Search Results: Anthology - Hardcover from HLP Songs & Ballads

495 pages. "...a ragbag of strips, stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth."Black covers with bold orange lettering and blind stamp of Sandburg bust. Covers are clean with tight spine and light bumping on the corners.Pages are very clean with red edges on three sides and no markings noted, except for penciled price erasures on the FFEP.

407 pages. Cover is shows some bumps/rubs on edges and spine ends, and a pale "drip" mark down the front cover. Pages are clean but top and bottom edges are soiled. No markings noted except a very small book-shop sticker on the FFEP.

105 pages. 30 songs with melody and piano accompaniment. All text is in English and French.No dust jacket. Ex library - Whitman College Library bookplate - though minimally marked with "138289" stamp dedication page and end paper. Includes small note of Erratum pasted in opposite copyright page and a gift note "Tom from Helen" on the FFEP. See photos. Covers are sturdy and clean of marking, but lightly soiled. Mild bumping on corners.Pages are clean with no markings noted other than those noted above.

623 pages.Dust jacket is clipped and in a protective cover. Edges are chipped with some rubbing on the back. Cover is black with gold lettering and a silver embossed design on front. Cover is very clean with tight spine, and light bumping on the corners. Pages are clean and bright with no marking noted. There is a small stain on the top edge which doesn't affect the pages.

First Edition as the date - 1939 - is on both the Title page and the Copyright page. Includes inscription and signature by the author - "Remember that a walk with you is better than a ride with many others" - signed October 19, 1940 Irene Therese Whitfield Holmes. 159 pages and 65 songs with a delightful introduction by the author, about field work collecting songs with Alan Lomax. Includes Louisiana-French Folk Songs, Cajun Folk Songs, and Creole Folk Songs. Commentaries are provided for each song, and melodies are noted. Songs lyrics are French, however, no translations are given. Front cover and spine are clean and intact. The rear cover is intact but is stained and slightly warped. Corners and spine ends are in very good shape. Pages are aged, but clean with no markings noted.

416 pages.Covers show light rubbing, and bumping on the corners. Pages with red top edge are very clean with no markings noted.

247 pages with a few full page b/w photos. A ballad hunter in Nova Scotia near the turn of the century. The book is about the singers and efforts to collect the ballads, as much as the ballads themselves. Would have been interesting to listen to Mackenzie and Lomax swap tales about ballad collecting and the characters who sang them. Ex-Library with minimal marking including an Iowa State Library bookplate and a barely noticeable raised stamp of the same on the Title Page. The covers and spine are intact but worn with bumping, fraying and staining. Pages are clean and unmarked, but there is staining on the fore edge (see photos) which crept into some of the pages as much as 1/8".This may not be a collector's dream, but would be a treasure to many.

First Edition as no subsequent printings noted. Signed by B.A Botkin on the Front Free End Paper. 620 pages. A compilation of 500 Stories, Ballads, Traditions and Folkways of the Mid-American River Country. Ends with Where the Blues Begin; 30 songs with melodies in music notation. No Dust Jacket. Cover is clean with some slight bruising of the corners and very mild checking of the spine ends. Pages are clean with no markings noted.