American Murder Ballads: and their Stories
by Olive Wooley Burt
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
-
Poulsbo, Washington, United States
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About This Item
272 Pages. Maybe the first book of its kind, with some ballads the first time in print. Over 100 ballads including commentary on the events, and some with melodies. Ballads are broken into eight categories - "Friends and Relations", "Jealousy, Unrequited Love and Madness", "The Profit Motive", "For the Love of God", "A Matter of Pigment", "Law at any Price", "A Way of Life", and "Any Excuse will Serve".
Dust jacket is unmarked but clipped, rubbed and chipped on the top & bottom edges.
Covers are very clean with no edge wear, but slight bumping on the bottom corners.
Pages are clean and no markings were noted except some pencil erasures on the FFEP.
Dust jacket is unmarked but clipped, rubbed and chipped on the top & bottom edges.
Covers are very clean with no edge wear, but slight bumping on the bottom corners.
Pages are clean and no markings were noted except some pencil erasures on the FFEP.
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Details
- Bookseller
- HLP Songs & Ballads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ANH0011
- Title
- American Murder Ballads
- Author
- Olive Wooley Burt
- Format/Binding
- Binding is original and intact
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ballad & Folk Song;
- Size
- 6 x 8 1/2
Terms of Sale
HLP Songs & Ballads
- 30 day return guarantee, with full refund excluding original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
HLP Songs & Ballads
Biblio member since 2020
Poulsbo, Washington
About HLP Songs & Ballads
Specializing in Song Books and Ballads
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