Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 291

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) DUNBAR, PAUL LAWRENCE. Majors and Minors. Frontispiece portrait of the poet. 148 pages. Small 8vo, original green cloth with beveled edges; front joint started, but firm; clippings affixed at the end of the text, between the rear endpaper and the paste-down, glued to the latter. Toledo, OH, 1896

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a very handsome copy of the first edition, first issue of dunbar's second book of poetry. It was William Dean Howells' rave review that got Dunbar a contract with Dodd, Mead publishers, bringing him into the main stream of American Literature and poetry.