Folk Music
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American Song Bag
by Carl Sandburg
Famous poet Carl Sandburg was also a collector of American folk music. He compiled around 290 songs in this anthology, which contains singable words and music, including harmonies or accompaniment.
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
How Can I Keep From Singing
by David King Dunaway
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-476), discography (p. [477]-491), and index.
Folk Music Books & Ephemera
And a Voice to Sing With (Signed 1st Ed)
by Baez, Joan
SIGNED IN PERSON BY JOAN BAEZ directly to the front endpaper. NOT inscribed to anyone. A lovely true 1st printing in unread condition with just some light bumping at the upper corners. Looks terrific with new mylar for your dust jacket. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.
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£105.68
The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
by Niles, John Jacob
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Niles began collecting the folk music of his native Kentucky before World War One, and later recorded and published many of the songs he collected, becoming an important source of the 'folk music revival'. This book collects ballads from the hills of Kentucky, Tennessee, & Virginia, many little changed from their English country origins. Stated first printing (first edition) with date on the title page. Hardcover, full green cloth with white & light...
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£36.58
White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands: The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singing and Buckwheat Notes
by George Pullen Jackson
Hardback. New.
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£65.90
Bob Dylan
by Dylan, Bob (Creator)
Music Sales Amer, 2011. Paperback. New. paperback/cd edition. 48 pages. 11.75x9.00x0.25 inches.
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£14.50
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC.
by CROSS, MILTON and David Ewen
Dust jackets have faded spines; closed chips at heads and tail - largest 43x17mm; closed chips on 6 coners - largest 14x4mm; 4 closed tears - longest 6mm. Both volumes have coloured, somewhat faded top edges; fore-edges rough cut at binders; pages very slightly yellowed.78 composers. Covered in plastic. Please expect extra postage.
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£18.94
Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy
by Bradley, S.A.J. [Selected, Edited, with Introduction, Notesand Glossary by]
London: Andre Deutsch. 1968. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. A couple of very small "stains" to top of leading edge - a couple of spots really. 219 pages. Arranged with guitar accompaniment by John W. Duarte. Bawdy songs from the 16th and 17th centuries . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£16.71
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads - Revised and Enlarged
by John A. Lomax, and Alan Lomax
1938 "Revised and Enlarged" printing. 431 pages. One of Lomax's definitive anthologies. Over 200 ballads and songs (with melody) including notes on the origins. Covers are unmarked, but spotted and faded on the rear board and spine, with bruising of corners and spine ends. Pages are very clean with no marks noted except a user name on the FFEP
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£52.84
How can I keep from singing: Pete Seeger
by Dunaway, David King [Seeger, Pete]
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 386p., photo-illustrated in inserted coated stock, hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch red boards with dark blue cloth backstrip, in dust jacket. Heel of casing has suffered damp damage and blue cloth has stained lower endsheets of both gutters and the inside of the dj. Otherwise a pretty good reading copy, no markings, no ownerships, no further damage.
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£8.13
Take this Waltz: A Celebration of Leonard Cohen
by Fournier, Michael and Ken Norris, editors
Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec: The Muses' Company / La Compagnie des Muses, 1994. Paperback. 189p., wraps, 6x9 inches, very good condition. Contributors include Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Allen Ginsberg, Kris Kristofferson, Phil Spector, and Andrei Codrescu.
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£9.75
Trois Chanson Russes // Three Russian Folk Songs, Op. 41 for chorus of altos and basses with the composer's piano reduction of the orchestra score. Centennial Edition
by Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Melville, NY: Belwin Mills, Publishing Corp, n.d.. Pamphlet. iv, 28p., staplebound, 7x10.5 inches; one front wrapper corner slightly creased, else in very good condition.
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£13.82
Folk technicians and inventors (Technicy i wynalazcy ludowi). Translated from Polish
by Seweryn, Tadeusz
Warsaw, Poland: Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Publications Department of the National Center for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, 1978. Paperback. 103p., wraps a bit faded else very good condition.
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£12.19
Ozark Folklore
by Vance Randolph
University of Missouri Press, 1987. Cloth. fine/fine.
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£87.79
Great day coming; folk music and the American left
by Denisoff, R. Serge
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971. Hardcover. 219p., illus., first edition, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, else very good condition in an unclipped, edgeworn, and sunned dust jacket. Music in American life.
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£12.19
How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Biography of Pete Seeger
by Dunaway, David King
Villard Books, 2008. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 560 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches.
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£19.78
Composer and Nation: The Folk Heritage in Music
by Finkelstein, Sidney
New York: International Publishers, 1960. Hardcover. 333p., very good condition in a price-clipped dj. Dj subtitle: "A study of national expression in music and the use of folk and popular music by the great composers from the 17th century to the present day." Includes chapters on jazz, music in the Soviet Union, and more.
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£9.75
Original Russian Cossack Music from the Urals
by [Russian Folk Music]
Laserlight, 1991. CD Music. Fine copy. Music CD. Laserlight/Delta Music. 1991. 15 tracks. 54 minutes. Fine copy but lacking liner notes.
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£4.06
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Ozark Folksongs [Music in American Life]
by Randolph, Vance; Edited and Abridged by Norn Cohen
Urgana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982. A Very Good Soft cover. Very Good. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 590 pages with index.. 250 selections including centuries-old British ballads; songs of the Civil War, slavery, cowboys, outlaws, and murderers; temperance pieces and revival meeting hymns; and a rollicking assortment of dance and play-party songs.
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£20.28
Bob Dylan: Chronicles Volume One.
by Dylan, Bob
London.: Simon & Schuster., 2004. 293pp. . Reprint.. Hardcover. Near Fine./Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£5.00
Ozark Folksongs: Volume IV, Religious Songs and Other Items
by Randolph, Vance ; Introduction by W. K. McNeil
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. Originally published in 1949, this comprehensive gathering of folksongs s an assortment of religious songs, hymns, and revival tunes along with sentimental ballads and journalistic pieces. Carefully handled, Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 9.375 inches tall; 355 pages with index.. Characteristic of the compiler's careful work is the painstaking accuracy with which...
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£19.51
The American Songbag (First Edition Signed by Carl Sandburg)
by Carl Sandburg
Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Collectible first edition, first printing of Carl Sandburg's groundbreaking compilation of 280 "songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America," approximately 100 of which were published for the first time. Signed in black ink on half title page by three-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and poet Carl Sandburg. Signature unconditionally guaranteed to pass any COA examination. "Copyright 1927"...
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£162.57
Read 'Em and Weep: The Songs You Forgot to Remember.
by Sigmund Spaeth
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Large format hardcover, orange cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. 19th century American folk & popular songs, music and discussion, illustrations. Stated First Edition. 267 pages, title index. Old newsclipping tucked in, discoloring the page. Worn and bumped, cracking at pp16-17.
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£12.19
The Ballad Book
by MacEdward Leach
Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, and is in a protective cover. Dust jacket is free of marking, but has some chipping and a closed tear or two on the edges. Covers are clean but bumped on the top edge and corners. Pages are clean, but there may yet be found some very light pencil notations. FIRST EDITION D-E
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£28.45
