'Weh Down Souf and Other Poems
Cleveland: Helman-Taylor Company, 1897.
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Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by William L. Sheppard. Cover design by Elizabeth Geary. Octavo. Glossary of dialect terms. Green pictorial cloth stamped in yellow, brown, orange, dark green, and black. A beautiful, fine copy of the scarce second book by this African-American poet who was a teacher and later a Baptist preacher in Virginia. Forty poems on religion and racial themes, some in dialect. An unusually nice copy. *French* p.59.
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