Jones Jackson Patricia (58 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Publisher's card-stock wrappers, octavo, pp. xxvii, 189. Illustrations. GOOD condition with shelf and handling wear. Rear cover has a long diagonal crease.

PAPERBACK, very good copy with only slight wear to edges of cover. JONES-JACKSON, PATRICIA. When roots die: endangered traditions on the Sea Islands. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1989, later printing, xxviii, 189pp., . Celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson describes folkways and beliefs that have endured for more than two hundred years. 9780820311210 ISBN 0820311219.

First edition. Hardcover book complete in its original dust jacket. 24 cm. 189 pages. Contains black-and-white illustrations throughout. Foreword by Charles Joyner. The book is in near fine condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, interior pages bright. Moderate edge wear/tear/bumping, rubbing to the dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: As New. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. The ten essays in The Crucible of Carolina explore the connection between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Africa the Caribbean, and England. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Book is an almost New condition. Dustjacket shows vary light edge and corner wear. ; B & W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 189 pages; This book is a study of the history and culture of the African-Americans who live on the Sea Islands off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. African-American author, Patricia Jones-Jackson died before this book was in print.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hardcover/pub.1987/Gd. condition/183 pages - Endangered traditions on the Sea Islands. (A3115z).

Second Printing. Octavo (24cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xxxii],[1],2-189,[3]pp; black and white photographs (halftones) throughout. Spine ends very gently nudged, with modest foxing to edges of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped with trivial wear and rubbing to extremities, and mild wear to flaps; Near Fine. Jones-Jackson's studies of the of "the free descendants of slaves from Barbados and West Africa" and the culture and creole ("Gullah" in South Carolina; "Geechee" in Georgia) language they sustain (from front flap). Concludes with Selected Bibliography and Index. [82316].

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