Fife Alta Editors (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ in Fair dust jacket. First Edition. A comprehensive anthology, 200 songs with music lines and guitar chords, commentary, notes, a lexicon, and variants of words and melodies. 372 pages. Interior text in Near Fine condition. Ex library with the usual stamps, pocket, blindstamp, tape marks. DJ spine foot has 1 1/4 x 1 1/4" cut away, library label on front coverr (now in mylar sleeve). Shipping may be extra; please inquire.; Ex Library; 8 3/4 x 11 ". Illustrated by Ralston, J. K. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW w/staining to upper text edge corner. Beige boards/NF w/light scrapes to backstrap. DJ/None. Compilation of 23 cowboy songs collected by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp (1867 - 1940) and first published In 1908 (and a latter expanded 1921 edition), without musical notation, titled Songs of the Cowboys; the book included "Little Joe, the Wrangler," written by Thorp himself. Cattleman Thorp spent some 50 years riding the range; his original publication represents the first systematic effort to track down western cowboy songs and poems.and western songs. With studied efforts, the music notations are drawn from pre-1930 sources.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. SUBTITLED : ` A Comprehensive Anthology '.The introducytion to this 372 page volume notes that cowboy songs likely originated as ` self-inflicted exercises to ward off loneliness'. That was before radio got wind of the genre. READ more about : mesquite, refrain, Doc Few-Clothes, Blue Mountain, horse head, gunman, prairie, mouldering bones, Little Mohea, hanky-panky, lavender cowboy, and Railroad Corral. Text accompanied by musical notation. Interest added by b/w (light-hearted) drawings by J.K. Ralston. Mary Jo Schweab is listed as music editor. INDEX at back. Cond : Paper wrapper is buckskin in colour with brown titling. Cover art shows six or seven cowboys gathered around a campfire. Volume in ALL respects is clean and bright and square. No wear. No names nor marks. Giftable !! QUote (p. 03 of the introduction) : " The best of the cowboy songs came into being after 1870 and before 1930. Their real substance consists of the candid and dramatic way in which they reveal the human condition in those decades of ._._._. . ". B/W Drawings (illustrator).…