In Old Plantation Days
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903.
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Hardcover. First edition, *BAL* binding A. Brown cloth titled in gilt and stamped in black and green, with applied paper illustration. Contemporary, neat owner name on the front fly, a bit of spotting at the top of the spine and on the edge of the rear board, else a nice, near fine copy with the gilt lettering bright and the applied illustration on the front board unrubbed. One of the author's scarcer titles, a novel, when found is usually well worn. A bright and better than usual copy.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
birth name: Paul Laurence Dunbar
born: 6/27/1872
died: 2/9/1906
nationality: USA
Biography
American author whose reputation rests upon his verse and short stories written in black dialect. He was the first black writer in the United States to attempt to support himself by writing and one of the first to attain national prominence. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature [As important as Dunbar was, the claim that he was the first black writer in the U.S. to attempt to support himself by writing ignores several journalists, as well as the much earlier poet George Moses Horton, and perhaps other fascinating and lesser known figures. - BTC]more