Fine Books & Manuscripts
Sat, Feb 26, 2022 12:00PM EST
Lot 471
YOUNG, Martha Strudwick (?Eli Shepperd?) (1862?1941). Plant...
Estimate: $250 - $350
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YOUNG, Martha Strudwick (?Eli Shepperd?) (1862?1941). Plantation Songs: For My Lady?s Banjo and Other Negro Lyrics & Monologues. New York: R.H. Russell, 1901. 8vo. Numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings ?from life? by J.W. Otts. Original publisher?s pictorial brown cloth stamped in green, brown, and orange (small stain to lower cover, else fine). Provenance: George Cukor, American film director (bookplate designed by Paul Landacre). FIRST EDITION, a rare work using dialect poetry to recount Southern folk tales and songs.
