Six (6) books, including CANDLE-LIGHTIN'TIME by Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1901, and three (3) Maria Howard Weeden books. 1st item: CANDLE-LIGHTIN'TIME by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong, published by Dodd Mead and Company,1901. Octavo, 127 gilt top edged pages with song lyrics and photographic illustrations, hardbound in green cloth with decorative Art Nouveau style blindstamped front cover, metallic copper lettering and blindstamp decorations to spine. Does not retain dust jacket. 9" H x 6 1/8" W x 3/4" D. 2nd item: BANDANNA BALLADS, including "Shadows on the Wall," verses and pictures by Howard Weeden, introduction by Joel Chandler Harris, published by Doubleday and McClure Company, New York, 1900. Octavo, 90 song lyric pages with illustrations, hardbound in grey cloth with gilt and black pictorial blindstamping and lettering to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Does not retain dust jacket. 8 3/4" H x 6 3/4" W. x 5/8" W. 3rd item: OLD VOICES by Howard Weeden, published by Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1904. Octavo, song lyric pages with illustrations, hardbound in brown cloth with brown and gilt blindstamped pictorial front cover gilt lettering to spine. Does not retain dust jacket. 10 1/4" H x 8" W x 3/4" D. 4th item: SONGS OF THE SOUTH verses and pictures by Howard Weeden, published by Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1904.Octavo, 94 song lyric pages with illustrations, hardbound in grey cloth with pictorial front cover with gilt lettering, gilt lettering to spine. Does not retain dust jacket. 9" H x 6 1/2" x 5/8" D. 5th item: HOLD THE FORT by Philip P. Bliss, with illustrations by L. B. Humphrey and Robert Lewis, engraved by John Andrew and Son, S. S. Conant, published by William F. Gill and Company, Boston, John Church and Company, Cincinnati, 1877. 12mo, gilt edge pages with song lyrics and engraved illustrations, hardbound in green cloth with gilt blindstamped front cover and gilt lettering to spine, brown end papers. Does not retain dust jacket. 7 5/8" H x 6 1/4" W x 1/2" D. 6th item: THE COTTON KINGDOM: A TRAVELER'S OBSERVATION ON COTTON AND SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAN SLAVE STATES, by Frederick Law Olmsted, edited with an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1953. Octavo, 626 pages, hardbound in blue cloth with remnants of gilt decorations to cover and lettering to spine. Does not retain dust jacket. 9 3/4" H x 6 5/8" W x 1 3/4" D.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Covers with scuffs, wear, bumped corners. Pages with toning, handling wear. 2nd item: Back section of pages, starting around page 77, are becoming separated from spine. 4th item: Pages are becoming separated from spine. 5th item: Wear, water rings to front cover.