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

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

[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

[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

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

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

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1987]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 81pp.; color illus. and music throughout. Light wear to extremities including a few small closed tears, corners gently bumped, 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

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