Research Catalog

Title

The sport of the gods / by Paul Laurence Dunbar, author of "Lyrics of lowly life," "Poems of cabin and field," "Candle-lightin' time," "The fanatics," etc.

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Publication

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, MDCCCCII. [1902]

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Additional Authors

• Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
• J.B. Lippincott Company, copyright holder.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
• John Wilson and Son, printer.

Description

[6], 255, [1] p.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

• African Americans > Fiction
• African American families > Fiction
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
• African American families > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
• Judicial error > Fiction
• Judicial error > Southern States > Fiction

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Copyright, 1901 by J.B. Lippincott Company. Copyright, 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. First edition published April, 1902."--verso of title page.
• "University Press. John Wilson and Son. Cambridge, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

• Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. The Hamiltons -- ch. 2. A farewell dinner -- ch. 3. The theft -- ch. 4. From a clear sky -- ch. 5. The justice of men -- ch. 6. Outcasts -- ch. 7. In New York -- ch. 8. An evening out -- ch. 9. His heart's desire -- ch. 10. A visitor from home -- ch. 11. Broken hopes -- ch. 12. "All the world's a stage" -- ch. 13. The Oakleys -- ch. 14. Frankenstein -- ch. 15. "Dear, damned, delightful town" -- ch. 16. Skagg's theory -- ch. 17. A yellow journal -- ch. 18. What Berry found.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-D (Dunbar, P. L. Sport of the gods)

LCCN

02011733

OCLC

• 728951
• NYPGR728951-B

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Title

The sport of the gods / by Paul Laurence Dunbar, author of "Lyrics of lowly life," "Poems of cabin and field," "Candle-lightin' time," "The fanatics," etc.

Imprint

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, MDCCCCII. [1902]

Indexed In:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 4939

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-D (Dunbar, P. L. Sport of the gods) (accession no. B541541) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1536 [pt. B-4]. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.

J.B. Lippincott Company, copyright holder.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-D (Dunbar, P. L. Sport of the gods)