US$ 39.95
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Brand New. Chamberlain, Ken (illustrator). reprint edition. 292 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1947
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by John A. Lomax on the half-title page and inscribed "For Miss Dora Flock [or Flook?], a very lovely lady who has won my heart," dated March 8, 1947. xi, [3], 302 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in dark blue. Near Fine with slight lean to spine and tiny faint stain to lower edge of textblock. Offsetting to half-title and facing page from slip previously laid in. In a Near Fine dust jacket, front flap clipped but vertical (presumably later) price of $3.75 intact, with light edgewear, two small tape repairs to verso, and soft ripple and printer's crease to rear panel. An attractive signed copy of the pioneering American musicologist and folklorist's memoirs, published a year before his death.