Martha Strudwick Young (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Later Printing. Covers soiled and worn. Spine darkened. End papers show wear. Light foxing. Marks on end papers. ; Inscribed on ffep by Martha Young. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author. Illustrated by J. M. Conde (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 150 p. 23 cm. Sound and square binding, in tan, cloth-covered boards with stamped, coloured illustration on upper board and spine. There is a short flaw in the binding cloth of the upper board. Quite light wear at corners, spine ends, and along edges. Two bottom fore-corners very lightly bumped. Three small stain marks on the lower board and some light soiling overall. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. All in all, this is a still a very attractive copy. Black American songs and hymns from the American south, written in Negro dialect. The author was a white Alabaman woman named Martha Strudwick Young (1862-1941) , who wrote the book using the pen name Eli Shepperd. Young had learned southern black folk tales and legends during her youth in Greensboro, Alabama. Illustrated with black and white half-tone photographs of life on the plantation by J. W. Otts. …