Very good. Single sheet folded to 4 pages, 9.5" x 6.25", with half-tone photographic illustration on cover. Undated, but 1930s. Old folding creases, minor dust soiling; very good. A scarce promotional circular providing a biography and testimonials for "Chief Ho-To-Pi, our own Indian Caruso, Northern Cheyenne Indian tenor." The text..... Item #22590
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
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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
New York: The Academy of Music, Wynkoop & Hellenbeck, Printers. Softcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1850s. 6.5 x 10 in., pp. 18 (libretto), [4] (selections from the musical score), in original illustrated wrappers. Ads for Weber pianos on inner wrappers and back cover. Moderate soiling and general handling wear to wrappers;..... Item #21779
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Good+ dust jacket. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 18 pp, indexed, with pictorial endpapers, 3 color plates, and several smaller illustrations in the text. Black cloth binding with illustration of a man playing the accordion..... Item #12279
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
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 424 pp, in blue pebbled cloth with paper spine label. Corners lightly bumped, light soiling to boards; contents clean, partially unopened. From the Introduction: "These songs are a species of composition entirely by themselves. They have no affinity with our..... Item #2929
Softcover. Near fine. No publication information given. [38] pp, 8.5 x 11 inches, comb binding. Clean, with minimal handling wear. Reproduces sheet music for twelve (presumably out-of-copyright) pieces with themes relating to Santa Cruz County, California. See accompanying images for a list of titles. Item #21773
New York: Dover, 1975. Softcover. Very good. Two-volume set. Oversized paperbacks. Both volumes clean and tight, with no internal markings. Volume I has moderate handling wear; Volume II has a crease in the front cover near the spine, but is otherwise as-new. Due to size, shipping cost will be more..... Item #14174
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
