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Tell my horse

Title
Tell my horse / by Zora Neale Hurston.
Author
Hurston, Zora Neale
Publication
  • Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, [1938]
  • ©1938

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Additional Authors
J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.
Description
301 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music; 22 cm
Summary
The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.
Subject
  • Vodou
  • Haitians
  • National characteristics, Haitian
  • voodoo
  • National characteristics, Haitian
  • Haitians
  • Manners and customs
  • Politics and government
  • Vodou
  • Jamaica > Social life and customs
  • Haiti > Social life and customs
  • Haiti > Politics and government
  • Haiti
  • Jamaica
Genre/Form
Dust jackets (Binding) – 1938.
Note
  • First edition.
  • Illustrated lining papers.
  • "Songs of worship to voodoo gods" (words and music)--Pages 279-301.
  • "First edition, first printing. Signed by author on the verso of the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher’s original red and blue striped cloth with titles in white on the spine. Boards lightly bowed and top stain is splashed and lightly wormed, else a Fine copy with vivid cloth and very sharp stamping. In a Near Find dust jacket with worming to areas on the white portions and light edge wear, otherwise a very bright example."--dealer's description.
Contents
Jamaica -- Politics and personalities of Haiti -- Voodoo in Haiti.
LCCN
38027934
OCLC
  • ocm00543146
  • 543146
  • SCSB-251595
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library