![[3728942] Li’l’ Gal. Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872–1906.](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728942.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706601305)
Li’l’ Gal.
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Volume of black “dialect” poems with numerous half tone illustrations of African Americans—many portrait or character study-like or documentary—after photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner of 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) A nice tight and clean copy.
Description: Li’l’ Gal.
New York: Dodd, Meade and Co., MCMIV [1904]. First Edition. 123, [1]pp. 8vo. Original, publisher’s olive 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 Margaret Armstrong, signed with her cipher “MA.” Half tone illustrations from photographs; decorated pages. Fragment of upper cover of publisher’s pictorial dust jacket laid in. Spine decoration faded; very good.
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