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DUELL, SLOAN & PEARCE, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

DUELL, SLOAN & PEARCE, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

DUELL, SLOAN & PEARCE, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Third Edition. Hardcover. One lightly bumped corner. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 407 pages .

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover.

Signet Book. Paperback. Good. Good condition with light wear to binding.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce [1947], 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. 4to. [6], vii-xvi, [2], 3-407, [1] pp. Blue cloth with the front board lettered in blind and with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Collected, adapted, and arranged by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax. Alan Lomax, editor. Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger, music editors. ANB, J. Marshall Bevil, "Lomax, John Avery". Wilgus 220. Wilgus praises the presentation of the melodies in this book. John Lomax began lecturing on American folk songs in 1910. He grew up recording cowboy ballads that he learned from his friends and neighbors. Nat Blythe, a Black man with whom Lomax was friends, taught Lomax traditional spiritual songs from the African-American community. In the early 1930's, John Lomax took to traveling the country full-time, recording folk songs everywhere he went. His son Alan Lomax would often accompany him, especially at this point in his career. Lomax… Read More