Item #93669 The Love of Landry. Paul Laurence Dunbar.

The Love of Landry

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1900. 1st ed. Hardcover. 200p. Original green cloth. 18 cm. White lettering (publisher's name) chipped off at base of backstrip and partially chipped off front cover lettering. Spine moderately sloped. Minor cover cpotting. Corners creased on a couple of leaves. No Jacket. The second of Dunbar's four novels. Mildred, his white heroine, is sent to Colorado on the recommendation of her the family doctor to get rid of her cough -- Dunbar, already suffering from TB, had gone to Colorado briefly in 1900. Mildred, unlike Dunbar, finds health and also happiness (romance). The book was poorly reviewed and did not sell well. Good. Item #93669

Price: $125.00