Alan Lomax Preface (4 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Large paperback, first paperback printing as stated on copyright page, 191 pages, music and photos complement the text, the cover shows mild overall tanning and a few short scuff-marks on the rear cover, the binding is clean and tight, the contents are fine, and there are no other remarkable flaws, "Johns Island - is a low-lying swamp-covered sea island - On it live the descendants of plantation slaves who, in their isolation from the mainland, have preserved the richness of their Afro-American folk traditions and who still endure the hardships of Negro rural life as they have endured them for centuries".…

Couverture souple. Condition: Satisfaisant. Flammarion, 1964 / année de la première édition française. Broché, in-8 (210x150), 355 pages, en annexe les compositions (13 partitions) et les enregistrements. Etat couverture : défraîchie et jaunie, marques de pliure en coins, plis de lecture au dos. Intérieur : papier jauni sinon TBE. [7060.1]. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NF/VG/2nd prntng 1966. Some minor wear to jacket, but otherwise, quite a solid copy. The jacket has a nick at the heel of the spine, a small tear at the top of the spine, and a little wear to both top corners--splits. Minor soiling to jacket- some light foxing to a preliminary page--now sportin' a nice new mylar sleeve. Book's cloth covered panels are clean, binding is tight, no writing or marking inside or out. 256pp., many full page photos. words and scores of many songs, along with information about the daily life on Johns Island in the 1960s. Guy Carawan is best known as the folk singer that brought the song, "We Shall Overcome" to the Civil Rights Movement. The photographer was Robert Yellin, a member of the Greenbriar Boys, a well known folk group. Alan Lomax is a distinguished collector of folk music, and is responsible for the revival of many African American Spiritual and Gospel(and work)songs sung for forever in the South. Book comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage, book mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC. Photography by Robert Yellin (illustrator).…

Second Printing. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps with a red, white and blue design. 128pp. Light wear to extremities of wraps, some minor soiling to the paler portions of the covers, old ink price to top left of front wrap; internally clean, a little wear around the staples. A very good, clean, copy. Songs of freedom, resistence, labor, and a section entitled "Songs that helped build America." Contributors included Woody Guthrie, Big Bill Broonzy, Aunt Molly Jackson, Tom Glazer and others, whilst Pete Seeger is listed as one of the Associate Editors of the work. "Here is a big, clean wind of a book that will blow the mists of doubt and discouragement right out of your heart." [Lomax, Alan. Foreword] Scarce in early printings.…