM
Bookseller catalogs: Americana;

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