Music in Primitive Culture.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956. First English language edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, xx + 182pp + xviii music scores. Fine black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, annotated bibliography, end-notes, index. Illustrated title page, eighteen pages of primitive music examples at rear. From the dust jacket: "The first book in English to bring together the widely scattered information on this important branch of Ethnomusicality, or comparative musicology." Very light general shelf wear, a number of tiny - almost invisible - nips or scratches to cloth, pages lightly toned but clean and unmarked text. Overall a tight, clean VG+ copy in Fair dust jacket (Dust jacket a bit worn in general, but with extensive silverfish [?] nubbkes at all edges and extremities as well a lightly on spine and panels, not clipped. Now in mylar cover.). Item #13806
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