When Malindy Sings

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A first edition, hardcover, octavo book of When Malinday Sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The book is covered in brown cloth binding with gilt title on front and spine. The front cover has a decorative design of gold trellis with green vines and red flowers in an art nouveau style designed by Margaret Armstrong. Inside the book, black and white photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and light green decorative floral borders by Armstrong surround the photographs and text on each interior page of the book. The front of the first page has two handwritten inscriptions, one in pencil in the upper right corner [5251 / 35.00] and the second in black ink in the center [Daddy / from Bess / 1907]. On the inside of the back cover, in the upper left corner, are illegible inscriptions written in blue ink. There are 144 pages.

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