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KENNEDY, R. EMMET. Mellows: A Chronicle of Unknown Singers. Decorations by Simmons Persons.
NY: Albert and Charles Boni, (1925). - 4to, decorative black & white silk (bumped; silk split at bottom of front joint & top of rear joint); printed blue & white paper labels on front cover & spine (spine label creased & faded). 183pp. (bottom corner of front endpaper creased). Vignettes & illustrations throughout by Simmons Persons. Very good. First edition. Music, text, folklore and a little history of Southern African-American devotionals."Mellow is the Negro word for melody, and by this term their devotional songs are called in southern Louisiana. So redolent of this quality are they that we are reminded of the words of Renan, speaking of the Celtic melodies: 'Like emanations from above they fall, drop by drop, upon the soul and pass through it like the memories of another world.'" -- Excerpted from the Foreword.
Offered for US$ 75.00 by: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. - Book number: 399
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