Old Greenbottom Inn and Other Stories
(Lexington, Kentucky: The Author, 1906).
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Hardcover. First edition. 210pp. An old library bookplate and embossed seal, a short tear on the margin of two pages, else a nice, near fine copy. A rare, self-published collection of short stories. According to Maxwell Whiteman in *A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952*, it was the only book of fiction published by an African-American in 1906. McClellan was one of the primary African-American poets of Dunbar's generation, noted particularly for his 1916 collection *The Path of Dreams*. *Whiteman* p.35, *Work* p.464, not in the *Catalogue of the Blockson Collection*.
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