Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson

Negro Workaday Songs [signed]

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (6-1/4 x 9 inches). Black cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and spine. Inscribed by Odum to front free endpaper. xii, 278pp. First Edition of this early work on African-American musicology from American sociologist Howard W. Odum (1884-1954), who is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of folk sociology and sociological education in the American South. This copy inscribed by Odum to front free end paper in black ink: " to Dr. Charles Minor / with appreciation / Howard W. Odum". Already scarce in its first state, especially so signed. Boards soiled and rubbed; lightly edgeworn; spine slightly cocked; text block soiled; some damp staining towards spine ends of leaves; Good only. Item #3503

Price: $200.00