Bandanna Ballads Including "Shadows on the Wall."
Item #82103
WEEDEN, [Maria] Howard. HARRIS, Joel Chandler (intro.). Bandanna Ballads Including "Shadows on the Wall." New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. 1st ed. xvi, [2], 90, [2] pp., frontis., illus. In orig. cloth. An exceptionally bright copy with trivial rubbing to the board edges. Near fine. Weeden was a noted Alabama artist turned poet at the end of her life. Her focus in both art and poetry were the formerly enslaved. Her first work of poetry in dialect accompanied by numerous and quite sensitive illustrations was sufficiently successful for her to produces a few other volumes of mixed poetry and illustration. This present work is her second.
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