The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1925.
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Hardcover. First edition. A thin, horizontal strip of cloth neatly removed from the rear board, some splash marks on the spine, hinges show evidence of an old repair, still a pleasant, near very good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Important modernist poet Hart Crane's copy with his ownership Signature on the front fly. A early scholarly attempt to examine black life in the South in the context of indigenous music. Crane has made several pencil notes in the text, mostly underlining and check marks, and a few words, as well as a list of page numbers indicating songs on the rear pastedown.
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