Up from Georgia

by Frank L. Stanton

$275 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

NY: D. Appleton & Co., 1902. First edition. 12mo. viii, 177 pp. Mostly poems in Black dialect. Original green and gilt-stamped decorated purple cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, plain publisher’s? dust jacket some chips and wear around the edges , with a pen-and-ink and watercolor portrait 2/2 inches of a Black boy wearing a slouch hat, with an unsigned note beside it “Here’s to / Frank L. Stanton / who by jings, just sings, and

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