Shoemaker Henry W Compiler (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Altoona, PA: Times-Tribune Co., "Mountain City Press". G/No Dustjacket. 1930. . Paperback. 8vo., 103 pp., rubbed, bumped, toning cover and pages . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cream pictorial card cover stock, titled in black; 12mo; 60pp; illustrated with b/w photo frontispiece plus 7 others, title page vignettes and 13 text drawings. "Being the Results of an Investigation Into the Causes and Period of the Destruction of These Noble Beasts in the Keystone State Obtained From Descendants of the Original Hunters; Including a Sketch of Daniel Ott, a Pennsylvanian who has Killed Many Buffaloes in the West." This copy in G to VG condition with light cover soiling, upper front cover corner crease, ink stamp from the American Museum of Natural History to front panel, internally clean. Reprinted many times but most difficult to find in the 1st edition.…

First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial buff card wrappers; 176pp; portrait frontispieces (2). Slight toning and wear to wrappers; bold ink ownership signature at upper margin of front wrapper ("R.E. Goettman"); still a solid, VG copy of the rather less common first edition (the collection was revised and re-issued in 1923). Collection of ballads and work songs from Pennsylvania's north woods, collected by Shoemaker with the assistance of native ballad singers John French and John Chatham (whose portraits appear as frontispieces). Reissued in 1923; the first printing is notably uncommon in commerce. COHEN ("Work & Sing") 149.…