Published by Amistad, 2008
ISBN 10: 0061350176 ISBN 13: 9780061350177
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1990
ISBN 10: 0060916486 ISBN 13: 9780060916480
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Published by Indiana University Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0253202086 ISBN 13: 9780253202086
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Published by Quality Book Club, 1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0965109062 ISBN 13: 9780965109062
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by Caedmon Audio, 1994
ISBN 10: 0788700006 ISBN 13: 9780788700002
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Audio Cassette. Condition: Good. Former Library 5 Cassettes in vinyl clam shell case. Has normal Library markings on box and outside of tapes including card holder/reference sticker and library call number. Cover has cover scuff and marks and shows minor wear.
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Published by Indiana University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0253339324 ISBN 13: 9780253339324
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Published by Quality Paperback Book Club
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Published by Library of America, 1995
ISBN 10: 0940450844 ISBN 13: 9780940450844
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. This Library of America volume, with its companion, brings together for the first time all of the best writing of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most significant twentieth-century American writers, in one authoritative set.Folklore is the arts of the people, Hurston wrote, before they find out that there is any such thing as art. A pioneer of African-American ethnography who did graduate study in anthropology with the renowned Franz Boas, Hurston devoted herself to preserving the black folk heritage. In Mules and Men (1935), the first book of African-American folklore written by an African American, she returned to her native Florida and to New Orleans to record stories and sermons, blues and work songs, childrens games, courtship rituals, and formulas of voodoo doctors. This classic work is presented here with the original illustrations by the great Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias.Tell My Horse (1938), part ethnography, part travel book, vividly recounts the survival of African religion in Jamaican obeah and Haitian voodoo in the 1930s. Keenly alert to political and intellectual currents, Hurston went beyond superficial exoticism to explore the role of these religious systems in their societies. The text is illustrated by twenty-six photographs, many of them taken by Hurston. Her extensive transcriptions of Creole songs are here accompanied by new translations.A special feature of this volume is Hurstons controversial 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. With consultation by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it is presented here for the first time as she intended, restoring passages omitted by the original because of political controversy, sexual candor, or fear of libel. Included in an appendix are four additional chapters, one never published, which represent earlier stages of Hurstons conception of the book.Twenty-two essays, from The Eatonville Anthology (1926) to Court Order Cant Make Races Mix (1955), demonstrate the range of Hurstons concerns as they cover subjects from religion, music, and Harlem slang to Jim Crow and American democracy.The chronology of Hurstons life prepared for this edition sheds fresh light on many aspects of her career. In addition, this volume contains detailed notes and a brief essay on the texts.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Published by Quality Paperback Books, New York, 1990
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have light wear. edges of pages have light wear, toning and some very light foxing.
Published by Grapevine India, 2022
ISBN 10: 9394270701 ISBN 13: 9789394270701
Seller: Pages Books on Kensington, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Published by Quality Paperback Book Club
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Published by The Library of America, N.Y., 1995
ISBN 10: 0940450844 ISBN 13: 9780940450844
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. A very fine, clean and tight copy in slipcase. Stated First Printing The Library of America-75. A very nice copy in like unread condition.
Published by Quality Paper Books, New York, 1990
Seller: Bookish Me, Plainfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This edition of the original 1934 book by Zora Neale Hurston was specifically created in 1990 for Quality Paperback Books by arrangement with Harper & Row, Publishers. Inc. and copyrighted by Book-of the Month Club, Inc. Forward by Rita Dove. Cover illustration by David Diaz.
Published by Negro Universities Press, 1969
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). First Thus. First issued in 1935 and called "the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore" (Alan Lomax), this collection of folk tales by the great Harlem writer was reissued in a new edition by the now defunct Negro Universities Press to meet growing demand for the work of a rediscovered author that was almost impossible to obtain With the introduction by Frank Boas and the ten illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. In a quality aquamarine cloth binding with black title. A fine, clean and unmarked copy. Uncommon in this edition.
New York, Literary Classics of the United States Inc., 1995, 5th printing, (10),1001,(6) pag., india-paper, original gilt cloth with dustjacket. = The Library of America 75. Owner's stamp on title and and on upper and lower edge of bookblock.
New York, Literary Classics of the United States Inc., 1995, 5th printing, (10),1001,(6) pag., india-paper, original gilt cloth with dustjacket. = The Library of America 75.
Published by Perennial Library/ Harper & Row, New York
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 3 book lot in edge worn slipcase. Books look unread. Expedited or International shipping may cost more.
Published by Library of America, New York, 1995
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. As-new, in publisher's shrink wrap.The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.
Published by Harper Perennial, 1990
Seller: Archives Books inc., Edmond, OK, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Good. Slipcase in Good conditioin. No markings on text. (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust tracks on the Road, Mules and Men). Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.
Published by Library of America, New York, 1995
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First editions of the Library of American compilations of the works of both fiction and non-fiction of Zora Neale Hurston. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Edited by Cheryl A. Wall. Fine in fine dust jackets. These volumes bring together for the first time all of Zora Neale Hurston's best works in one authoritative set.
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1935
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
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Handsomely bound in finely woven orange cloth with a drawing of an alligator the front boards. A very, clean, crisp, and tight throughout. With the front flap of the dust jacket glued to the front endpaper. From the May Company Lending Library (cancelled).With a touch of wear to the extremities and white lettering to the bottom of the spine. With an appendix "Negro Songs with Music" from p 309-332. A clean and smoke-free copy. Note: African American choral leader Hall Johnson worked with Walt Disney; and the Hall Johnson Choir was featured in the soundtracks on Snow White, Dumbo, and Song of the South. Hall Johnson was a highly regarded choral director, composer, arranger, and violinist who dedicated his career to preserving the integrity of the Black spiritual as it had been performed during the era of slavery. His Hall Johnson Choir, the first professional group of its kind, enjoyed a successful concert and recording career for more than three decades in the United States and abroad. During his professional life Johnson coached hundreds of distinguished musicians, including the famous opera singer Marian Anderson. Virtually every Black singer of note has performed Johnson s solo compositions and arrangements. Born on March 12, 1888, in Athens, Georgia, Hall Johnson was the son of William Decker Johnson, a minister, and Alice Virginia Sansom, a former slave. Johnson was given his first at age 14, with which he taught himself to play. Athens was home to a large, prosperous African American middle class, with excellent schools, and Johnson did well. He graduated from the preparatory school in 1903 and then moved on to Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, where his father had recently been named president. In 1908, Johnson switched his studies to the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving his college degree in 1912, Johnson returned to Athens. Johnson gained a reputation as an excellent music teacher, and played violin in the orchestras of several Broadway productions, performing behind great entertainers such as Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, and Josephine Baker. He found additional work in more than one dance band, including a stint touring the United States with a group known as the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. In 1923, he took the seat of the violinist in a chamber music group he helped form called the Negro String Quartet. The group performed pieces across a wide spectrum from the standard classical canon to contemporary pieces by African Americans. Johnson produced his own Broadway musical in 1933, Run Little Chillun, a production he called a folk opera. Johnson worked with Walt Disney; and the Hall Johnson Choir was featured in the soundtracks on Snow White, Dumbo, and Song of the South. Over his lifetime, Johnson was a consummate breaker of barriers, and not just between White and Black or between the world of churches and the world of mass entertainment. On April 30, 1970, Johnson died when a fire broke out in his New York apartment building. This volume is from Hall Johnson s library, much of which was salvaged from the Brooklyn fire. Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American South and immersed herself in local cultural practices to conduct her anthropological research. Based on her work in the South, sponsored from 1928 to 1932 by Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy philanthropist, Hurston wrote Mules and Men in 1935. She was doing research in lumber camps and commented on the practice of white men in power taking black women as sexual concubines, including having them bear children. This later was referred to as "paramour rights," based in the men's power under racial and related to practices during slavery times. The book also includes much folklore. She used this material as well in fictional treatment developed for her novels such as Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934). In 1936 and 1937, Hurston traveled to Jamaica and Haiti for research, with support from the Guggenheim Foundation. She drew f.
Published by Lippincott. Philadelphia. 1935., 1935
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
VG-/Fair. First Edition. Dust jacket is in four pieces; front, back, front end flap, rear end flap. Missing jacket spine. 343 pp. Jacket worn, but present. Previous owner bookplate on front inside cover.
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1935
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition of Hurston's classic work, "the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore" (Alan Lomax). Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Introduction by Franz Boas. Rare and desirable. "Hurston's influence on African literary tradition continues to grow," and Mules and Men remains "a key text in African American literary and cultural studies" (Wall in African American Writers, 175). Even amidst the brilliance of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston's "presence was legendary." Trained as an anthropologist at Barnard, she studied with Franz Boas, who "recognized her genius immediately." On returning to her home state of Florida, Eatonville and New Orleans, she began "exploring the ways black history affected folk narratives." Offering several versions to publishers from 1929 to 1934, "the book's coreâ"70 folktale textsâ"remained the same⦠[but] not until her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, had been accepted by Lippincott's did Mules and Men find a publisher." While some questioned her refusal to focus on black resentment of whites, Hurston was "determined to prove that black people did not devote their lives to a morose discussion of white injustice." To Hurston, black folk traditions were always the "more beautiful, the more viable, the more human tradition" (Hemenway, 6, 60-63, 159-63, 221-26). To Alice Walker, who discovered Hurston through Mules and Men, she was "The Genius of the South"â"words Walker engraved on Hurston's gravestone. "When I read Mules and Men, I was delighted. Here was the perfect book." To Walker, it embodied "the quality I feel in most characteristic of Zora's work⦠black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings"(emphasis in original, Foreword, Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston, xii).
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1935
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
Handsomely bound in finely woven orange cloth with a drawing of an alligator the front boards. A very, clean, crisp, and tight throughout. With uniform oxidation on the title page. Inscribed on the half-title page: "Mother and Father from Norman and Nan, Christmas, 1935". With a touch of wear to the extremities and a faint crease along the spine. An attractive and collectible copy. Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American South and immersed herself in local cultural practices to conduct her anthropological research. Based on her work in the South, sponsored from 1928 to 1932 by Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy philanthropist, Hurston wrote Mules and Men in 1935. She was doing research in lumber camps and commented on the practice of white men in power taking black women as sexual concubines, including having them bear children. This later was referred to as "paramour rights," based in the men's power under racial and related to practices during slavery times. The book also includes much folklore. She used this material as well in fictional treatment developed for her novels such as Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934). In 1936 and 1937, Hurston traveled to Jamaica and Haiti for research, with support from the Guggenheim Foundation. She drew from this for her anthropological work, Tell My Horse (1938). From October 1947 to February 1948, she lived in Honduras, at the north coastal town of Puerto Cortés. She had some hopes of locating either Mayan ruins or vestiges of an as yet undiscovered civilization. While in Puerto Cortés, she wrote much of Seraph on the Suwanee, set in Florida. Hurston expressed interest in the polyethnic nature of the population in the region (many, such as the Miskito Zambu and Garifuna, were of partial African ancestry and had developed creole cultures). (Wikipedia) First Edition with the copyright of 1935 and no subsequent printings listed.
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1935
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition of Hurston's classic work, "the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore" (Alan Lomax). Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Mrs. Scott One of God's best angels Zora Neale Hurston Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 20, 1936." Introduction by Franz Boas. In very good condition with a large portion of the front panel of the original dust jacket tipped in opposite the title page, a small original photograph of Zora Neal Hurston laid in and her obituary tipped in which notes that she "died in obscurity and poverty on January 28, 1960." Additional newspaper clippings related to Hurston tipped in at front and rear. Embossed bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable. First editions of any of Hurstonâs books are rare, presentation copies exceedingly so. "Hurston's influence on African literary tradition continues to grow," and Mules and Men remains "a key text in African American literary and cultural studies" (Wall in African American Writers, 175). Even amidst the brilliance of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston's "presence was legendary." Trained as an anthropologist at Barnard, she studied with Franz Boas, who "recognized her genius immediately." On returning to her home state of Florida, Eatonville and New Orleans, she began "exploring the ways black history affected folk narratives." Offering several versions to publishers from 1929 to 1934, "the book's coreâ"70 folktale textsâ"remained the same⦠[but] not until her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, had been accepted by Lippincott's did Mules and Men find a publisher." While some questioned her refusal to focus on black resentment of whites, Hurston was "determined to prove that black people did not devote their lives to a morose discussion of white injustice." To Hurston, black folk traditions were always the "more beautiful, the more viable, the more human tradition" (Hemenway, 6, 60-63, 159-63, 221-26). To Alice Walker, who discovered Hurston through Mules and Men, she was "The Genius of the South"â"words Walker engraved on Hurston's gravestone. "When I read Mules and Men, I was delighted. Here was the perfect book." To Walker, it embodied "the quality I feel in most characteristic of Zora's work⦠black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings"(emphasis in original, Foreword, Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston, xii).