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American Song Bag
by Carl Sandburg
Famous poet Carl Sandburg was also a collector of American folk music. He compiled around 290 songs in this anthology, which contains singable words and music, including harmonies or accompaniment.
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
How Can I Keep From Singing
by David King Dunaway
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-476), discography (p. [477]-491), and index.
Songs Of the Serbian People From the Collections Of Vuk Karadzic
by Milne and Vasa D Mihailovich Holton
British Broadside Ballads Of the Sixteenth Century, a Catalogue Of the Extant Sheets and An Essay
by Carole Rose Livingston
Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German-Speaking Lands To North America
by Annette Kunselman Burgert
Folk Music Books & Ephemera
The American Songbag
by Carl Sandburg
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 11.38
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads - Revised and Enlarged
by John A. Lomax, and Alan Lomax
1938 "Revised and Enlarged" printing. 431 pages. One of Lomax's definitive anthologies. Over 200 ballads and songs (with melody) including notes on the origins. Covers are unmarked, but spotted and faded on the rear board and spine, with bruising of corners and spine ends. Pages are very clean with no marks noted except a user name on the FFEP
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SGD 89.08
Calling Me Home The romance of South Australia in story and song
by Jenkin, Graham [written and composed by]
Adelaide: South Australian College of Advanced Education. 1989. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 329 pages. Includes both words and musical scores. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 16.41
The Colonial Minstrel
by Anderson, Hugh
Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire. 1960. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 158 pages. The story of Charles Thatcher, whose theatrical success in Victoria and New Zealand, between 1852-1870, rested on his success as a lively commentator of day-to-day life on the Goldfields. The songs printed in this book not only bring the historical detail to fuller life but form a valuable collection of...
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SGD 16.41
Den Gode Vise Den Sande Vise: 15 Traditionelle Viser Sunget Og Kommenteret Af Sangerne
by Nielsen, Svend
Copenhagen. Copenhagen: Kragen. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. Softcover. Yellow card covers. Front cover has a corner crease and a little rubbing. Pages are clean and crisp, binding is tight; book appears unread. . 15 Danish folk songs, music and lyrics plus commentary. Pages are printed on coated paper. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 53 pages. D3 .
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SGD 30.15
Songs for labor
by American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
Washington, DC: Education Dept., AFL-CIO, 1992. Pamphlet. 56p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches. Lyrics & music.
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SGD 20.56
The Ballad Book
by MacEdward Leach
Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, and is in a protective cover. Dust jacket is free of marking, but has some chipping and a closed tear or two on the edges. Covers are clean but bumped on the top edge and corners. Pages are clean, but there may yet be found some very light pencil notations. FIRST EDITION D-E
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SGD 47.97
Bob Dylan: Chronicles.
by Dylan, Bob
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First edition of Dylan's revealing autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Coco Shinomiya. PSA/DNA LOA and sticker to the title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. "I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about it manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody...
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SGD 17,131.25
Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946
by Leary, James P
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Near Fine. 2015. Softcover. 0299301540 . "...recovers the diverse, multilingual traditons of immigrant, Native American, rural, and working-class performers in America's Upper Midwest during the 1930's and1940's." Contains an index and source notes in the rear. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The covers are in nice condtion with no creases,...
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SGD 30.08
Bob Dylan (The Little Black Songbook)
by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan songbook with vinyl binding. As New condition.
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SGD 16.45
The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs
by Trapp Family Singers. Ed. Franz Wasner
N.p, N.p, 1973. 1st edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Illustrator: Agathe Trapp. The publication date given above is an estimate only, there being no date given in the book. Illustrator: Agathe Trapp. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; Folk Music; ISBN: 0394709888. ISBN/EAN: 9780394709888. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 19110. . 9780394709888
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SGD 27.41
Bob Dylan
by Bob Dylan
24 pages. Inside front cover has price marking blacked out. Cover and pages are clean with no markings or stains noted.
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SGD 20.56
The American Songbag
by Sandburg, Carl
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. Good hardcover with no dust jacket. Some wear to spine and edges.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket.
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SGD 61.67
The American Songbag (First Edition Signed by Carl Sandburg)
by Carl Sandburg
Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Collectible first edition, first printing of Carl Sandburg's groundbreaking compilation of 280 "songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America," approximately 100 of which were published for the first time. Signed in black ink on half title page by three-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and poet Carl Sandburg. Signature unconditionally guaranteed to pass any COA examination. "Copyright 1927"...
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SGD 274.09
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Ozark Folksongs [Music in American Life]
by Randolph, Vance; Edited and Abridged by Norn Cohen
Urgana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982. A Very Good Soft cover. Very Good. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 590 pages with index.. 250 selections including centuries-old British ballads; songs of the Civil War, slavery, cowboys, outlaws, and murderers; temperance pieces and revival meeting hymns; and a rollicking assortment of dance and play-party songs.
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SGD 34.19
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC.
by CROSS, MILTON and David Ewen
Dust jackets have faded spines; closed chips at heads and tail - largest 43x17mm; closed chips on 6 coners - largest 14x4mm; 4 closed tears - longest 6mm. Both volumes have coloured, somewhat faded top edges; fore-edges rough cut at binders; pages very slightly yellowed.78 composers. Covered in plastic. Please expect extra postage.
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SGD 33.57
Bob Dylan: the vey best of
by Dylan, Bob
Madrid.: Prisanoticias colecciones :bSony Music Entertainment., 2017.. Hardcover. Good. 27 cm. 1 CD-Audio (ca. 78 min). Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Dylan, Bob 1941-. El libro incluye las letras de las canciones en inglés y español. Contenido del texto impreso: Bob Dylan : the vey best of / texto, Coque Malla, Quique González y Fernando Navarro ; traducciones, Ignacio Juliá. Contenido del Cubierta deslucida. -Audio: Like a rolling Stone ; Blowin' in the wind ; Subterranean...
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SGD 26.30
Songs of the Cowboys: the First Printed Collection of Cowboy Songs Collected at the Turn of the Century
by N. Howard ("Jack") Thorp, Ed. by Austin E. and Alta S. Fife
346 pages with variants, commentary, notes and lexicon of 23 songs from Thorp's collection. Includes a facsimile copy of the original 50 page booklet "Songs of the Cowboys" by Thorp, and a lexicon of cowboy terms. Dust jacket is unclipped and largely intact, but chipped, rubbed and torn. There is also some coffee (?) staining on the inside flaps. Cover is spot stained and soiled with light bumping on corners. Pages are clean with no markings noted except for a green line on the lower edge.
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SGD 34.26
Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy
by Bradley, S.A.J. [Selected, Edited, with Introduction, Notesand Glossary by]
London: Andre Deutsch. 1968. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. A couple of very small "stains" to top of leading edge - a couple of spots really. 219 pages. Arranged with guitar accompaniment by John W. Duarte. Bawdy songs from the 16th and 17th centuries . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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SGD 29.17
The Ballad Book
by Leach, MacEdward
New York: A.S Barnes and Company, 1955. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition thus, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, 842pp., no illustrations. Book and Jacket are in Very Good condition. Jacket shows some edge wear and a few minor tears at the spine. Book has light corner wear, some sunning to the spine edges, former price written in ink on the endpapers and foxing, toning and some soiling to the text block otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean,...
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SGD 19.19
Stories of new Muslims
Alexandria: Conveying Islamic Message Society. 68 p., wraps in very good condition, 9x6.5 inches. Conversion stories, usually native-born Americans, many from California. Includes a statement by Cat Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, pp.64-68: "I wanted to be a big star
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SGD 20.56
