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Stated 7th printing of the first edition (which was printed in1934), very good in a very good dust jacket. Gray cloth with red lettering on the spine and front board. Light soiling to page edges; small spot on front board; endpapers are a bit toned. The price clipped jacket has chips at spine ends, and short tears at the spine folds. The yellow spine is darkened. Includes a Bibliography and an Index; 625 pages. A tight, square copy with no names or other marking in or on the book. Because of its size, additional shipping will be required for anything other than media mail.

Words and music. 407 pages in very good, clean condition. Top edge and fore-edge yellowed. Bottom edge stained. Blue cloth with silver titles on the spine. Embosed titles on the upper cover. All edges faded. Corners bumped and frayed. Blue DJ with white/black titles. Corners and edges chipped and torn. One inch chip at the head of the spine. Light soiling on the jacket. Not price clipped. Binding secure. GOOD+/FAIR Size: 8 x 11

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. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

4to. [6], vii-xvi, [2], 3-407, [1] pp. Blue cloth with the front board lettered in blind and with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Collected, adapted, and arranged by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax. Alan Lomax, editor. Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger, music editors. ANB, J. Marshall Bevil, "Lomax, John Avery". Wilgus 220. Wilgus praises the presentation of the melodies in this book. John Lomax began lecturing on American folk songs in 1910. He grew up recording cowboy ballads that he learned from his friends and neighbors. Nat Blythe, a Black man with whom Lomax was friends, taught Lomax traditional spiritual songs from the African-American community. In the early 1930's, John Lomax took to traveling the country full-time, recording folk songs everywhere he went. His son Alan Lomax would often accompany him, especially at this point in his career. Lomax was a key player at the Archive of American Folksong at the Library of Congress, compiling a huge range of folk music for their records. Lomax's work continues to be important to modern ethnomusicologists. His primary objective was to popularize folk music, and the public image of American folk music's heritage. The final publication in which the father and son team worked together to produce a history of American folk music. Wilgus praises the presentation of the melodies in this book. A bit of fading to the edges of the boards and a slight lean; jacket shows notable chipping and a chip to each fold.

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.

gross oktav hardcover. fine - sehr gut. ungelesen, tadellos; gebundene ausgabe, blaues blind- und silbergeprägtes originalleinen, 407 seiten mit noten und texten, auf vorsatz von norman frank gewidmet und signiert sowie datiert; kapitale minimal berieben / unread, perfect condition; hardcover edition, original blue blind- and silver-stamped cloth, 407 pages with notes and text, dedicated and signed and dated by norman frank on the flyleaf; minimal rubbing to capitals 1800 Gramm.

First edition. 8vo. Gray cloth, titles stamped in red on front cover and spine, xxxiv, 416 pp., red top stain, introduction, preface, music preface, illustrated with music, bibliography, index of songs, index of first lines. Music edited by Ruth Crawford Seeger. A sequel to the earlier publication American Folk Songs and Ballads the Lomaxes collected these songs primarily from the American South. Ruth Seeger's transcription and arrangement of the tunes is highly praised. Almost all of these songs can be found in the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Songs. Their goal was to collect traditional folk music from working class and poverty-stricken Americans. They interviewed both white and black musicians for their project, and even traveled to the Caribbean for their second volume. The songs contained within this volume are divided into subject areas to include religious songs, social songs, men at work songs, outlaw songs, hollers and blues, and Negro gang songs. A near fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with two small holes in the spine panel. light wear to the spine ends and corners, and a few small chips and nicks to the extremities.

First edition. Signed by Alan and John A. Lomax on the rear colophon, copy #110 of 500 thus. xxxix, [i], 625, [3] pp. Bound in maroon and oatmeal cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge stained red. Near Fine with a few light scuffs and stains to spine; contents very bright and clean. In the uncommon original slipcase with a matching number, some chipping and wear. Father and son musicologists John and Alan Lomax's cultural contributions are remarkable, as they traveled America chronicling its rich folk music, which paved the way for the folk and blues sounds of the post-WWII era. With chapter headings ranging from "Railroad Songs" to "Southern Chain Gangs, " "Negro Bad Men, " "White Desparados, " "Creole Negros, " "Cocaine and Whiskey, " "Minstrel Types, " "Songs from the Mountains, " and "Cowboy Songs."

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. Lightly mottled along lower front cover and a small portion of the lower rear cover else a near fine bright and tight copy in a bright dust jacket with light wear to the head of spine. An exceptional copy.