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

New-York: Leavitt & Alden, 1844. First Edition. Collection of abolitionist songs, hymns, and poems, including "Slave Girl Mourning Her Father" and "The Slave and Her Babe"; "The Negro's Appeal"; "Negro Boy Sold for a Watch"; and "The Quadroon Maiden," with words by Longfellow. DUMOND, p. 39, giving publisher name "Benedict";..... 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

[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

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

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

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

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