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Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 252

Three Volumes of Jamaican and African American Folk Tales.

Estimate: $200 - $300

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(Folklore) Three Volumes of Jamaican and African American Folk Tales. Comprising: Voodoo Tales, as Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest (Putnam?s, 1893), cream cloth, illus.; Lyrics from Cotton Land (Charlotte, 1907), paisley cloth lettered in white, inset oval pictorial portrait, edges stained red; and Mama?s Black Nurse Stories (Edinburgh and London, 1890), pictorial cloth. Overall good condition, bookplates and annotations to prelims., some wear at spine ends.