Dunbar, Alice. The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories. Small 8vo, silver-pictorial green cloth. The Library of Congress duplicate; engraved bookplate 'bequest of Daniel Murray, Washington, D. C. 1925 ' New York: Dodd, Mead, 1899 E800-1200

Dunbar, Alice. The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories. Small 8vo, silver-pictorial green cloth. The Library of Congress duplicate; engraved bookplate 'bequest of Daniel Murray, Washington, D. C. 1925 ' New York: Dodd, Mead, 1899 E800-1200 First Edition. A collection of 14 short stories with a New Orleans setting by the wife of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Daniel Murray, the donor of this book to the Library of Congress was a noted African-American Librarian, bibliographer of African-American authors, and the author of a number of books on African American writers and history. Alice Dunbar edited a collection called the Dunbar Reader following her ex-husband's death, but 'The Goodness of Saint Rocque' is her only published book. Whiteman, page 38; Blockson Collection 5389 See Illustration Above Lot 821