New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1935. 1st edition (Baumgarten 2004, p. 52). Not found in the Blockson Catalogue. Unpaginated, though 62 pp. Black & white drawings by the author. Landscape format: 9" x 11". Green cloth binding with red stamped lettering. Yellow, black & orange pictorial dust jacket, which..... More
Boston: Meador Publishing Company, (1946). 1st Edition (Brignano 249). 315, [5 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece of the author. 8vo. Greenish-grey cloth binding with gilt stamping. White, black & orange dust jacket [later issue? "Stephens" corrected to "Steffens" in rear panel advert). "Carrying the account of his life to about 1930, the..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Franklin Hudson Publishing Company, 1907. Fifth Edition [stated]. Not found in the Blockson Catalogue. 280, [4 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with drawings by H. Wood. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with white stamped lettering. Green eps. White paper dust jacket printed in bronze, replicating the binding design..... More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1932. 1st edition (Blockson Catalogue 4664). 243 pp. Crown 8vo. Reddish-brown cloth with gold lettering. Pale green pictorial eps. Dust jacket, with design by Robert Edmond Jones. "The simple and moving story of a yellow swamp Negro." More
San Francisco: Book Club of California [the Lemoncheese Press], 2022. 1st printing thus. #28 / 50 cc. Broadside, 13" x 9-1/4". Poem, 4 stanzas printed in red ink, 18 lines total. 5 line colophon at bottom, printed in black ink. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "This poem appeared..... More
