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Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) Mules and Men, first edition.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1935.
First edition, octavo; including frontispiece, two plates and text illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias; bound in full burnt orange publisher's cloth, stamped in brown, burnt orange top stain (lacking the original dust jacket; cloth lightly dulled, corners just exposed, residue from a removed bookplate to lower pastedown); 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Anthropologist and writer Hurston's important collection of Black American folklore contains stories primarily recorded during visits to her hometown in Eatonville, Florida and New Orleans, Louisiana. The first section is almost entirely dedicated to the many collected folktales, while the second part includes descriptions of voodoo rituals and famous practitioners such as Marie Laveau and Anatol Pierre. Mules and Men initially received mixed reviews, later falling into relative obscurity until it was rediscovered and championed by writer Alice Walker in 1975.
