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

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

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

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

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

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

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