IN OLD PLANTATION DAYS ...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. Octavo, ten inserted plates with illustrations by Martin Justice, original pictorial brown cloth stamped in green, black and gold, color illustration pasted to front cover. First edition. A collection of short fiction. In the book of AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY (1922) Dunbar's friend James Weldon Johnson wrote - "Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery over poetic material and poetic technique, to reveal innate literary distinction in what he wrote, and to maintain a high level of performance. He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. He was the first to see objectively its humor, its superstitions, its short-comings; the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds, its yearnings, its aspirations, and to voice them all in a purely literary form." Laurence Dunbar was listed in Molefi Kete Asante book 100 GREATEST AFRICAN AMERICANS. His legacy also includes a number of schools are named after him. BAL 4946 (noted printing 1, binding A). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 D-597. Tiny brown spot on title and dedication pages, some stains to text pages, else a fine, lovely copy. (14339). Item #14339
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