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"The Pinetown Darky Debating Society."

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 The Pinetown Darky Debating Society.
Pulp book of popular literature of the Gilded Age, including black, German-, and Irish-American parodies - and Shakespearean excerpts! Dick's Recitations and Readings No. 8, ed. by Wm. B. Dick, Fitzgerald Publishing Corp., N.Y., 1878, 4 x 6 1/2, 178 + (16) pp. publisher's advertisements (in 4 point type). Ornamental cover with type in beaded ribbons with floral sprays, red and black on cream. "A carefully compiled Selection of Humorous, Pathetic, Eloquent, Patriotic, and Sentimental Pieces in Poetry and Prose...excluding everything that is not eminently appropriate either for Declamation or Public Reading." Including "Parody on Barbara Frietchie," "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Tennyson, "Christmas Day in the Workhouse," "The Irishman's Panorama," "The Pinetown Darky Debating Society," and much more. Clean 1" tear at spine, opening to horseshoe tear on cover, both repairable, light cover dust-toning, else a New Old Stock example, unread and very fine. This Number excessively rare. WorldCat locates only one copy (University of Penna.).