Research Catalog

Title

Poems of cabin and field / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Alice Morse.

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Publication

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, MDCCCIV. [1904]

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Details

Additional Authors

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Camera Club.

Description

125, [1] p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• African Americans > Poetry
• African Americans > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

Booksellers' labels (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Copyright, 1896-1899 by Dodd, Mead & Co. All rights reserved. Copyright, 1895-1896 by the Century Company."--verso of title page.
• "University Press. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

• with printed bookseller's label on front pastedown "F. Losser & Co. Brooklyn Book Store." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Binding (note)

• Bound in green cloth with title and author gold stamped and embossed within floral design of light green and salmon; title, author, and publisher stamped in gold on spine with repeated plant design stamped in light green and salmon; top edge gilt. Signed with conjoined AM [Alice C. Morse].

Contents

The deserted plantation -- Hunting song -- Little brown baby -- Chris'mus is a-comin' -- Signs of the times -- Time to tinker 'round -- Lullaby -- A banjo song.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-D (Dunbar, P. L. Poems of cabin and field. 1904)

OCLC

• 4303532
• NYPGR4303532-B

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Title

Poems of cabin and field / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Alice Morse.

Imprint

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, MDCCCIV. [1904]

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-D (accession no. B544695) with printed bookseller's label on front pastedown "F. Losser & Co. Brooklyn Book Store." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Binding

Bound in green cloth with title and author gold stamped and embossed within floral design of light green and salmon; title, author, and publisher stamped in gold on spine with repeated plant design stamped in light green and salmon; top edge gilt. Signed with conjoined AM [Alice C. Morse].

Local Note

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1536 no. 4 or the electronic resource.

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Added Author

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Camera Club.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

F. Losser & Co. Brooklyn Book Store, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-D (Dunbar, P. L. Poems of cabin and field. 1904)

Rare Books 18-3424