Author: Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Title: Li'l' Gal
Publication Information: New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. MCMIV
Call #: PS1556 .L5 1904
Book Size: 22.2 cm (H); 15 cm (L); 2 cm (spine)
Cover: Olive green cloth; front cover: three clusters of daffodils, embossed on green, orange, and off white; title and author's full name embossed in god. Plain back cover. Spine: title, "Dunbar" and "Dodd, Mead, Company" in gold; floral design parallel to front cover embossed in green, orange, off white (some green cloth showing through)
Inside Book Covers: plain paper
Paper Edges: top gilt; side and bottom unadorned
Illustrations: photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner of the Hampton Institute Camera Club (note: decorations by Margaret Armstrong - and there are floral decorations around the edges in burnt orange on virtually every page)
Comments:
- table of contents (titles, no numbers)
- no list of illustrations, which are interspersed throughout
- written in dialect
- copyright 1896, 1899, 1904
- back page: Printed for Dodd, Mead, and Company by the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. October 1904
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Early 20th-Century American Text Production
- Representations of African Americans
- Illustration
