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Haiti Singing
by Courlander, Harold
- Used
- very good
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
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Madison, Wisconsin
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£123.15
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1939. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [10], xi-xii, [2], 273, [1] pp. Brick cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs, facsimiles of sheet music, and a few figures. A history of singing, dancing, music, and folklore in Haiti. In this volume 185 songs are recorded in Creole and translated into English, with melodies for 126 of them included. A Very Good book, slightly askew with foxing to the top textblock; dust jacket is Very Good+ with a few traces of edge wear and toning.
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- book dealer
- Evening Star Books
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 00008327
- Title
- Haiti Singing
- Author
- Courlander, Harold
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- second hand - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1939
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