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First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author on the colophon, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23cm); decorative paper-covered boards and dark brown machine-embroidered cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket and brown paper-covered slipcase; xii,201,[3], with [12]pp of black & white plates. Hint of foxing to two sides of the textblock and upper board edges, with a faint musty odor from long storage; Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. The slipcase shows some gentle sunning around the opening, a few small scuffs, else Near Fine.Authoritative work by the pioneering African-American composer, containing a substantial collection of his work, along with a detailed discography and bibliography. With introductions by Howard Hanson and Frederick Hall, and contributions by Paul Harold Slattery, Verna Arvey, and Louis and Annette Kaufman. "Still writes in every medium of musical expression with a power that is undergirded by a spirit of great humility and honest dedication. It is such a spirit that causes him to rise above the technical and creative skills of musical composition, over which he has complete mastery, and give forth utterances that "lift a race from wood and stone to Christ." What he has done and is doing for American Negro Music is inestimable" (p.xi). Morrow & Cooney 123b.…