Boston: by the Author, 1844. First Edition. Small folio; 6pp. Lithograph on cover by Thayer. Neat hand-threading to bound edge. Light foxing & browning. Very good. Dichter & Shapiro, p. 67, with very full description of the wonderful illustration. D & S note plate mark 388, which is present here..... More
Paris: Soulié, n.d., ca. 1925. 1. Grandada [pseud.] "Sacco et Vanzetti" [Drop title: "Le Martyr de Sacco [et] Vanzetti"]. Bifolium (26.5cm.); outer panels printed in red, interior printed in black. Near Fine. Internal panels provide the lyrics only to the song "Le Martyr de Sacco Vanzetti," to be sung to..... More
Milwaukee: H.N. Hempsted, 1865. First Edition. Quarto (35cm). Lithographed wrappers; [4pp]. Faint soil; slight creasing at lower right corner; still Near Fine. Engraver's mark at end of notation ("Eng'd at Clayton's). Scored for piano, without lyrics. Very handsome tinted lithographic cover by L. Kurz, Chicago, featuring a bust portrait of..... More
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
![Šamac-Sarajevo (Šime Vu eti ) [with] Omladinsko Kolo (Ive a e) [cover title]. Silvije BOMBARDELLI](/pictures/medium/21966.jpg?v=1529353329)
Split: Izdanje K. U. D. "Ivan Lozica" [1947]. Large quarto (35.25cm.); bifolium, printed on newsprint; exterior leaves printed in red; sheet music. Edges a touch toned and lightly worn from handling, else Fine. Music and lyrics for two Hungarian nationalist songs, published in the Dalmatian city of Split. Not in..... More
![From cover: Boutelle Bugle. Song Book Edition July 4th 1951]. The Three Hats. Being a private...](/pictures/medium/37839.jpg?v=1529353897)
[N.p.: Drunken Press, 1951]. A quirky and charming collection of bawdy and topical songs as sung by members of the U.S. Pacific Command in WW2 and the Korean War. Divided into sections titled "Bawdy or Thereabouts;" "Drunk or Drinking;" "Military Jibe;" and "Old Favorites." Printed throughout in multiple colors. Illustrated..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920. First American Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial boards in unadorned glassine dust jacket; 67pp. Glassine jacket quite fragile with chips and tears to extremities, three smallish losses to spine, the largest approx. 1/5 inches; Near Fine in a Good or better copy..... 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
Crockett, CA: Carquinez Press, 2010. First Edition. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; 190pp. New, unread copy. Only authoritative scholarly history of labor songs in America; includes a substantial (250 item) bibliography of primary materials, mostly from the author's own collection. More
London: The Communist Party of Great Britain, N.d. [ca 1926]. Second Edition. Octavo (20cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; [7]pp. Creased, with horizontal tears into both margins; still complete and Good. Includes "The Internationale," "The Red Army March," "A Rebel Song" by James Connolly, others. More
[Westfield, NJ]: by the Author, 1924. Rare self-published songster promoting the Coolidge–Dawes presidential campaign of 1924. Prints lyrics to six songs, "set to good old tunes we can all sing" -- "Send Back Cal Coolidge to Washington;" "Where the White House Gleams;" "Girls-Go Get 'Em;" "Everybody's Voting Coolidge;" "Sixteen to..... More
![Cover title] L.R.Y. Sing. COUNTERCULTURE, GREATER WASHINGTON AREA FEDERATION OF LIBERAL RELIGIOUS...](/pictures/medium/43148.jpg?v=1551737210)
Washington, DC? Greater Washington Area Federation of Liberal Religious Youth, 1962. First Thus. Collection of lyrics of religious, labor, and popular songs, issued by the LRY, the youth branch of the Unitarian Universalist Association, formed in 1953 by combining the American Unitarian Youth and the Universalist Youth Fellowship. The LRY's..... More
[Wisconsin]: Cymanfa Ganu Wisconsin, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth-backed printed card wrappers; [2],222pp.; chiefly sheet music. Wrappers a bit rubbed and toned along extremities, some surface scratches, contemporary ownership rubberstamp of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Racine, Wisconsin, to upper cover, else Very Good, internally fine. 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
![Social Worship for Use In Families Schools & Churches [...] Issued on Behalf of the West London...](/pictures/medium/15746.jpg?v=1529353170)
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
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket'; x, 348pp. A few random pencil marginalia, else tight and Near Fine in bright jacket with front flap separated at fold. Greenway's first book, an expansion of his doctoral dissertation at Penn, and for many years the standard..... 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Edition. Quarto. Tan cloth boards; dustjacket; xviii, 196pp; illus. Boards a little soiled, especially at edges, else a tight, Very Good or better copy in the scarce dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and soiled overall; Very Good. An early collection of western frontier ballads and..... More
Baltimore: George Willig, 1853 [but later]. The cover illustration is of the 13-star Confederate flag, not designed and adopted until 1861. A contemporary hand has added the following sentiment in pencil below cover title: "The grandest & most glorious flag that ever waved, that is so." According to the family's..... 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
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
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
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
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: Bantam Books, [1973]. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original black pictorial card wrappers; [16].122pp. Textblock uniformly toned, else Fine. Collection of lyrics by the major blues singers, including Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Bukka White, and Howlin' Wolf. With an introduction by Nicholas. More
