Ben King's Verse

by King, Ben, Edited by Nixon Waterman. Introduction by John McGovern. Biography by Opie Read. With illustrations by Chas. A. Gray, W.W. Denslow, H.G. Maratta, Ray Brown, F. Holmes, J.T. McCutcheon, Hora

$75 · Offered by Bolerium Books

Chicago: The Press Club of Chicago, 1894. Hardcover. 181p., frontis-portrait, illustrated with plates by Denslow et al., previous ownership name on first blank, shelfwear and rubbing to covers, first edition hardcover bound in green cloth boards and gilt titles. Much stereotypical Black dialect poetry by the White Chicagoan pianist &..... More

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