![Item #26448] Beside Myself. Allan BLOCK](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26448.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1461645436)
New York: Flatiron Press, 1962. First Edition. A significant association, joining two of the great figures of the 1960s folk revival. Allan Block (1923-2013) was the long-time proprietor of the Allan Block Sandal Shop, on West 4th Street, which would become one of the twin hubs of the Greenwich Village..... More
![Item #59156] Ain't You Got A Right to the Tree of Life? The People of Johns Island, South...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/59156.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1664154162)
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989. First printing of the Revised and Expanded Edition. Quarto; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Fine copy in a crisp, unworn dustwrapper. A much expanded and updated version of the Carawans' 1966 classic, included many new photographs by Ida Berman, Gary Hamilton, and others..... More
![Item #80555] Twenty-Four Negro Melodies Transcribed for Piano. Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, pref...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/80555.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705358861)
Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, [1905]. First Edition. Landmark collection of African-American spirituals, by the first musician of African descent to gain true eminence as a composer in the European classical style. Folio (31.5cm); publisher's green cloth-backed decorative card wrappers; [2],ix,[5],127pp.; chiefly sheet music. Spine ends, wrapper extremities rubbed and textblock..... More
![Item #90128] Tarantula. Bob DYLAN](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/90128.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786415943)
Hibbing, MN [but really San Francisco]: Wimp Press, [1970]. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets (printed recto and verso), side-stapled, with crudely-illustrated front cover; [ii],54pp. Light wear, dust-soil, and a few faint creases to front wrapper extremities, with lower stapled starting to come loose; contents clean and complete, with the print bold..... More
![Item #16063] Original Silkscreen Poster: Untitled [Portrait of Pete Seeger]. GRAPHICS, ORIGINAL ART](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16063.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1354663379)
N.p. 1965. Striking portrait of a folksinger with a twelve-string guitar. Though untitled, the image bears a strong resemblance to Newman's 2009 poster-portrait of Pete Seeger, who we strongly suspect is the subject of this piece as well. Rare image by the talented West Coast printmaker Earl Newman (b. 1930)..... More
![Item #85097] The People's Song Book. Waldemar HILLE, Alan LOMAX, B. A BOTKIN, Ed., Foreword,...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/85097.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750137053)
New York: People's Artist's, 1956. Second Printing. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps with a red, white and blue design. 128pp. Light wear to extremities of wraps, some minor soiling to the paler portions of the covers, old ink price to top left of front wrap; internally clean, a little..... More
![Item #82970] Mining Camp Melodies. Walt "Rags" HOLLIDAY](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/82970.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733187534)
Butte, Montana: Oates and Roberts Press, n.d. [1924]. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's original burgundy cloth titled in gilt to front board. 120pp. Lacking front blank. Rubbing and scuffing to extremities, minor bumping to spine ends, a little shaken in its binding with a couple of secure but slightly loose..... More
![Item #57044] Phonophotography in Folk Music: American Negro Songs in New Notation. With an...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57044.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647471406)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Recently rebound in quarter linen over paper-covered boards; x,[1]-181pp; text diagrams; 17 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) not reckoned in pagination. Closed marginal tear to second flyleaf (blank); minimal aging to text; Near Fine, albeit..... More
![Item #34023] North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy as Sung in the Backwoods Settlements, Hunting Cabins...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/34023.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1494453312)
Altoona: Altoona Tribune Company, 1919. First Edition. Collection of ballads and work songs from Pennsylvania's north woods, collected by Shoemaker with the assistance of native ballad singers John French and John Chatham (whose portraits appear as frontispieces). Reissued in 1923; the first printing is notably uncommon in commerce. COHEN ("Work..... More
![Item #20005] Le Point - Revue Artistique et Litteraire, XL (Janvier 1952). Le Jazz. Hugues...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/20005_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1404078804)
Paris: Le Point, 1952. First Edition. Entire issue devoted to (mostly American) jazz, with articles by Hugues Panassie ("Le Jazz, musique vivant"), Madeleine Gautier ("Le Blues"); Big Bill Broonzy ("Lowland Blues"), others. Many full-page photographs featuring portraits of Don Byas, Zutty Singleton, Mezz Mezzrow, Louis Armstrong, and others; 10 photos..... More
![Item #63910] Three Pieces of Souvenir Ephemera for Ray R. Myers " The Armless...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/63910.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718150829)
No Imprint: For The Author, n.d. [1935 -1948]. Three pieces of promotional ephemera, produced for Ray Myers during the 1940's and later. Comprising: Pamphlet, 23cm x 15cm. Original grey card wraps, titled in black to front wrap. Clean and sharp with a small closed tear to the upper of the..... More
![Item #80739] Howdy Judge [Inscribed]. RACIST LITERATURE, George D. HAY, The Solemn Old Judge,...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/80739.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708561752)
Nashville: The McQuiddy Press, (1926). First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Nettie Spielman / with best wishes from / Geo. D. Hay, "Solemn Old Judge," dated 1933. Tight, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Hay (1895-1968) started his career in print journalism but made his name as..... More
