Very good. Collection of 63 concert programs from performances at two Eastman School of Music venues in 1926 and 1927. About half are from the Eastman Theatre, where the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and touring professional musicians performed, and half from Kilbourn Hall, a venue used primarily for student recitals. Condition..... (Item #24357)

Milwaukee: Geo. Brunder, [1883]. Softcover. Good. 13 cm (ca. 5"),  pp 110 , [2] (index); original sewn wrappers, with decorative initials and wood-engraved illustrations in the text.  Final leaf (index of songs) and back cover are damaged, with some loss, chipping to corners of front cover; otherwise very good. An uncommon..... (Item #21644)

London: Faber and Faber, 2017. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Later printing. Fine copy in fine jacket, signed by Bragg on the title page. The first book to provide an in-depth examination of the history and evolution of skiffle, "a uniquely British take on American folk and blues."..... (Item #20574)

Philadelphia, PA: American Folklore Society, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 188 pp, with bibliography, index. Light shelf wear, spots of nibbling to boards; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Bibliographical Series Volume II. This volume is meant "to offer the ballad scholar, and particularly the student of ballad variation..... (Item #1905)

London: Daniel O'Connor, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a fair dust jacket. 9.75" x 7.5", 114, (1) pp, with illustrated endpapers, 6 color plates (including frontispiece) and addition b/w illustrations in the text. Original illustrated paper-covered boards slightly toned at edges, very lightly bumped at corners and spine..... (Item #23909)

Softcover. Very Good. 100 pp + song index, with song lyrics (not sheet music), b/w illustrations from photographs, in original illustrated wrappers. Light handling wear to wrappers, sticker on rear cover; else clean and sound. No publication information. "This book is not meant in any way to flaunt me or..... (Item #2333)

Los Angeles: [1934]. Softcover. Fine. 12" x 9", pp. 3-10, in color lithographed cardstock wrappers. Fine condition.  Sheet music, with lyrics in English and Spanish, for this song in praise of the harbor and bay at Avalon, Catalina Island, California. A Los Angeles Times obituary for Tessier, who composed the..... (Item #23767)

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8.75" x 12", 51 pp, in original cloth-backed illustrated boards, with decorative endpapers. Moderate wear to edges of boards, evidence of erasure to front free endpaper, small stain at bottom margin of pages, two pages with ink spots; otherwise clean..... (Item #23916)

Boston: Henry Prentiss, 1836. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Sheet music, 3 pp, disbound from a larger volume, with a very nice cover lithograph illustration of a military exercise and encampment on Boston Common, with the Old Elm at left. Corners chipped, but still an attractive example. Schmidt composed several..... (Item #22046)