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Songs of Jamaica

Title
Songs of Jamaica / by Claude McKay ; with an introduction by Walter Jekyll, author of "Jamaican song and story."
Author
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
Publication
Kingston, Jamaica : Aston W. Gardner & Co. ; London : Jamaica Agency, Gamage Building, Holborn, 1912.

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TextUse in library Sc Rare 821-M (McKay, C. Songs of Jamaica)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Additional Authors
  • Jekyll, Walter.
  • Aston W. Gardner & Co., publisher.
  • Jamaica Agency (London, England), publisher.
  • Edinburgh Press, printer.
Description
140 p., [1] leaf of plates : port., music; 19 cm
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
Note
  • With a half-title.
  • "Appendix of tunes"--p. [133]-140.
  • "Printed at the Edinburgh Press, 9 and 11 Young Street."--colophon, p. 140.
Provenance (note)
  • inscribed: in ink on frontispiece portrait "To Arthur Schomburg. Yours sincerely Claude McKay." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
Preface -- Quashie to buccra -- Me bannabees -- Lub o' mine -- Taken aback -- Little Jim -- Jim at sixteen -- Whe' fe do? -- King Banana -- Pleading -- The biter bit -- Out of debt -- The hermit -- Fetchin' water -- School-teacher Nell's lub-letter -- Nellie White -- Retribution -- To E.M.E. -- Hard times -- Cudjoe fresh from de lecture -- De days dat are gone -- Reveille soun'in' -- Old England -- Dat dirty rum -- Heart-stirrings -- De dog-rose -- A midnight woman to the bobby -- Mother dear -- kite-flying -- Ione -- Killin' nanny -- My native land, my home -- Two-an'-six -- Compensation -- Heartless Rhoda -- A dream -- Rise and fall -- Beneath the yampy shade -- To Inspector W.E. Clark -- To Clarendon Hills and H.A.H. -- When you want a bellyful -- Strokes of the tamarind switch -- My pretty Dan -- Ribber come-do'n -- A country girl -- My soldier-lad -- My mountain home -- To Bennie -- Hopping off the tram -- To a comrade -- Jubba -- Appendix of tunes.
Call Number
Sc Rare 821-M (McKay, C. Songs of Jamaica)
OCLC
27469567
Author
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
Title
Songs of Jamaica / by Claude McKay ; with an introduction by Walter Jekyll, author of "Jamaican song and story."
Imprint
Kingston, Jamaica : Aston W. Gardner & Co. ; London : Jamaica Agency, Gamage Building, Holborn, 1912.
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 821-M (accession no. B880407) inscribed: in ink on frontispiece portrait "To Arthur Schomburg. Yours sincerely Claude McKay." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Local Note
Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-6404. NN
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Added Author
Jekyll, Walter.
Aston W. Gardner & Co., publisher.
Jamaica Agency (London, England), publisher.
Edinburgh Press, printer.
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, inscriber.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 821-M (McKay, C. Songs of Jamaica)
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