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The Sport of the Gods
by DUNBAR, Paul Laurence
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902. First Separate Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 255pp. First edition in book form, preceded by an appearance in Lippincott's Magazine in 1901. Per BAL, this is the apparent second issue, in a pale greenish-grey cloth and no gilt top edge (and in our experience, scarcer than the first issue). This copy mildly ex-private library, with a small contemporary paper label on the spine, an institutional bookplate to the front paste-down, small owner's label to the front flyleaf, and a stamp to the title page, else unmarked. In good condition overall, with the inner hinges starting, wear to the spine ends, and the corners. Highly uncommon compared to Dunbar's poetry volumes, this novel tells the story of an emancipated Black family in the south whose bonds begin to fray as they move north for opportunities, and encounter difficulties adjusting to city life. This was the first on Dunbar's novels to explicitly feature African-Americans as the main characters (Gayle, "Oak and Ivy," p. 151). Though ex-library, still a desirable copy of this scarce and under-studied novel by Dunbar. Metcalf, p. 3., Merle Johnson p. 109, BAL 4939.
Synopsis
The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. Forced to leave the South, a family falls apart amid the harsh realities of Northern inner city life in this 1902 examination of the forces that extinguish the dreams of African Americans.
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Details
- Seller
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 11639
- Title
- The Sport of the Gods
- Author
- DUNBAR, Paul Laurence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Separate Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Black literature, Poetry
Terms of Sale
Cleveland Book Company
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About the Seller
Cleveland Book Company
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Rocky River, Ohio
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Title Page
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- BAL
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