Sharp Cecil Edited Maud Karpeles (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. ## AS PICTURED ## FIRST EDITION, First Printing Thus (i.e. first OUP p/b edition), 1987. Tight, bright and clean, with no markings, inscriptions or signs of use. A very nice copy. FREE POSTAGE WITHIN THE U.K. Buyers from outside the U.K. quoted Shipping cost before purchase. (proceeds donated to the Motor Neurone Disease Association).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1975. PP [xii], 75, 79. (Two volumes in one.) "The songs in these volumes have been selected from 'Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs' [Oxford University Press, 1974] which comprises 413 separate songs (1165 tune-variants). In this collection all tunes and texts have been transcribed without alteration from Cecil Sharp's notebooks in the way that he noted them from the traditional singers." Some light-induced colour fade to the spine of the unclipped dust jacket. Both book and jacket are otherwise in excellent condition. The dust jacket is enclosed within an easily removable clear plastic protective cover. All contents are tight and clean. There are no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First of this edition. First of this second enlarged edition with introduction to 1917 edition. 2 volumes, blue cloth, a very good set with only very light rubbing to edges. No dust jackets. This edition had 122 songs, 323 variants and included the material collected by Cecil Sharp in his first visit to the mountains, a 9 week sojourn, in 1916; and 32 songs from Dame Campbell, collected from 1907-1910 mainly in Kentucky and Georgia. The expanded edition includes material gathered in an addition 19 weeks in 1917 and 18 weeks in 1918, where Sharp was accompanied by Maud Karpeles. No expedited shipping. International may require additional postal charges.