The Black Homer of Jimtown by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] MOTT, Ed - 1900

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Collection of Gullah dialect stories and folk tales, many collected on Cape Fear, Noth Carolina, and all of which first published in "The New York Sun." LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 6905; WRIGHT III 3862; see also "American Negro Dialect Literature" in "A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages" (1975), p. 535. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth with photographic lozenge mounted to upper cover, in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [2],286pp. Jacket in two pieces with spine mostly perished, (only small portion of spine laid in), though cloth still bright; Near Fine in a Good copy of the exceedingly scarce dust jacket. At head of upper jacket panel: "A Book of Real 'Coon' Stories.