Howdy Honey Howdy
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Illustrated with photographs by Leigh Miner. Some rubbing to the cloth, else near fine in a dustjacket with chips along all its edges and folds, but still integral (not separated or held together with tape), and it is in good condition, and almost as scarce as you would suppose for a 117–year old dustjacket. Near fine / good. Item #785
We do not usually bother to say if a book (or anything else) is by a Black person, or by someone from any other group that is not the most commonly met with, or expected, for the item being offered, because if you care you know, so it looks like rusty artillery wheeled up to fire any handy shards of scrap metal when the cataloger is low on quality ammunition. But in this case, we will point out that Dunbar was the first Black American poet to gain national prominence, and the first to be published by any mainstream American publisher, and that is historic. And since we are into this now, it is not often remembered, and it is less often mentioned, that the previous book (Dumas’ The Three Musketeers) was also written by a Black man.
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$1,000.00