Brother Gardner's Lime-kiln club, being the regular proceedings of the regular club for the last thr by Quad M - 2009-05-20

Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co.. Cover is worn with some cloth edge chipping, damp staining to the rear cover fore-edge. Light ink staining to pages 48-49. H4 . Good. Cloth. 1882.

Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1894. (1894), 300pp, slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, owner's name stamped in several places, a few pgs beginning to loosen, pgs yellowed, no dj, contents unmarked.. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket.

Chicago, IL: Belford, Clark & Co, 1882. Paperback. Good-. 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Paperback. Book Condition: Good-. Belford, Clark & Co, Chicago, IL 1882. 300 pages. Text block solid. Front cover missing chips, spine cover mainly missing, rear cover missing. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Humorous, comic, good-natured accounts of the activities in a Detroit negro social club in the early 1880's. Humor::Humor History::U.S.A.::Black History History::U.S.A.::Post-Civil War to 1900 7284 7284

Belford, Clarke and Co, 1882. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Chicago, 1882; green boards with black cover titles and gold spine titles; heavy wear and markings to covers; mild corner and edge wear; corners bumped; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; no jacket; interior clean and unmarked. 300 pages.

New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Early reprint edition. John W. Lovell Co., n.d. (post-1891 based on publisher address); 300pp., 11 illustrations. G+ hardcover, bound in blue cloth with black and gilt stamped titling/decoration. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to edges of boards, cloth darkened on spine, gilt title box slightly dulled; illustrations and text free of markings; bookseller ink stamp (J. F. Ruggles of Bronson, MI) on front paste-down. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Chicago, IL: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Gean Smith. Hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Blue cloth boards with black design and text on front, gilt on spine. Floral design end pages are free and clear of any handwriting or bookplates. But no hinge cracks noted. First edition thus. Exterior shows spine sunning and edge bumping. There's also a stain on the front board. Book condition graded as good plus. See photos.

Upper Saddle River, NJ. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House / Gregg Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1970. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. No defects. Pages are crisp, tight, book appears unread. . Facsimile reprint of a book originally published by Donohue, Hennebery & Company in 1882. "Dedicated to the members of the Detroit Lime-Kiln club and to the friends and well wishers of the Colored man in America". Crude Negro humor and wit, in Negro dialect. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 300 pages. C5 .

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Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co, 1882. Hardcover. 300p., first edition, illustrated with 11 fullpage wood engravings of urban and country African American life; these stylized and quite capable, if stereotyped. Minor edgewear. no DJ. Dialect novel set in Detroit's black community, by a European American author. For a change of pace, the table of contents page is arranged in Alphabetical order (!?!).

Belford, Clarke & Co. Hardcover. Fair. B000IY0K6M 1882 Hardcover. Front hinge is started. Brown cloth board are clean, show normal wear consistent with age, has a rubbed spot on the top edge of the textblock, no interior markings/notations. lz