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Canti d’Amore e di Lavoro dei Negri d’America

Graziamaria Griffini, editor

Published Milan: All’Insegna del Pesce d’Oro, 1965

46pp.; 10 x 6.1 cm. Stiff blue patterned paper wraps. White dust-jacket printed in green and black, attached at spine.

Part of Ephemera

Does I love you wid all my heart? -
I loves you wid my liver;
Ah’ if I had you in my mouf,
I’d spit you in de river.

  — Does I Love You?

Anonymous poems from the American Negro, love and work standing aside spirituals and blues. Introduction in Italian. Each song printed English-Italian vis-à-vis. Internally fine, the jacket with a little edge-wear, toned beneath the original band.

40 gbp

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