xvi, [2], 90, [1] pp. Introduction by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated with 24 portrait plates from photographic-like drawings of various African Americans (young and old) by the author. 2 copies in variant but original bindings and sizes: 7½x5, green cloth, lettered in gilt; and 8½x6¼, decorative gray cloth with black silhouette over white background and gilt borders on front cover, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Editions.

Author's second book, comprising of 23 dialect poems and ballads, accompanied by portraits of African-Americans from the Old South. BAL 7133.