Bandanna Ballads

(Maria) Howard Weeden

Verlag: Doubleday and McClure, New York, 1899

Beschreibung

First edition. Slim hardcover in light gray cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt, white and silhouette cameo design front cover. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with drawings by the author and with an introduction by Joel Chandler Harris. A collection of short verse pieces dealing with African Amewrican life in the Old South. The illustrations are black and white drawn portraits of of various traditional "old time plantation Negroes." A tight, near fine example, tasteful vintage bookplate front pastedown. The author's actual full name was Maria Howard Weeden, a woman who gained international recognition for her (usually) watercolor portraits of former slaves; she used brushed with only three hairs which enabled her to capture her subjects in high detail, much as the miniaturists of earlier times. She also wrote poetry in Negro dialect. Both these skills are in evidence in this volume. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers E20233B

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Bandanna Ballads

Verlag: Doubleday and McClure, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1899

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: First edition.