San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1940. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Cloth-backed pictorial boards; dustjacket; 36pp; illus. Tight, straight and fine in the original printed dustwrapper, a little darkened on spine with a few minor spots of wear at extremities, Near Fine. The woodcut decorations are by Mallette Dean. 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

Katonah, NY: Brookwood Labor Publications, n.d., ca. 1935. First Edition. 16mo (15cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp. Some minor wear from handling, else Near Very Good and sound. Songbook issues by the Brookwood Labor College, established as the first residential labor college in 1921, though it would close its doors by 1937. COHEN 15. 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

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

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

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

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

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1927]. Quarto (26.5cm.); original cloth in red pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xxiii,[1],495pp; lyrics and notation throughout. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with minor shallow chipping, spine a hint sunned, dampstain at bottom fore-ege corner of textblock not bleeding into text, ownership gift inscription to... More