AMERICAN BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS

Published by The Macmillan Company, 1934., New York, 1934

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Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA

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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.

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Title
AMERICAN BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS
Author
LOMAX, JOHN A. [COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY] AND ALAN LOMAX
Publisher
The Macmillan Company, 1934., New York
Publication year
1934
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and Rare Books dealing with Western Americana, Ephemera and Mystery. Western Americana includes Maps, Photographs, Letters, Documents, Art, and Ephemeral Material related to the History of the American West, Canada and Northern Mexico. Our Specialties include Cowboys, Cattle and Development of the Range, Mountain Men and the Fur Trade, Frontier Military and Indian Wars, Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West, Native American History and Ethnology, Exploration, Gold Rush, Railroad, Overland, Natural History and Travel. Books in Mystery include Detective Fiction, Golden Age, Espionage, Queen's Quorum, Sherlockiana, Artwork, Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, References and PBO. All of the books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise. …

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WESTERN AMERICANA, COWBOYS, OUTLAWS, INDIANS, MILITARY, HISTORY, CATTLE, MOUNTAIN MEN, FUR TRADE, FRONTIER MILITARY, INDIAN WARS, NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY, EXPLORATION, GOLD RUSH, RAILROAD, MYSTERY, DETECTIVE FICTION, ESPIONAGE, GOLDEN AGE, SHERLOCK HOLMES, PBO

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