SLAVE SONGS OF THE GEORGIA SEA ISLANDS

by Lydia Parrish

$300 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

NY: Creative Age Press, 1942. Music transcribed by Creighton Churchill and Robert MacGimsey. Introduction by Olin Downes. First edition. 4to. 256 pp. Illustrated, plates. Signed by the author on the half title. Willingham/Harwell Georgiana 123: A singular and valuable contribution to the subject of Afro-American song. Black cloth, pictorial onlay on upper cover; portions of dust jacket affixed to endpapers, fore-edge spotted, else very good. Item #49538

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