• Candle-lightin' time / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong.

Collections:
Illustrator:
  • Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944
  • Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Camera Club
Binding designer:
  • Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944
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Language:
  • English
Creator:
  • Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Call number:
  • 2003-0992N
  • N-003724
Extent:
  • 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Poetry
  • Illustrated works
Publisher:
  • New York : Dodd Mead & Co., MDCCCCI. [1901]
  • Cambridge, U.S.A. : University Press, John Wilson and Son
  • ©1901
Subject:
  • African Americans—Poetry
  • American poetry—African American authors
  • Country life—Poetry
  • African Americans—Pictorial works
  • Relief halftones (prints)—United States—New York—New York—20th century
  • poetry
  • illustrated books
  • Poetry
  • Illustrated works
  • Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
  • Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
  • Poems
  • Bookplates (Provenance)
  • Inscriptions (Provenance)
Author:
  • Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Date:
  • 1901-1901
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dc5712mj93k
Range label:
  • Logical
References:
  • Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 4937
  • Gullans, C. A checklist of trade bindings designed by Margaret Armstrong, 80
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3325
Contents:
  • Dinah kneading dough
  • Dat ol' mare o' mine
  • A spring wooing
  • The old front gate
  • Fishin'
  • When dey listed Colored soldiers
  • Lullaby
  • Song of summer
  • At candle-lightin' time.
Description:
  • Poems.
  • With half title.
  • Copyright, edition, and printer statements from verso of title page.
  • Title page printed in red and black. Text and illustrations within floral border printed in green.
  • Cloth binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. Consult Gullans.
Contributor:
  • Dodd, Mead & Company
Provenance:
  • Princeton copy 2 Bookplate of the pioneer collector of African-American books Charles L. Blockson on the front pastedown, and additionally Inscribed by him to another collector: “To a great collector of Dunbar and a friend, Happy Collecting, Charles L. Blockson.”
Spatial:
  • United States
Binding note:
  • Full green publisher's cloth with pictorial boards stamped in gilt, black, cream and brown; gilt-stamped back.
Abstract:
  • Poems in old-fashioned, stereotypical African American dialect.
Edition:
  • First edition.
Printer:
  • John Wilson and Son