About this title: Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing evening of ring dances and singing plays. These songs and games, recorded in "Step It Down" by folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes, capture the shape and color of the crowded, impoverished, life-demanding, and life-loving days of the black family of sixty years ago, revealing the strength and vitality of African and slave traditions in black American life.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date Published: 1987-09-01
ISBN-13:9780820309606ISBN:0820309605
Description: Good. Book rated as Good due to bump on bottom edge of book. Page edges are slightly crumpled on corner and on one spot on the edge. No marks or highlighting. Clean, crisp pages. Spine is not creased. read more
Edition: None Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780060117832ISBN:0060117834
Description: Illustrated. Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. PICTORIAL DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR IS LIGHTLY SOILED. YELLOW CLOTH COVER, LIGHT SHELFWEAR TO EDGES. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1972
Description: Very Good in Good+ jacket. Previous owners signature on first page otherwise internally tight and clean. DJ slightly worn at edges by time but other wise in very good condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: (c.1972)
ISBN-13:9780060117832ISBN:0060117834
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good-dj. 0-06-011783-4. [good solid book, a couple of bumped corners, mild soiling to top edge; jacket has a little surface damage (peeling) at top of front panel, 3/4" tear at top rear hinge, moderate rubbing]. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1972
Description: Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very good condition book in a Very good condition dustjacket. Bookplate. Price clipped. Slight edgewear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row 1972c., New York
ISBN-13:9780060117832ISBN:0060117834
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0060117834. 233 Yellow cloth boards. Light bumping to the tail of the spine and to the lower corners. Lettering on the spine is clear and pronounced. Pages are clean, white and crisp. DJ-has light rubbing on the corners. Brodart wrapped. read more
Edition: First Edition, 8th printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780820309606ISBN:0820309605
Description: Mint. 233 pp includes index. Trade Paperback. read more
Description: Good condition, ExLibrary. 233 pp. Harper & Row Publishers. (1972). Hardcover-cloth, index. Recollections of Bessie Jones, born 70 years ago in the small, black farming community of Dawson GA. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
Date Published: 1987-09-01
ISBN-13:9780820309606ISBN:0820309605
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780820309606. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780820309606ISBN:0820309605
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Yellow cloth
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780060117832ISBN:0060117834
Description: Tall octavo. xxii + 234 pages. From the jacket: "The games and plays in this book are the recollections of Bessie Jones, born seventy years ago in the small, black farming community of Dawson, Georgia. Balanced on the edge of real poverty almost all her life, she learned early how to amuse and entertain herself and others. She came from a singing family; in slavery days, her grandparents sang as they worked in the fields, and some of the songs she learned from them were already well over a ... read more
Description: Good. Dust cover is worn and has a tear at the bottom. Pages are clean and unmarked. X-library book with card holder inside cover. read more
Description: Fair. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. Hardcover. Used, acceptable. Cover has some edge wear. Cover has some rubbing. Text pages show modest aging/yellowing. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers
Date Published: 1972
Description: Very Good in Good+ jacket. Hardcover, dust jacket with very light edge wear, cloth binding, owner's name plate, clean, very light shelf wear. We can also custom bind books for special gifts. read more
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