Candle-Lightin' Time
New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 127pp. Original green cloth with embossed color illustration adorned with gilt symbols and lettering on spine, gilt illustration and lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated half-title. Frontispiece photograph. Illustrated title page printed in green and black. All pages, photographs and poems, are adorned with intricate and beautiful Art Nouveau frames by Margaret Armstrong, printed in light green. Illustrated with fifty-one photographs, ten of them full page, by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, depicting the life of African Americans. Binding with light wear. Bookplate of Senator Henry M. Dunlap on inside front cover. Inscriptions addressed to Dunlap's wife Nora B. Dunlap from her mother on her 25th anniversary, July 5th, 1902 on front free endpaper and on verso of frontispiece. Block lightly age-toned. Very good condition. Item #50169
Price: $175.00