North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy as Sung in the Backwoods Settlements, Hunting Cabins and Lumber Camps in Northern Pennsylvania, 1840-1910
by [MUSIC] SHOEMAKER, Henry W. (compiler)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Altoona: Altoona Tribune Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial buff card wrappers; 176pp; portrait frontispieces (2). Slight toning and wear to wrappers; bold ink ownership signature at upper margin of front wrapper ("R.E. Goettman"); still a solid, VG copy of the rather less common first edition (the collection was revised and re-issued in 1923). Collection of ballads and work songs from Pennsylvania's north woods, collected by Shoemaker with the assistance of native ballad singers John French and John Chatham (whose portraits appear as frontispieces). Reissued in 1923; the first printing is notably uncommon in commerce. COHEN ("Work & Sing") 149.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34023
- Title
- North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy as Sung in the Backwoods Settlements, Hunting Cabins and Lumber Camps in Northern Pennsylvania, 1840-1910
- Author
- [MUSIC] SHOEMAKER, Henry W. (compiler)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Altoona Tribune Company
- Place of Publication
- Altoona
- Date Published
- 1919
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History; American Folk Music; Lumber Industry;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...