MY PIOUS FRIENDS AND DRUNKEN COMPANIONS, AND, MORE PIOUS FRIENDS AND DRUNKEN COMPANIONS: Songs and Ballads of Conviviality : 1961
by Frank Shay (Compiler)
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New York, NY: Dover, 1961. Dover Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. John Held, Jr. (Illustrator). Text/Clean & Near New. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge & surface rubs & humidity stains to upper back top edge & discoloration. Collection of drinking songs sung by professional drinkers assembled by Greenwich Villager Frank Shay (1988 - 1954). Enduring songs of the Naughty Nineties & early 20th century, separately first published in 1927 & 1928 respectively; this is the Dover combined reprint of 1961. Not songs that glorify drinking of spirits & drunkards, but those that were sung & enjoyed by "professional drinkers" when in a mellow & convivial mood of comradeship to the pleasure of all. Some were first heard on a Standard Oil tankship, others from sea-coast gin-mills sailors visited, and army camps of America and France ... 235 pgs, some with music, w/ John Held's illustrations. Find full refrains of Clementine (as sung by Ralph Geddes), and Frankie and Johnnie; and old-time ditties such as Forty-nine Bottles, and I've Been Workin' on the Railroad. Rich collection. Strong copy despite flaws.
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- Title
- MY PIOUS FRIENDS AND DRUNKEN COMPANIONS, AND, MORE PIOUS FRIENDS AND DRUNKEN COMPANIONS: Songs and Ballads of Conviviality : 1961
- Author
- Frank Shay (Compiler)
- Illustrator
- John Held, Jr. (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Dover Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dover
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 235
- Keywords
- Anthology, Drinking Songs, Humour, Booze, Bars, Pubs, Ballads
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- Social Sciences;
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- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.