1885 CREOLE Proverbs Gombo Zheebes New Orleans Louisiana Haiti Guyana Trinidad

1885 CREOLE Proverbs Gombo Zheebes New Orleans Louisiana Haiti Guyana Trinidad

“Gombo Zheebes” is a collection of Creole proverbs from six different dialects, including those of French Guyana, Haiti, Martinique, Mauritius, New Orleans, and Trinidad translated into French and English by Lafcadio Hearn.

This 1885 1^st edition is bound in brown cloth with a gilt-stamped title and design on the front-cover.

Item number: #13753

Price: $499

HEARN, Lafcadio

“Gombo zheebes.” Little Dictionary of Creole proverbs, selected from six Creole dialects. Tr. into French and into English, with notes, complete index to subjects and some brief remarks upon the Creole idioms of Louisiana.

New York, W.H. Coleman, 1885. 1^st edition

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 42, [4]
• References: BAL 7914;
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
  • Decorative cloth
• Size: ~8.5in X 6.75in (22cm x 17cm)

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