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Guy, William E.
The Message of the Negro Spiritual
Publisher: Springfield: The Williamson Press (1946).
8vo Printed wraps. 58pp with illustrations from the author's drawings. Includes musical scores and commentary on the history and religious nature of the songs. Tiny chip at spine heel. Near Fine.
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AUD 130.21 | CAD 129.53 | EUR 96.15 | GBP 82.24 | JPY 12,500.00 | MXN 1,388.89 | ZAR 1,250.00 |
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Appleby Books.
Item number: 006483.
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Johnson, James Weldon; J. Rosamond Johnson.
The Books of American Negro Spirituals (Two Volumes in One).
Publisher: New York: Viking Press, 1940..
First Edition thus This book contains "The Book of Negro Spirituals" (1925) and "The Second Book of Negro Spirituals" (1926). Quarto, about 10.25 inches (26 cm) tall, in orange cloth with an enclosed ring binding for purposes of use at the piano. The books are sequential and there are 187 and 189 pages respectively. A clean, bright and sound copy with just a touch of extremity wear. The jacket has minor chipping at and and adjacent to the spine ends, general edge wear and a couple of very short tears. Hardcover Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good Dustjacket
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AUD 67.71 | CAD 67.36 | EUR 50.00 | GBP 42.76 | JPY 6,500.00 | MXN 722.22 | ZAR 650.00 |
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Gallagher Books, ABAA, ILAB.
Item number: 17466.
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McIlhenny, E.A. (Edward Avery).
Befo' de War Spirituals: Words and Melodies.
Publisher: Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1933..
First Edition Octavo, about 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) tall, in gilt stamped purple cloth. 255 pages. Words and music collected by the major figure of the 1930s in the family that produced Tabasco Sauce. A scholarly effort, the author was also a noted naturalist. Bookplate on the front endpaper, that of Louis Brewer Hall, an author and literature professor at the University of Colorado - Denver. Paper just a little toned, but otherwise clean and soundly bound. Covers have a touch of extremity wear. Hardcover Hardcover Very Good+
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AUD 286.46 | CAD 284.97 | EUR 211.54 | GBP 180.92 | JPY 27,500.00 | MXN 3,055.56 | ZAR 2,750.00 |
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Gallagher Books, ABAA, ILAB.
Item number: 15883.
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Yourcenar, Marguerite
Fleuve Profond, Sombre Riviere: Les Negro Spirituals, commentaires et traducions
Publisher: Paris: Gallimard, 1964..
252pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good in a Very Good dj [top & fore edges are age spotted; else nrVG; paperback dust jacket has some small chipping/rubbing to edges; else VG] French translations of American Negro spirituals by the author of "Hadrian's Memoirs," Marguerite de Crayencour, who wrote under the pen name Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87). In 1980 the Belgian-born writer became the first woman elected to the Academie Francaise. Dust jacket illustration is "Tete de negre" by Thomas Eakins.
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AUD 46.88 | CAD 46.63 | EUR 34.62 | GBP 29.61 | JPY 4,500.00 | MXN 500.00 | ZAR 450.00 |
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Auldfarran Books, IOBA.
Item number: 3845.
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