American Ballads and Folk Songs (The Signed/Limited Edition) by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax - 1934

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. Cloth. Very Good +. A tight, very solid copy of the 1934 signed/limited. #124 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE FATHER-SON MUSICOLOGISTS AND FOLKLORISTS JOHN AND ALAN LOMAX at the limitation. Crisp and VG+ to Near Fine in its duotone cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. A touch of light soiling at the spine. otherwise very sharp and, internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. Thick quarto, bright red staining (as called for) to the top-edge, deckled fore and bottom-edges. A seminal text in American folklore and in the painstaking collecting of American ballads and folk songs.