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Mules and Men by HURSTON Zora Neale

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Mules and Men
Author
HURSTON Zora Neale
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1935. First Edition. HURSTON, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1935. Octavo, modern full blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, original brown cloth front board and spine perserved at rear of text. $3500.First edition of Hurston's first non-fiction work—""the perfect book"" (Alice Walker)—hailed as ""the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore,"" widely viewed as her masterpiece.To Alice Walker, who discovered Hurston through Mules and Men, she was ""The Genius of the South""—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). ""The first popular book about Afro-American folklore ever written by a Black scholar, Mules and Men so compellingly displays the rich imaginative life in a Black community that Alan Lomax has called it 'the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore.'"" Hurston's influence on African literary tradition continues to grow,"" and Mules and Men stands as ""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 in New Orleans, she began ""exploring the ways Black history affected folk narratives."" Offering several versions to publishers from 1929 to 1934, ""the book's core—70 folktale texts—remained the same… [but] not until her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine [1934], 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). Hurston ""embraced anthropology's belief that rigorous and systematic training provided its practitioners with a unique vision of the world… but where she departed from convention was in her choice of subject matter. To study her own people as a native anthropologist ran counter to the prevailing intellectual winds. Further, her blurring of literary conventions with ethnographic data was a challenge of which she was keenly aware. Hurston's willingness to go against the grain and to experiment with new ethnographic styles and methods positions her as the foremother of what is today called interpretative anthropology, or the new ethnography"" (McClaurin, Zora Neale Hurston). Introduction by Franz Boas. Containing frontispiece, title-page vignette and eight illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias, many full page; musical scores and lyrics. Without the scarce dust jacket. Blockson 852. Jordan 323.13. Front pastedown with beauty salon ownership inscription dated 1935.Pages generally clean, title page and second half title with minor offsetting; spine and board edges darkened, extremities rubbed. A very good copy.
Ask Yo-D ler [Card game box title]

Ask Yo-D ler [Card game box title]

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Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC
Title
Ask Yo-D ler [Card game box title]
Seller
Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Askyo-Deler Co, 1912. Very good. 27 (of 28) 3½” x 2½” cards in a 3½” x 2¾” clothcovered cardboard box. Very good: one card lacking; box a bit edge worn but sturdy; cards fresh with a touch of scuffing. This is a rare work of advertising and product placement in the form of an illustrated card game manufactured in New York. Each card features the name of a product, a relevant illustration, and four taglines, one of which is printed in red. There are seven numbered “suits” of four cards each, labeled “Clerks,” “Jobbers,” “Manufacturers” or “Retailers.” The “Clerks” card is missing from group 3. We imagine the point of the game could be to collect all the cards in a category, played a la “Authors” or “Go Fish,” or maybe by players guessing the correct slogan for each good. The cards advertise brands of skin cream, toothpaste, talcum powder, coffee, high heels and safety razors, Campbell's Soup, the Victor Talking Machine, “French Pocket Hat” and more. Volume 181 of the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office shows that the patent application for the game was filed in May 1912, with the trademark registered that August. This box indicates that the game was issued in between those months. A rare, illustrated advertising game in excellent condition. Not recorded in OCLC.
The Sultan's Perfect Tree.
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The Sultan's Perfect Tree. by YOLEN, Jane.

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Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
Title
The Sultan's Perfect Tree.
Author
YOLEN, Jane.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780819308641
Condition
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description
NY:: Parents' Magazine Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0819308641 . First edition. Paper clip impression at the top of the first few pages, else very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. .
Jupiter

Jupiter by Astronomy. Simon, Seymour (Auth)

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Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Title
Jupiter
Author
Astronomy. Simon, Seymour (Auth)
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: William Morrow & Co (1985). Glossy pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light surface rubbing. All about the giant, stormy planet, illustrated with photographs. Fascinating.. First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Square 4to.

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