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Lot 132
Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
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Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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HURSTON, Zora Neale (1891-1960). Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. 1938.
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. Philadelphia, New York, London, Toronto: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1938]. 8vo, 301pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs plus pictorial endpapers. Red and blue horizontal striped cloth, pictorial jacket. First edition. Owner's inscription "Rachel H. Fulton / Summer 1941 / Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica."
This copy of Hurston's personal account of voodoo and superstition in Haiti and Jamaica was owned by Rachel Hanna Fulton (1895-1984), of Columbus, Ohio. Rachel was the wife of William Duane Fulton, Jr. (1889-1958). Passenger lists for departures from New York, Hawaii, New Orleans, and California, indicate that after their 1917 marriage the couple traveled widely to destinations throughout Europe and elsewhere, including, as evidenced by Fulton's inscription, to Haiti and Jamaica.


