Lydia Parrish, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands, Creative Age 1942, Very Good hardcover

Parrish, Lydia, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands, New York: Creative Age Press 1942, English, Very Good hardcover 4to, 8 ½” x 11 ¼”, 256 pp.

Black cloth covered boards with minor wear to edges, large black and white portrait inset to front panel, title stamped to front panel and spine in red and white, previous owner bookplate to front free endpaper, cut sections of dust jacket have been carefully attached to first several pages causing minor waffling, interior pages otherwise clean and bright. A deeply researched study of the songs of the unique Gullah culture of the Georgia Sea Islands by Lydia Parrish (wife of Maxwell) with music transcribed by Creighton Churchill and Robert MacGimsey, and with an introduction by Olin Downes. Background and details are given for each song and large black and white photographs illustrate their cultural context. A beautiful, unique, and important document of this lesser known area of the United States.