Mammy's Cracklin' Bread and Other Poems
Philadelphia: Press of I.W. Klopp & Co., 1916. First Edition. Octavo, 59 pages, publisher's original pictorial brown wraps with cover Illustration by the Author. Mammy’s Cracklin’ Bread and Other Poems is the scarce 1916 first edition poetry collection by Theodore Henry Shackelford, an African American poet whose work reflects the post-Paul Laurence Dunbar era of Black dialect and lyric verse. Published in Philadelphia by the Press of I. W. Klopp Co., the volume gathers poems of domestic memory, religious feeling, humor, sentiment, and African American life in the early twentieth century, including pieces written in dialect as well as more formal literary English. With its author-designed cover illustration and uncommon survival, the book is a desirable work for collectors of African American literature, early twentieth-century American poetry, and Philadelphia imprint history. Some slight creases to wraps, previous owner's inscription, else in very good condition. Item #337
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