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(FIFTH PRINTING) Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. Pages have a few markings, underlinings here and there. Cover heavily shelfworn. Edges rubbed raw and tattered, with worn corners.Spine repaired with blue tape. No DJ. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Very Good: clean, straight, apparently unread. Paperback, 512 pp. 111 songs with music, many verses, essays and commentary. . .

One lightly bumped corner.; 4to 11"-13" tall; 407 pages.

This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is an oversized hardcover book with 407 pages. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. There is a bookplate on the first end paper. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page states 1947 Second Edition. This is definitely Not a former library book. The dust jacket is blue with white and black lettering. The dust jacket is about 99% intact with light chipping on the edges and corners and light edgewear. This old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

(FIFTH PRINTING) Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. Pages have a few markings, underlinings here and there. Cover heavily shelfworn. Edges rubbed raw and tattered, with worn corners. Spine repaired with blue tape. No DJ. Your purchase benefits world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

One lightly bumped corner.; 4to 11"-13" tall; 407 pages.

This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is an oversized hardcover book with 407 pages. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. There is a bookplate on the first end paper. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page states 1947 Second Edition. This is definitely Not a former library book. The dust jacket is blue with white and black lettering. The dust jacket is about 99% intact with light chipping on the edges and corners and light edgewear. This old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Good condition with light wear to binding.

Gray cloth, lettered in burgundy. 15th ptg. : 1958. Notably well-preserved copy with slightly tanned text block edges, otherwise essentially as issued. Scarce goldenrod dust jacket (lettered in black, accented in burgundy) is slightly chipped at extremities with shallow (1/4") loss at head of spine panel and 1/2" deep chip along bottom rear edge, lightly soiled, a bit rubbed along joints, now in mylar. Identical contents but slightly reduced in size from early printings issued in the 1930s and '40s (first issued 1934). xxxix, 625 pp.

Quarto. Grey boards with red lettering. Red topstain. [xxxiv] pp. 416. Includes index and bibliography. Second collection of folk songs and ballads gathered by the Lomaxes and scored by Ruth Crawford Seeger. Very light rubbing to extremities, and some browning to pastedowns. Dustjacket fair only, wikth brown tidelines to spine, edgewear and smudging. Very clean and very tight copy, whose dustjacket has done a creditable job protecting the book itself from the vicissitudes of the 80+ years of the ensuing ages. Dustjacket, smudged, edgeworn and war-weary, now protected from further chronologically-induced insults, by sheathing it in mylar. Major Sections (with many subsections) include: I: Religious Songs; II: Social Songs; III: Men at Work; IV: Outlaws; V: Hollers and Blues; VI: Negro Gang Songs. Subsections divided into I: Negro Spirituals, White Religious Songs; The Holiness People; II; White Dance Tunes; Negro Game Songs; Bahaman Negro Songs; Lullabies; Whoppers; Courting Songs; Old-Time Love Songs; French Songs and Ballads from Southwestern Louisiana; III: Soldiers and Sailors; Lumberjacks and Teamsters; Cowboy Songs; Railroaders and Hobos; Miners' Songs; Farmers of the South.