Harropian Books

[Haiti] Black Bagdad

CRAIGE, John H.

New York & Chicago: A.L. Burt, (1933). Reprint. Hardcover. DJ title "Black Bagdad : The Arabian Nights Adventures of a Marine Captain in Haiti", from A.L. Burt's "Crescent Library" featuring the evocative DJ artwork of Walter Cole and a copyright date of 1933. Black cloth w. title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, 8vo size (8 inches tall), colored endpapers, top edges stained yellow, pp. 276. Volume w. minor bumps and bottom edge of lower board shelf rubbed w. some minor loss to cloth, vintage bookseller's tag pasted onto rear pastedown, price intact DJ w. a touch of foxing to rear panel, some minor chips, light wear and stains. A clean copy. At Least Very Good / At Least Very Good. Item #4444

From the front flap ''No one has seen Haiti more intimately than Captain Craige of the United States Marine Corps. For a number of years, he was loaned to the Haitian Government and served as a white officer of the black troops of that republic. His first duty was in a wild and mountainous interior district nearly half as large as the state of New Jersey. Here the inhabitants shuffled on the sides of their feet. Some of them had peanut-heads and could not straighten their knee-joints. Captain Craige, learned their language on which he is an authority. He went to their dances, attended their funerals, studied their weird, primitive, religion, – the voodoo. The natives called him Papa Blanc, White Father... Voodoo rites, cannibalism, black magic, wangas were all part of his daily routine."

Price: $250.00 CAD  other currencies