Anthology - Hardcover from HLP Songs & Ballads

247 pages with a few full page b/w photos. A ballad hunter in Nova Scotia near the turn of the century. The book is about the singers and efforts to collect the ballads, as much as the ballads themselves. Would have been interesting to listen to Mackenzie and Lomax swap tales about ballad collecting and the characters who sang… Read more about this item

105 pages. 30 songs with melody and piano accompaniment. All text is in English and French. No dust jacket. Ex library - Whitman College Library bookplate - though minimally marked with "138289" stamp dedication page and end paper. Includes small note of Erratum pasted in opposite copyright page and a gift note "Tom from Helen" on the FFEP. See photos.… Read more about this item

First Edition as the date - 1939 - is on both the Title page and the Copyright page. Includes inscription and signature by the author - "Remember that a walk with you is better than a ride with many others" - signed October 19, 1940 Irene Therese Whitfield Holmes. 159 pages and 65… Read more about this item

First Edition as no subsequent printings noted. Signed by B.A Botkin on the Front Free End Paper. 620 pages. A compilation of 500 Stories, Ballads, Traditions and Folkways of the Mid-American River Country. Ends with Where the Blues Begin; 30 songs with melodies in music notation. No Dust Jacket. Cover is clean with some slight bruising of… Read more about this item

623 pages. Dust jacket is clipped and in a protective cover. Edges are chipped with some rubbing on the back. Cover is black with gold lettering and a silver embossed design on front. Cover is very clean with tight spine, and light bumping on the corners. Pages are clean and bright with no marking noted. There is a… Read more about this item

407 pages. Cover is shows some bumps/rubs on edges and spine ends, and a pale "drip" mark down the front cover. Pages are clean but top and bottom edges are soiled. No markings noted except a very small book-shop sticker on the FFEP.

416 pages. Covers show light rubbing, and bumping on the corners. Pages with red top edge are very clean with no markings noted.

495 pages. "...a ragbag of strips, stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth." Black covers with bold orange lettering and blind stamp of Sandburg bust. Covers are clean with tight spine and light bumping on the corners. Pages are very clean with red edges on three sides and no markings noted, except for penciled price erasures on… Read more about this item