Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Professor John Wesley Gilbert. Octavo. 230pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of the author and another captioned: "The Boy Preacher, at the age of twelve." Decorative red cloth stamped in gilt. Near fine with a few spots on the spine, light wear at the corners and a small dampstain on the lower text block affecting the very edge of a few pages. The uncommon first book by Reverend Charles Roundtree Dinkins, a collection of more than 100 religious and secular poems, some addressing the problem of race in the South.

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