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

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

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

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

[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

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

Hamburg: Quer-Verlag, [1969]. Second, Expanded edition. Collection of rhymed chants first issued by the author's publishing house Quer-Verlag in 1968 for members of the German Student Movement and the protests staged that year. The author, the son of a dock worker, was himself a member of the leftist literary group..... 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 [with]..... More