The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Complete Three-Volume Set
A complete first-printing set with a documented Black women’s ownership history linking scholarship, collecting, and cultural preservation.
Why this set matters
Edited by Gloria T. Hull for the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, these volumes bring together Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, diaries, and activist writing.
The set restores the breadth of a Black woman whose work crossed literature, education, suffrage, racial justice, and political organizing.
Why this particular set
This is the complete matched 1988 Oxford University Press three-volume first printing, identified by the complete number line and set ISBN. The books remain sound, clean, and unmarked, with only normal age-related discoloration. Their ownership history also documents Black women preserving and carrying Black women’s scholarship across generations.
Edition details
- Author
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Editor
- Gloria T. Hull
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication
- 1988
- Edition
- First printing, complete number line
- Series
- The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
- Format
- Pocket-size hardcover set
- Pagination
- Volume 1: 480 pages; Volume 2: 384 pages; Volume 3: 352 pages
- Set ISBN
- 0-19-505267-6
- Inventory
- AKOMA-RB-0044
Condition
Pocket-size hardcover set in excellent overall condition. The bindings are sound. There is no odor, internal marking, tearing, tape, or repair. Normal age-related discoloration is present. The photographs form part of the condition description and show the exact set offered.
Provenance
From the Janice Taheera Harper Collection; previously owned by Adelaide E. Simms of Brooklyn, a friend and travel companion of Black labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and internationalist Vicki Garvin. Harper was a Brooklyn educator and literacy scholar whose work centered African American children’s literature and literacy development.
About Janice Taheera Harper · Provenance and Intellectual Lineage
Research note
Akoma examined the physical set and reviewed edition, condition, and ownership evidence before setting the asking price. The public description reflects the specific complete set offered.