Mardi Gras Indians, Pelican Publishing Company, 1995, Near Fine hardcover w/dust jacket

Smith, Michael P. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1995.

English, Near Fine, HC, Folio, 12 3/8" x 9 3/8", 160 pp. 

ISBN: 0882898965

Hardcover in blue cloth. Near Fine blue pictorial dust jacket, light creasing to top edge, now in Mylar. 160 pp. Includes more than 100 reproductions of color photographs. From inside the dust jacket: "Michael P. Smith evaluates the historical observations of the music and dance from colonial New Orleans' Congo Square and makes comparisons between these and similar celebrations found in Africa. This book is the first comprehensive study on how Afro-Creole, vernacular musical, and social traditions developed and varied over a period of nearly four hundred years in New Orleans."