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

London: The West London Ethical Society, 1913. First Edition. The first volume consists of meditations and homilies chosen from both clerical and secular sources, intended to illustrate the non-religious principles of Ethical Culture. The second volume, edited by Charles Kennedy Scott, is a compilation of secular hymns for use in..... More

Boston: A.N. Johnson and J. Johnson, Jr., 1846-1847. First Edition. Twenty-six volumes bound in one; large quarto (29.5cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards; iv,208pp.; sheet music throughout. Leather significantly dried and rubbed with shallow loss mid-spine, lacking front free endpaper, some foxing to textblock, contemporary pencil notes to endpapers, else Good..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Follow-up volume to the author's highly-regarded Cowboy Songs (1910), collecting 74 cowboy songs and ballads broken up into three sections: "Cowboy Yarns," "The Cowboy Off Guard," and "Cowboy Types." With a foreword by William Lyon Phelps. Scarce in dustjacket. Second Printing. Octavo (19.5cm): rust-colored..... More

New York: 1949. First Edition. Poem dated July 12, 1949, and "Dedicated to the memory of Benjamin H. Fletcher, veteran Negro revolutionary Industrialist Unionist who died July 10, 1949, and to all other valiant ones who died in the fight for Freedom." Fletcher was one of the most prominent leaders..... More

Washington DC: Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities, 1919. First Edition. Collection of patriotic songs with illustrations by a young John Held, signed in image either "JH" or "J. Held," but otherwise unattributed to him. The noted Jazz Age cartoonist had already had work published in Vanity Fair, though..... More

New York: People's Songs, 1947. The Christmas, 1947 issue of this long-running American folk music periodical, with content dedicated primarily to holiday music. "Christmas is a time for singing, and it is also a time when millions remember the words of one who preached the brotherhood of man. What better..... More

V.p. 1946-1947. 18 volumes, all large quartos. Very Good to Fine. Includes titles from the songbook series "Partizanske Pjesme: (nos. 1-8, all located in the British Library only in OCLC) and "Nova Pjesma" (see nos. 10-16, uniformly bound in red pictorial wrappers; none located in OCLC). 1. Hercigonja, Nikola. Partizanska..... More

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); red publisher's cloth with black lettering, in white pictorial dustwrapper; viii,165pp. Boards slightly warped; top edge of block and boards soiled. Wrappers worn with some soiling and edge rolling; sticker residue and rubbing on rear; tear at heel..... More

New York: Willis Woodward & Co., 1896. Sheet music. 4to; pictorial coated thick-paper wrappers; 6pp (including covers). Mild creasing and external soil; partial split at folded margin; Very Good. Owner's name in ink at upper front cover ("Lora Mae Powell"). Racist dialect song, and an early hit for the French-born..... More