[Rarebooks] FS: Discounted Paul Dunbar's second book: Majors and Minors

[Allington Books]

*Offered*: *Majors and Minors: Paul Dunbar's scarce second book**. *

Was $3,250, Now $1,750

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Majors and Minors: Poems. Toledo, Ohio: Paul Dunbar
[Hadley & Hadley: Printers and Binders], 1895. First edition. A Very Good +
or better copy (perhaps Near Fine compared to the condition in which this
rare volume is more typically found) in the Publisher's original second
state cloth binding, with Dunbar's middle name errantly spelled "Lawrence".
The second (of 2) books self-published by Dunbar. The son of former,
escaped Slaves, Dunbar was the first Black American Poet to receive
international recognition. He purposely wrote in a black dialect, giving a
strong sense of authenticity to his work, and though the only student of
his race at Dayton's Central High School, he served as Editor of the
School's Newspaper and as Class President. With the assistance of Orville
and Wilbur Wright, Dunbar also published an African-American newsletter
named "The Dayton Tattler". Having gained some attention for his work,
Dunbar self-published his first book ("Oak and Ivy") and sold it to riders
on the elevator he operated in Dayton's Callahan Building. So promising was
Dunbar that "Majors and Minors" brought him to the attention of William
Dean Howells, author, literary critic, and former editor of "The Atlantic"
magazine, and to national fame, with Frederick Douglass declaring him to be
"the most promising young colored man in America." So well-known did Dunbar
become that a number of libraries and schools are named after him.  This is
a remarkably nice copy of this important Dunbar work with a bit of shelf
wear and rubbing to the volume's edges, as well as a bit of cracking to the
floral endpapers. This copy is nevertheless in surprisingly nice condition
as most copies, when found, are normally in a rather soiled and worn state.
An excellent copy of Paul Dunbar's important and rather scarce second
book.

 Near Fine. Hardcover. (#00002072)        $1,750.00

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