Research Catalog

Title

The uncalled : a novel / by Paul Laurence Dunbar, author of "Lyrics of a lowly life."

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Publication

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950
• Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), place of manufacture.
• 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.

Subjects

• African Americans > Fiction
• Insertions (Provenance)
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) > 1899 > United States > New York > New York > Specimens
• Signed bindings (Binding) > 20th century > United States > Specimens
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Novels
• Dialect fiction

Genre/Form

• Novels.
• Dialect fiction.
• Signed bindings (Binding) – 20th century – United States – Specimens.
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) – 1899 – United States – New York – New York – Specimens.
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Insertions (Provenance)

Note

• Title in red and black within black border; title vignette.
• "Copyright, 1898 by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Copyright, 1898 by Dodd, Mead and Company."--verso of title page.
• "University Press John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Indexed In (note)

• Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "With the compliments of the Author to his friend John E. Bruce- Dec. 6th 1898. Paul Laurence Dunbar." ; accompanied by newspaper clipping about Dunbar, written by Bruce, and dated in Bruce's hand "The Sentinel Dec. 25 1898" ; accompanied by clipped portrait of Dunbar, affixed to front pastedown.

Binding (note)

• Binding signed "GWE".

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic (Dunbar, P. Uncalled. N.Y.: 1898)

LCCN

98001206

OCLC

729043

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Title

The uncalled : a novel / by Paul Laurence Dunbar, author of "Lyrics of a lowly life."

Imprint

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898.

Indexed In:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 4923A

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3335

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900, 1671

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic (Dunbar, P. Uncalled. N.Y.: 1898) (copy 1) (accession no. B544696) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Copy in Sc Rare Fic (Dunbar, P. Uncalled. N.Y.: 1898) (copy 2) (accession no. C211600) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "With the compliments of the Author to his friend John E. Bruce- Dec. 6th 1898. Paul Laurence Dunbar." ; accompanied by newspaper clipping about Dunbar, written by Bruce, and dated in Bruce's hand "The Sentinel Dec. 25 1898" ; accompanied by clipped portrait of Dunbar, affixed to front pastedown. NN

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1536 r. 2. NN

Binding

Binding signed "GWE".

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Added Author

Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950, binding designer.

Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), place of manufacture.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

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

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906, inscriber.

Bruce, John Edward, 1856-1924, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic (Dunbar, P. Uncalled. N.Y.: 1898)