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12mo.; green and gilt cloth covered boards, hardcover; 187 pages; black and white illustrations and frontispiece; non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper and personal stamp on front endpaper else very good in edge-rubbed and sunned boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Compilation of stories featuring an African-American expert on marriage and other topics. It was meant by the influential and progressive author, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer known as Dorothy Dix, to promote the wisdom of her character but to present-day readers the dialect and illustrations could be perceived as racist; the "n-word" is used, among African-American characters conversing with each other.256 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; binding firm but front gutter cracked; burgundy-red boards with ochre lettering are lightly bumped on corners and have slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 366 Pp. First Edition, 1885 Date On Title Page, But With Later Issue Points Showing Corrections To Final State. Twain Portrait Frontispiece ( Which Bal Says Is An Insert) Does Not Show The "Heliotype" Imprint Or Any Of The Table/Tablecloth Under The Bust. Title Page Is Integral , 1884 Copyright On Verso Of The Title Page; Heading For Chapter 6 On The Contents Page Corrected To "Decides" . On Page 13 The Illustration "Him And Another Man" Listed Correctly At P. 87. Page 57, 11 Lines From The Bottom, Corrected To "With The Saw". Page143 The "L" In Col. Is Not Missing At The Top Of The Illustration. Page 155, The Last "5" Is A Larger Font. Page 161 The Signature Mark "11" Is Missing. Page 283 Is Not A Cancel Sheet And States "Who Do You Reckon It Is?". An Unusually Clean Example, Front Cover With All Gilt And Black Lettering/Design Complete And All Black Lettering And Design Very Strong And Sharp, Spine Lettering Clear But Gilt Background To Title Is Rubbed Although Present. No External Or Internal Markings/Tears/Names Except Small Name Stamp Of George O. Potter At Top Corner Of Front Free Endpaper, Hinges Solid And Intact, Light Fraying To Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine With Exposure Of Most Of Band On Bottom Edge, Small Frays At Tips.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. [xii], 263 pp. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black with pictorial inset on front cover, gilt topstain. Very Good with stain spots to front board, light reading wear, slightly bumped corners. A collection of short stories by the African American poet and writer.

First Edition. First State, with Index of Titles arranged by order of appearance in the book, and "Warm Hair" on p.8 credited to Mark Twain. Thick octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; patterned endpapers; xxiv,707,[1]pp; illus. Armorial bookplate of S.&C. Goodman mounted to front pastedown, with ink and pencil name of C.M. Clay Jr. on verso of front endpaper and preliminary blank respectively. Modest external wear, some softening and tiny tears to spine ends, faint splash mark to lower rear cover, with faint foxing and occasional finger-soil to margins; two small ink splotches to front pastedown and endpaper; hinges sound; Very Good. Substantial collection of humorous writing, anonymously edited by William Dean Howells. Includes contributions by Twain and Howells, as well as Ambrose Bierce, George W. Cable, Mary Mapes Dodge, Joel Chandler Harris, Bret Harte, Washington Irving, James Russell Lowell, Artemus Ward, and others. BAL 1982 & 3425. 88747.