![[3728941] Poems of Cabin and Field. Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872–1906.](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728941.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706666296)
Poems of Cabin and Field.
Illustrated with Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and Decorations by Alice Morse
Volume of black “dialect” poems with numerous half tone illustrations of African Americans—many portrait or character study-like or documentary—after photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. “The years from 1898 until the time of [Dunbar’s] death were extremely busy ones for the popular writer. …He was called upon to help raise money for Hampton Institute and Tuskegee Institute.” (DANB) An especially tight and clean copy with bright gilt to upper board.
Description: Poems of Cabin and Field.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, MDCCCXCIX [1899]. First Edition. Frontispiece, 125, [1 (blank)]pp. 8vo. Original, publisher’s dark green cloth with gilt stamped titling and colored decorations on spine and upper cover; untrimmed edges; top edge gilt. Binding design and page decorations by Alice C. Morse, signed with her cipher “AM.” Half tone illustrations from photographs; decorated pages. Spine slightly sunned; very good.
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