OLIVER, Paul. Blues Fell This Morning.

(London): Cassell and Company, 1960.  First edition.  Hardcover.  22cm by 14.75cm.  355 pages. Foreword by Richard Wright. The book examines the functions of the blues as black American folk music recorded during the 78 rpm era, from the 1920s to the 1950s. The lyrics are quoted extensively throughout the book, revealing their significance as a means of communication within black society. The author shows how the themes of labour and unemployment, migration and the Depression years, love, sex, and marriage, crime, violence and imprisonment, disasters, sickness, war and death are expressed in black idioms and he discusses their meaning on many levels.  A very good copy, ownership name of of Belgian poet and anarchist, Freddy de Vree, on front endpaper and his bookplate to the half-title.  Dust jacket a little worn with tears.