Candle-Lightin' Time by Dunbar, Paul Laurence - 1901

Gold Medal Books #1153, 1961. Paperback, Paperback ORIGINAL, stated 1st Edition, Sept. 1961, water stain back cover & few pgs back book, minor crease Cvr, VG-,AS-IS, SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover.

Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press/Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1863. First Edition . Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Georgina Lowell Putnam (1836-1922) was a niece of James Russell Lowell and the daughter of the wealthy industrialist Francis Cabot Lowell, Jr. of the noted mill town of Lowell, Mass. This presentation copy signed, "CLS from GLP March 1885." The handsome book is also signed "Louise Dervey With happy memories from C L Shaw May 1919." C. L. Shaw probably refers to Carlotta Lowell Shaw (Shaw Lowell), daughter of reformer Josephine Shaw (herself a sister of Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw and the first woman to hold public office in New York City) and Civil War Major and fatal casualty Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864). Brown, full-leather with five raised bands on spine. Blind-tooled designs of Maltese crosses on boards and spine. A.E.G. Marbled eps. with gilt dentelle design. 71 Pages. Spine has been expertly rebacked by the… Read More

New York, 1928. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Interesting piece of literary Americana. A chapter written as part of, but not included in, The Prince and the Pauper. First separate printing. Originally published in the Bazaar Budget in 1880, this copy privately printed by Merle Johnson in 1928. BAL #3545 and #3387. A single sheet folded once to make four unnumbered pages, measuring 8.3 by 6.25 inches. In a protective folder. Extremely scarce.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. fine in Very Good DJ; dj protected by new mylar wrap.. 8 vo; red tweed paper boards with black spine covering & silver spine lettering; 277 pages. illust. dj. author's first novel after publishing a volume of poetry;

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 340pp; Half-leather with maroon cloth, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge starting, toning to endpapers, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Collection of roadside songs of Tuscany translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander and edited by John Ruskin. In ten parts with 20 illustrations.

Gold Medal Books #1153, 1961. Paperback, Paperback ORIGINAL, stated 1st Edition, Sept. 1961, water stain back cover & few pgs back book, minor crease Cvr, VG-,AS-IS, SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover.

Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press/Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1863. First Edition . Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Georgina Lowell Putnam (1836-1922) was a niece of James Russell Lowell and the daughter of the wealthy industrialist Francis Cabot Lowell, Jr. of the noted mill town of Lowell, Mass. This presentation copy signed, "CLS from GLP March 1885." The handsome book is also signed "Louise Dervey With happy memories from C L Shaw May 1919." C. L. Shaw probably refers to Carlotta Lowell Shaw (Shaw Lowell), daughter of reformer Josephine Shaw (herself a sister of Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw and the first woman to hold public office in New York City) and Civil War Major and fatal casualty Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864). Brown, full-leather with five raised bands on spine. Blind-tooled designs of Maltese crosses on boards and spine. A.E.G. Marbled eps. with gilt dentelle design. 71 Pages. Spine has been expertly rebacked by the… Read More

New York, 1928. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Interesting piece of literary Americana. A chapter written as part of, but not included in, The Prince and the Pauper. First separate printing. Originally published in the Bazaar Budget in 1880, this copy privately printed by Merle Johnson in 1928. BAL #3545 and #3387. A single sheet folded once to make four unnumbered pages, measuring 8.3 by 6.25 inches. In a protective folder. Extremely scarce.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 340pp; Half-leather with maroon cloth, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge starting, toning to endpapers, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Collection of roadside songs of Tuscany translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander and edited by John Ruskin. In ten parts with 20 illustrations.

New York: Random House, 1984. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth. Very fine in very dust jacket.