Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 256

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
INSCRIBED BY DUNBAR & HIS WIFE (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE. Folks from Dixie. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Small 8vo, original pictorial cloth, quite worn. A candidate for re-casing. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1898

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inscribed and signed by paul laurence dunbar and his wife "Very Sincerely Yours, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Moore Dunbar, Washington, July 13, 1898." Alice Moore Dunbar was a fine writer. She edited Dunbar's collected poems and wrote, "The Goodness of St. Rocque," (1899) a collection of short stories. Her signature is quite scarce.