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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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- Additional Authors
- 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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- Local Subject
- Black author.
- 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)