Compiled by Alan Lomax (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Later Paperback Printing. Oversized trade paperback with illust.covers; Book is sound no loose pages but discoloured covers with faint foxing on page edges, minimal corner creasing but free of any biro or pencil markings; 111 songs with piano arrangements by Elizabeth Poston, guitar chords and ilustrated learning methods; 159 pges with index of first lines, first pub. in 1964.…

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Loose sheets held in place by a cotter pin in upper left corner, 3 mimeographed radio scripts, printed on rectos only, from the estate of Douglas Cleverdon. From Lomax's LP series Southern Folk Heritage for Atlantic. For owners of the original recordings, this material is not taken from the liner notes or insert booklets. Extra postage will be required for International shipping of this oversize item.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 7,9,8 pp. …

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. NOTES ON THE SONGS BY WOODY GUTHRIE, MUSIC TRANSCRIBED & EDITED BY PETE SEEGER. FOREWORD BY JOHN STEINBECK.368 PAGES.

First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth, titles stamped in red on front cover and spine, xxxix [blank], 625 pp., foreword, acknowledgment, introduction, bibliography, index. With an excellent foreword by George Lyman Kittredge. A splendid book of songs that illustrates many phases of our strangely multifarious life and manners. Chapters of songs of working on the railroad, the levee camp, Southern chain gangs, Negro bad men, white desperadoes, songs from the mountains, the blues, cowboy songs, the vaquero, the Erie Canal, the miner, and much more. Former owner's neat bookplate on the front pastedown sheet, contents clean and bright, in a price-clipped dust jacket lightly darkened on the spine, light wear to the spine ends, with two small closed tears to the top edge of the front cover. Scarce in such nice condition.…