Candle-Lightin' Time First Edition
For a first edition, first printing of Candle-Lightin' Time by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Dodd, Mead, 1901), the first point to check: Title page: imprint “New York / Dodd Mead & Co” dated MDCCCCI (1901).
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How to identify this edition
These points tell this edition apart from other printings and editions of Candle-Lightin' Time.
✓ Title page: imprint “New York / Dodd Mead & Co” dated MDCCCCI (1901)
✓ Title page: “Illustrated with Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong”
✓ Title page colours: red and black (earliest state, as on deposit copies) or green and black
✓ Binding: green cloth, front board stamped with a crescent moon over white flowers, title in gilt; gilt-stamped spine
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Common questions
- How do I know if my copy of Candle-Lightin' Time is a first edition, first printing?
- ✓ Title page: imprint “New York / Dodd Mead & Co” dated MDCCCCI (1901) ✓ Title page: “Illustrated with Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong” ✓ Title page colours: red and black (earliest state, as on deposit copies) or green and black ✓ Binding: green cloth, front board stamped with a crescent moon over white flowers, title in gilt; gilt-stamped spine The identification points above show each one.
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