Research Catalog

Title

The new Floyd's flowers : short stories for colored people old and young / Silas X. Floyd.

Author

Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Published by Austin Jenkins Co., 1922.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Howard, Alice H. (Teacher)
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

317 pages, 31 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Alternative Title

Floyd's flowers

Subjects

• Conduct of life
• Black author

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Fiction.
• Short stories.
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• Published also in 1925 under title: Charming stories for young and old.
• "The new Floyd's flowers : illustrated stories; especially arranged for colored people." -- Cover

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Binding (note)

• Bound in full publisher's red cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering to spine and front cover in yellow, red and black.

Call Number

Sc 170-F (Floyd, S. New Floyd's flowers)

OCLC

8094070

Author

Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923, author.

Title

The new Floyd's flowers : short stories for colored people old and young / Silas X. Floyd.

Publisher

Washington, D.C. : Published by Austin Jenkins Co., 1922.

Edition

Greatly revised and enlarged with ABC's supplement / by Mrs. Alice H. Howard.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 3, page 2542, column 2, row 4

Binding

Bound in full publisher's red cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering to spine and front cover in yellow, red and black.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Jean Blackwell Hutson Research & Reference Division's copy in Sc Rare 326.1-B (accession no. E987781) showed a "Feb. 19, 1948"-- G.K. Halls, v. 3, page 2542, column 2, row 4, addition to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer and Lawrence Reddick were the Collection Librarian & Curator. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," the NYPL perforated stamp, and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. Currently housed in an Ocker & Trapp, Inc. box.

Source

E987781. NN

Local Subject

Black author.

Place of Publication

United States District of Columbia Washington, D.C.

Added Author

Howard, Alice H. (Teacher)

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923. New Floyd's flowers. Greatly rev. and enl. with ABC's supplement. Washington, D.C. : Austin Jenkins, 1922 (OCoLC)891351754

Research Call Number

Sc 170-F (Floyd, S. New Floyd's flowers)