Rare guide to early AAVE

Heading: (African American)
Author: Burdett, James S. (editor)
Title: Burdett's Negro Dialect, Recitations and Readings
Place Published: [New York]
Publisher:[Excelsior Publishing House]
Date Published: [1884]
Description:

152 + [8] ad pp. 16.5x11 cm (6½x4¼"), covers lacking, still holding together. First Edition.

Scarce guide to African-American English drawing from sources just after the Reconstruction Era.
Condition Report: Covers and spine lost; bookseller sticker on bottom of title page, expected toning and foxing with occasional edge tears to pages; internally good, deserving of rebinding.