[Autographed by Tad and Scip:] Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip of Heaven and Hell with Other Miscellany. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1927. Autographed Edition, 41/200 copies. Cloth, patterned boards with light fading; slight edge-wear; pale, minor, and light dampstains to outer margins of first sixty pages; very good. Autograph Edition of this “collection of authentic stories of Negro life in South Carolina” based upon African-American fables and songs told to this white folklorist by Blacks who worked his land. Adjacent to their autographs is an annotation (“The signatures of Scip and Tad themselves”) in Adams hand, signed at the end as E. Tad was an accomplished rhythm bones player. His songs were recorded in 1939 by Charles Seeger for the WPA. Aesop Goodson, his father, served in South Carolina’s House of Representatives during Reconstruction. Scip was a Gullah preacher and long-term worker on Adams’s farm. Meally, editor, 1987 ed. In addition to the author’s autograph on the limitation page, this copy warmly inscribed and signed by the author as Ned Adams, datelined Columbia, South Carolina, 1928. At the bottom of all, two handwritten lines read: Tad says’Scip can not write Scip he can only sign what he write. The Introduction by Paul Green is intriguing; it is less referential to the book and more so a lengthy essay celebrating the African American leaders, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, and praising a world filled with the likes of Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, James Weldon, et al. All books are guaranteed to be as described. Any item is returnable for any reason within 30 days of receipt (prior notice appreciated). Items are carefully and professionally packed, bubbled and boxed, to ensure their safe arrival. We leave feedback for buyers once they have posted feedback for us. Our priority is to make customers happy and to resolve problems as promptly as possible. Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC. Ian Brabner is a rare book dealer specializing in 18th century and 19th century American history based in Wilmington, Delaware. Member: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “americana-rare” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Year Printed: 1927
- Modified Item: Yes
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Topic: African Americana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Region: North America
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Author: Edward C.L. Adams
- Subject: South Carolina
- Personalized: Yes
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Language: English
- Signed: Yes
- Special Attributes: Autographed Edition, 1st Edition, Inscribed, Limited Edition
