signed first edition Hardcover
1953 · Austin, Texas
by BREWER, J. Mason
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Foreword by J. Frank Dobie. Illustrations by Ralp White, Jr. Octavo. 109pp. Red cloth stamped in black. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. J. Mason Brewer was a poet, noted scholar, and the first African-American member of the Texas Folklore Society. Here he attempts to accurately capture the dialect of Black Texans of the Bravos bottoms.
(Inventory #: 603693)