RARE ✅ NEGRO MYTHS_1888 1st EDT_BLACK AMERICANA_CREOLE LEGENDS_OLD SLAVE STORIES

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Title
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Negro myths from the Georgia coast told in the vernacular,
author
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- Charles Jones
published
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Houghton, Mifflin, & Co
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1888, 1st edition
size:
apx  7
"
by 5" w/
171
pages
binding:
- pictorial hardcover
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154140029947
Contents
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from the preface:
Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has, in an admirable way, commended to public notice the dialect and folk-lore in vogue among the Negroes of Middle Georgia. With fidelity and cleverness has he perpetuated the legends and songs once current among these peoples, and
now fast lapsing into oblivion
. There is, however, a field, largely untrodden, in which may be found ample opportunity for the exhibition of kindred inquiry and humor. We refer to the
swamp region of Georgia and the Carolinas
, where the lingo of the rice-field and the sea-island negroes is sui generis, and where myths and fanciful stories, often repeated before the war, and now seldom heard save during the gayer moods of the old plantation darkies, materially differ from those narrated by the sable dwellers in the interior.....
stories include:
I. How Come Buh Alligatur Nebber Sleep fur from de Ribber  [how come the alligator never sleeps far from the river] II. Buh Tukrey Buzzud an de Rain  III. How Buh Cooter Fool Buh Deer  IV. Buh Wolf, Buh Rabbit, an de Tar Baby  V. Buh Fowl-Hawk an Buh Rooster  VI. Buh Tukrey Buzzud an de King Crab  VII. De King, eh Darter, Buh Wolf, an Buh Rabbit - VIII. Buh Pattridge an Buh Rabbit   IX. De Ole Man an de Gallinipper  X. Buh Sparruh   XI. Buh Alligatur an Buh Mash-Hen  XII. Buh Fowl-Hawk an Buh Tukrey Buzzud  XIII. Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit   XIV. Buh Wolf an de Two Dinner   XV. Buh Owl an Buh Rooster   XVI. Buh Lion an Buh Goat  XVII. Buh Bear an Buh Tiger XVIII. Buh Monkey an de Bull-Dog   XIX. Buh Elephant an Buh Rooster  XX. De Po Man an de Snake  XXI. Leely Gal, Buh Alligatur, an de Jay-Bud   XXII. De Cat, de Rat, de Cheese, an de Fox  XXIII. Buh Rabbit an de Tarruh Beastises .......
PLUS 33 MORE! and a glossary in back in case you don't speak black Americana Southern dialect from 160 years ago!
Condition:
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. all of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees
good condition.... for its age:....
ex-library, but very rare 1st edition!
boards -
very secure, bit dirty & with some spots
textblock
- pages very secure
outer joints
-  good - front one has some wrinkles & some wear[ scuffing] to the back one [zoom in back cover]
spine ends
- fair - wear to the bottom one / top one chipped down / you can see where 2 library stickers
use to be
on the spine [no spine #s]
tips
- very good - a wee bit of wear to the lower tips / front lower wee tip is bent
inner hinges
-  very good
pages
- generally very clean - apx 6 pages with a few spots [worse one shown]
writing
- some #s on endpapers plus another page / all 3 edges of the textblock are stamped "discarded" as is the title page & rear paste-down
rips /folds
- 3 or 4 very small rips that I saw - 2 small chips to top corners [ shown with yellow paper] / no folds
other:
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ex-library
-sticker in front, library pocket in back [old ones!]. But better than paying 0!
-- A VERY RARE ONE FOR YOUR LIBRARY!
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