Candle-Lightin' Time

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901. First Edition. First printing, with the title page in state B, printed in black and green. With art nouveau decorations by Margaret Armstrong, and photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, throughout.

A collection of nine poems by renowned, influential African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, best known for his dialect verse.

Very Good plus in a Very Good plus example of the excessively rare dust jacket. Gilt lightly rubbed, with some offsetting from the jacket flaps to the endpapers, faint foxing on the half-title page. Jacket has a few short tears on the edges, two mended with archival tape on the verso, and small chips at the corners and crown.

[Book #160426]