TWO RUNAWAYS AND OTHER STORIES. 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." - Fullerton, p. 92. Wright (III) 1712. Early owner's gift inscription dated 1890 on front paste-down. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#133346).
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