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Johannesburg: African Music Society, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Illustrated by Merlyn Severn Photographs. Bantu dance in the arena at the Witwatersrand Gold Mines. 20 pages of text describing the dances of the various tribes, 120 b/w full page photos, and a list of gramophone records of typical mine dance music. Spine ends and corners very slightly rubbed, DJ edges and spine ends rubbed, 1/2 x 1 1/4" chip at bottom front of DJ. ; 8 1/2 x 10 1/2
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African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines
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African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines
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Johannesburg: African Music Society. 1952. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth stamped in gold, near fine with mild wear at spine ends, in very good dust jacket with small chips and short tears. Illustrated with many photographs. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 156 pp .
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African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines
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Johannesburg: African Music Society, 1952. First Edition ~1st Printing. Hardcover. good in fair dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; moderate moisture damage to bottom of textblock, heavy edgewear to jacket else a square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket
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African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines
by Tracey, Hugh (author), and Merlyn Severn (photographer)
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(Johannesburg: African Music Society, 1952). 4to; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt dancer device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (xii) + 156; numerous photographs. Dustwrapper somewhat torn, edgeworn and foxed; light bump to top fore-corner of upper board; some foxing to outermost leaves and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition. "Hugh Tracey has long been known for his intimate studies of the music, dances and stories of many of the Bantu Tribes of Southern and Central Africa. His enthusiasm for the art of the genuine African musician, dancer and storyteller was largely responsible for the establishment of the African Music Society of which he is the Honorary Secretary. Born in England, he came to South Africa by way of the tobacco fields of Southern Rhodesia and is now engaged upon the collection of a representative library of gramophone records of African music which he hopes will firmly establish the international…
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AFRICAN DANCES OF THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD MINES
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Johannesburg, South Africa: African Music Society. Good+ with no dustjacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy; usual marks. Otherwise very good, clean and sound. No marks or writing except for those of the library. ; Fully illustrated. Photographs by Merlyn Severn. Dances that were performed by men of the mines. Brief descriptions of each type of dance. Stamping, shaking, pipe, striding, step, acrobatic or tumbling, miming and group singing and orchestral dances of the various groups are examined. ; 4to; 156 pages .
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African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines
by Tracey, Hugh; Severn, Merlyn (photographs)
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Johannesburg, South Africa: African Music Society, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 156 pages, 4to. No DJ. Presentation Copy, with the compliments of the Native Labour Organisations of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine gilt illustration of dancer on front cover. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and cover boards, loose binding, light tanning along page edges. Volume is in Very Good condition..
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African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines
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Johannesburg: African Music Society, 1952. 156pp; frontispiece; illustrations in b/w; d/j worn and faded at spine, bits missing from top end by spine, in clear covering, white title to spine.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Illus. by Severn, Merlyn. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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AFRICAN DANCES OF THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD MINES
by TRACEY, Hugh
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1952. SEVERN, Merlyn. TRACEY, Hugh. AFRICAN DANCES OF THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD MINES. Illustrated by Merlyn Severn. Johannesburg, South Africa: African Music Society, 1952. Small quarto, red cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed inscription by Tracey on the title page: "Hugh Tracey, January 9th, 1953." With "Autograph Copy" written on the front endpaper and bearing the personal bookplate of Genevieve Jackson Beckwith, the first Regent of the Tisbury Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Maine. Also with a 1953 performance schedule on Native Inter-Tribal Dances tipped to the verso of the front endpaper- at the bottom stating "The Public Is Requested Not To Throw Money At The Dancers." Very Good (covers little bowed & bumped); little rubbing (short tears & nicks) d/j. $150.00.
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