LYRICS FROM COTTONLAND/SONGS MERRY AND SAD, McNeill 1922 Black Americana Songs

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USED, with light wear and aging. Please see description and photos for more details.

LYRICS FROM COTTONLAND/SONGS MERRY AND SAD, McNeill 1922 Black Americana Songs

Product Description

Lyrics from Cottonland & Songs Merry and Sad 2 Volumes

by John Charles McNeill

Idyllic poetry inspired by the countryside of Richmond, North Carolina.

"John Charles McNeill was the second son of Duncan and Euphemia Livingston McNeill, and was born at their country place, near Laurinburg, in Richmond county, N.C. on July 26, 1874. He grew to manhood on his father's farm, living the free, happy, normal life of the country boy. On the surface these early years seem to have been uneventful; they were marked by no unusual experiences or incidents. Work, study, and play seem to tell the story. But the achievements of his maturer years show these early days to have been the determining, formative period of his life. A careful and sympathetic examination of his writings disocers the fact that almost all the dreams, visions, loves, adorations and ecstasies to which he gave such beautiful expression, came to him in the honest work, clean, healthful play and idle roaming about wood and field, i those early and always to him, happy days. He knew and loved all the sights, voices and moods of nature; he was nature's child, and was true through all after years to this Mother of the Mystery."

Lyrics from Cottland 189, Songs Merry and Sad 106 pages. 5.25" by 7.5"

More about the author

2 Volumes. Second Printing. Drawings by A.B. Frost, E.W. Kemble, and photographs by Mrs. W.O. Kibble

Published by: Stone Publishing CO., Charlotte, NC. 1922

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a FAIR DJ.

Lyrics from Cottonland features photographs by Mrs. W.O. Kibble.
Includes illustrated red slip cover.
Both volumes feature red gingham design with thin plastic dust jacket.
Spine features title in bold letter.
Features frontispiece.
interior of both volumes is pristine.
Binding is tight.
Slipcover is age toned and soiled with missing 3.5" piece along top, flaking to perimeter and faint pencil marks to bottom left.
Dust jacket is very brittle.
No writing, highlighting, underlining or other intentional marks.
Book may exhibit additional minor signs of age or wear.
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