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Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Printing & Publishing Co., 1892. New Edition . Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo. 311 pages. Cloth covers are worn at spine ends and corners. Volume shows a little lean. Top hinge (internal) is cracked, though volume remains fairly tight and text block is solid. Inked name on fore edge.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1881. Revised Ed. Hard cover. Acceptable/No Jacket. Fair with shelf wear-spine rubbed and faded/No DJ, 1881, Revised Edition

Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. Some light wear around the edges of the boards and at head/tail of spine. Otherwise a very nice clean copy. .

Forgotten Books, 2018. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880. Hardcover. Good. Revised edition. Seventy-Eighth Thousand. 263pp. Photographic frontispiece. Green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Owner's signature, several signatures of pages sprung, some wear on the cloth at the extremities, a good only copy.

Cleveland: Cleveland Printing and Publishing Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very good. 7.5 x 5 inches, publisher's pictorial blue cloth gilt, very good, light restoration to chocolate endpapers' inner hinges. 311 pp, frontispiece.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. Hardcover. Good. Revised edition. Eighty-Fifth Thousand. 265pp. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. Owner's name penned on front pastedown, pages moderately soiled, extremities worn and bumped, good only.

Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Printing & Publishing Co., 1892. New Edition Stated. . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New Edition stated. Hard cover 8vo in illustrated red cloth w/black and gold dec and spine. About Fine. Light edgewear, else Fine and unmarked. 311pp; illustrated in 139 songs w/musical notation, frontis photo of the Singers. Edition. Hard cover small 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall in red cloth w/stamped black, gold dec. and titles. Near Fine/No DJ (as issued?) Light stain top rear corner page edges not intruding into interior, trace edgewear; cloth clean, titles and gilt dec. bright; square w/firm binding, interior clean and unmarked. 311pp, illustrated in musical scores. LAID-IN is what appears to be the original Opening Night (?) Program from 1871 of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The Fisk Jubilee Singers introduced 'slave songs' to the world in 1871 and were instrumental in preserving this unique American musical tradition known today as Negro spirituals. And, indeed,… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1880. Revised edn., 59th thousand. 8vo, pp. 243. Bound in red cloth stamped in black and gilt, cloth faded. A good copy. Includes a frontispiece and the last portion of the book reprints the music and lyrics of the songs. The Jubilee singers were a group of ex-slaves who traveled the world to raise money to maintain Fisk University.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, n.d. (ca 1880). Hardcover -. Good condition in green cloth with black and gilt illustrations and lettering (fraying to the corners and ends of the spine, hinges cracking.). Revised Edition. Seventy-fifth Thousand. Foreword on ' Fisk University's Great Necessity' dated 1880. Author's note stating that this was ".in part an abridgement of the two Jubilee Histories which were written by the Rev. G.D. Pike, one giving an account of the first campaign in America and the other of the first visit to Great Britain. But the interval between the two narratives is here bridged over, and the story is brought down to the return of the Jubilee Singers from Germany. The personal histories have been more fully written out and a large number of new songs have been added." The Jubilee singers were a small group of former slaves who embarked on their tour to raise funds for Fisk University. Illustrated, including an Albertype frontispiece photograph of the… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised edition. Seventy-Fifth Thousand. 264pp. Black and white illustrations. Very good with a slightly darkened spine, faint spotting on the rear panel, and very short chips and tears.

Revised edition (Seventy-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. 8vo, decorated cloth stamped in black and gold.
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Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); 2 tinted lithographic portrait plates; and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University).
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Condition: Fair. Small ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper verso, corners lightly rubbed; spine somewhat darkened with ends moderately rubbed; front hinge lightly cracked but fully intact. Internally clean and tight overall but with a loose signature at p. 199

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Riverside Press), n.d. Illustrated by Photographic albumen print of singers (Gordon, Thomas, Payne, Caldwell, Hinton, Johnson, Benchley, Hall, Wells, Jackson De Hart), 2 ports (Fisk & White), Fisk facsimile letter, Fisk Jubilee Hall TN. 80th thousand edition. c.1883. Original green blind-stamped cloth, spine and topboard decorated and printed gilt & black (Fisk Jubilee Hall) rebacked by KTB retaining all of spine with corner reinforcement in acid free (AF) Hewit cloth, new headbands and Strathmore AF petal infusion endpapers. 12mo. pp. 265. Very Good. Light cover wear and soil, several small internal blemished. Owner stamps of C. S. Wallace dated 1/11/1888. October 1880 Cravath introduction of Fisk Jubilee Hall. Abridgment of two histories written by Rev. G. D. Pike with expanded personal histories, the German tour and additional numbered songs, 128 total. The first group was organized to raise money for Fisk University and the first tour was organized in… Read More

Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Printing & Pub. Co, 1892. Hardcover. Good+. 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. The Cleveland Printing & Pub. Co, Cleveland, OH 1892. 311 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Frontispiece photograph of the Jubilee Singers intact. Front and rear hinges torn. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Music::All Others History::U.S.A.::Civil War to 1900 6166 6166

Green NY Good used condition.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised edition (Seventy-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); 2 tinted lithographic portrait plates; and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University). Bound in publisher's light-russet colored decorative cloth stamped in black and gold. Small ownership signature in ink on the front free endpaper verso, fading to the spine gilt and edges, very good.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised edition. Seventy-Eighth Thousand. 263pp. Photographic frontispiece. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. Owner's signature on first two leaves ("Mrs. J. P. Dunbar"), faint dampstain on the edge of first and last couple of leaves, an attractive very good copy.

New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised edition (Eighty-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University). This edition prints a different frontispiece photograph from the one used in the 1880 edition. Bound in publisher's olive-green decorative cloth stamped in black and gold. Ownership signature on the title page (dated 1884), modest wear to the spine ends and edges, very good.

New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1883. Hardcover. Good. Revised edition (Eighty-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University). This edition prints a different frontispiece photograph from the one used in the 1880 edition. Bound in publisher's blue decorative cloth stamped in black and gold. Hinges restored, well rubbed at the corners and spine ends, a couple of signatures a bit sprung, a good only copy.

Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1880. Revised edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 243p. Contents: American folk songs as sung by the Williams' Jubilee Singers and brief biographical sketchs of each member