The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970. Red cloth-backed octavo with gilt stamping ; red pictorial jacket; xxxix, 479p. Book in very good (-) condition; front flyleaf starting a tad, binding otherwise tight; gentle age-tanning to leaves and the slightest hint of foxing at edges; small annotations in pen on pages 58 and 342, pages otherwise clean, spine lightly bumped; dust jacket in good (+) to very good(-) condition, scuffing and shelfwear at creases and edges; some sunning and chipping to spine and mild foxing to fore edge. Hardcover.

From the dust jacket: "Of all Negro poets, none has been more loved and more widely read than Paul Laurence Dunbar. Here in one volume is contained all his poetry, including the Lyrics of Lowly Life, Lyrics of the Hearthside, Lyrics of Love and Laughter, Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow, and a number of additional poems not appearing in individual volumes.[...] The volume also includes the famous William Dean Howells' preface on Dunbar which did so much to bring him to the attention of readers everywhere". Contains an index of titles and index of first lines, introductions to each collection, and dedications. // poetry, African-American poetry, american poetry, poetry collections,