Accra: Waterville Publishing House, [1965]. First Edition. 12mo (18.25cm.); original green staplebound pictorial wrappers; 78pp. Spine foot bumped, else Near Fine. Folk poetry and songs, described as "Victorian pieties" (Albert S. Gérard, ed. European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, p. 112). More

[Lausanne: Bibliothèque CIRA, 1996]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's yellow decorative staplebound card wrappers; 48pp. Fine condition. Published as CIRA's Bulletin 52, Mars, 1996. Includes songs in French, English, Italian, Spanish, and German, though introductory matter in French, English, and Italian only. More

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975. First Edition. Standard and definitive collection of labor songs from the late Colonial period through the Progressive Era. A great copy. Quarto. Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; xvii, 356pp; illus. Fine, tight, unmarked copy in a crisp and unworn jacket, Near Fine. More

Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World Educational Bureau, 1918. First Edition. An iconic IWW song-sheet. According to Archie Green in his Big Red Songbook (p.191), the poem first appeared in a 1908 IWW publication under the title "The Cry Of Toil." It was set to music by Rudolph von Liebich..... More

New York: Carl Van Roy Co., 1955. First Edition. Oblong quarto (22cm x 26cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 24pp; illus. Small faint stain in gutter of first three leaves, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Stamped ownership signature ("Sarah Lou Hammond") inside front cover and at head of title page. An..... More

Salt Lake City: Intermountain Folkmusic Council, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's tan photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; 38pp.; illus. & music throughout. Minor toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Collection of local and indigenous folksongs. More

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

New York: Max N. Maisel, 1911. A compilation of Russian "songs of freedom" and revolutionary poems by various authors. Some of the works included here are early printings of Ruzrushennyi Mol' ("The Ruined Pier"), by Grigorii Gershuni, a Russian revolutionary and a founder of the Socialist Revolutionary Party; and Maxim..... More

Chicago: Brotherhood Publishing, Inc., 1907. Third Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); printed brown card wrappers; 128pp. Light wear else Very Good to Near Fine. Early edition of this popular Socialist song-book, which went into at least seven editions between 1905 and 1913. COHEN 120; EGBERT II, p. 494. More

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1960]. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],177pp.; sheet music. Jacket extremities rather worn with one-inch loss at spine foot, some minor soil, corners bumped, else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Songbook of the Greenwich Village-based folk band. More

New York: Hebrew Publishing Co, 1911. First Edition. Uncommon sheet memorializing the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Lyrics are printed in Hebrew and transliterated Yiddish; only the title is supplied in English (and the title is spelled differently on cover and first page). The cover illustration is a full-length..... More

Los Angeles: Welsh Presbyterian Church, No date. No edition stated. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 32pp. Very Good; erratum pasted in at p.18 (correcting a verse in Welsh). Welsh song-book, with lyrics in both Welsh and English. Undated, appears ca. 1950s-60s; the church was dissolved in 2012. More