A very scarce imprint giving what appear to be fictional accounts of black and mulatto children in the South following reconstruction.

The first recount seeing four black "Nubian" children basking in the mid-day sun, contrasting their love for the heat with their need for parasols and shade. It contains extensive black-colloquial passages, phrases such as "some of dem n**** shlda neve bin freed" etc. The next, The Black and the Gray Prince, details the life of a young mulatto, etc. Illustrated. 

No copies on the market at any price. 

Farman, Ella and Laurie Loring. Strangers from the South, and Other Stories. Boston. D. Lothrop and Company. 1877. 64pp.

Very attractive screenprint cloth binding.

Good - Some rubbing as shown, at hinges and corners more significantly. Hinges a bit shaken, generally handled, but clean and stable with some exposure between signatures.