(LITERATURE AND POETRY) DUNBAR ALICE The Goodness of St Roqu

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) DUNBAR, ALICE. The Goodness of St Roque. 224 pages. Small 8vo, original pictorial green cloth, blocked in silver and black on the upper cover and spine; binding very slightly skewed; contemporary non-authorial gift presentation on the front free end-paper relating to St Roque; triangular chip from the upper margin of page 23. New York: Dodd Mead, 1899

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first edition of the author's rare second book, following a privately printed collection of prose and poetry.The book that established Mrs. Dunbar's reputation as something more than Paul Lawrence Dunbar's wife. The dark tone and setting of these stories of old New Orleans is somewhat reminiscent of writing of Kate Chopin, a contemporary of Dunbar. This collection of short stories is the first to be published by An African American woman. It is unfortunate that Alice Dunbar's enormous talent was overshadowed by her husband Paul Lawrence Dunbar. After her husband's passing, Dunbar produced The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, the first such collection to be printed. A rare book, OCLC locates not a single copy of the first edition in American libraries.