Hamilton, ONT: Duncan Lith. Co., N.d. [ca 1900]. One of many editions of this souvenir songbook. Modeled after their predecessors The Fisk Jubilee Singers, this troupe, organized by William and Sadie Carter and consisting primarily of Canadian nationals, debuted in 1879 and appears to have toured the U.S. and Canada... More about Songs Sung by the Famous Canadian Jubilee Singers the Royal Paragon Male Quartette and Imperial...

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 about Ghana Sings

[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 about From cover: Boutelle Bugle. Song Book Edition July 4th 1951]. The Three Hats. Being a private...

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 about Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States

New York: Workers Music League, 1934. First Edition. The first of two collections of original radical vocal compositions produced by the Workers Music League, the music-propaganda front of the New York Communist Party. As noted by historian Ron Cohen, the WML marked a clear evolution within the Communist Party towards... More about Workers Song Book [No 1 - 1934

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 about American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century

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 about American Folk Songs of Protest

Chicago: International Song Publishers, [ca 1920]. First Edition. Scarce labor song-sheet issued by this short-lived Chicago Socialist music publishing cooperative, co-founded by Douglas Robson (who contributed at least two compositions to the IWW Songbook); and Rudolf Liebich, who according to Archie Green in his Big Red Songbook was the pianist... More about The Advancing Proletaire

Montevideo, Uruguay: Editorial el Siglo Ilustrado, 1963. First Thus. First Spanish-language edition. 12mo; pictorial thick paper wrappers; xli, [80pp]. Mild bumps to corners; text paper very mildly tanned at margins; Very Good. Originally published in Italian as Canti della nuova Resistenza spagnola (Torino: 1962). Political and protest songs of the... More about Cantos de la Nueva Resistencia Española 1939-1961. Con la colaboración de Margot Galante Garrone

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 about Rocky Mountain Collection

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 about North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy as Sung in the Backwoods Settlements, Hunting Cabins and Lumber...

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 about Woke Up This Mornin': Poetry of the Blues

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 about The American Songbag