1938 1st Edition TELL MY HORSE by Zora Neal HURSTON VG Book Voodoo in Haiti

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1938 1st Edition TELL MY HORSE by Zora Neal HURSTON Very Good Voodoo in Haiti
Hardcover 1st edition, second printing 1938, no dust jacket. Published by Lippincott, Philadelphia, 301 pages with 26 photographic illustrations and pictorial endpapers. Appendix has 22 pages of “” Songs of Worship to Voodoo gods” words (in French) with musical score.
Measures:
8 3/4
”
x 6
”
x 1 1/2
”
.
Very good condition for age with a scuff/scratch on the front cover, without any marks on the inside or odors. T
he page edges have a rough, almost torn ‘deckle edge’ quality and some has small splits.
Shelf wear to edges and corners, outside bottom-most edge of spine a bit tattered and
pages slightly yellowed
.
An autobiographical book on the author’s time spent in Haiti and observations on the religion of Voodoo.
From the internet:  "Hurston's novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South. Her work in anthropology examined black folklore. Hurston influenced many writers, forever cementing her place in history as one of the foremost female writers of the 20th century."
_gsrx_vers_1292 (GS 8.3.6 (1292))