TWO RUNAWAYS AND OTHER STORIES
$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition
New York: The Century Co., 1889 . Octavo, pp. 1-8 1 2-246, inserted plates with illustrations by E. W. Kemble, original gray-green cloth stamped in gold and blind, bottom edge of sheets untrimmed. First edition. The author's first book, a collection of Southern stories of blacks and whites, told in dialect. His tales are full of quaint conceits, and at least one of them, 'Eneas Africanus' 1919 , is a Southern classic.
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