Old Ballads, Signed (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback in overall good shape with general wear. Binding firm and square. Name on top of first blank page, otherwise clean throughout. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (1917), 16mo, xxxviii, 329pp, illustrated, glossary. Stiff covers. Light wear and soiling, else G. A scholarly study of English and American ballads, with voluminous notes and comments. Inscribed and signed: "To _ /in loving remembrance of/ ' those brave days when we/ were twenty-one'/The Editor/ Holidays, 1917". Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Stapled, pictorial wraps (image of Robison) with a taped spine edge and much edge, corner and surface wear. Name and number sticker in top right corner. Music store stamp, bottom left. Some songs in the Table of Contents have notations and there are pencilled in chord markings in a few of the songs. This book was obviously used by a player or performer. Overall G-. This is an excellent collection of early country folk ballads, sung by Carson Robison. The songs include: Hallelujah I'm a Bum, Birmingham Jail, Golden Slippers, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, The Hell Bound Train, The Death of John Henry, Barbara Allen and many others. Carson Jay Robison (August 4, 1890 - March 24, 1957) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He originally worked and sang with Vernon Dalhart though the two eventually went their separate ways. Robison is in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Although his impact is generally overlooked today, he played a major role in promoting country music in its early years through numerous recordings and radio appearances. We have other sheet music by Robison and a signed photo. Please inquire. ; Musical Notation; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 67 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition. 301pp. Signed card laid in, "Sincerely yours, / Arthur Guiterman / Dec. 1927." A near fine copy in a VG+ dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 32 pages; two illustrations from photographs. Contains words and music to 29 songs, including: God's Radio; I'll Never Get Drunk Any More; In the Valley of Kentucky; Shake Hands with Mother Again; and 25 more. Laid into this copy is an inscribed glossy photograph of Asher & Jimmie. In the original pictorial covers, 10.25" x 7.25" Asher and his son were natives of the Kentucky mountains when "Mother" encouraged them to start their radio career, offering listeners a "clean, entertaining and uplifting" program. Many of the songs, written by guitarist Asher, are of a regional nature, along with mountain folk songs and hymns.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed and inscribed by author. Text in clean/unmarked condition. DJ is in protective mylar cover. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available. Signed by Author.

E. F. Hudson, Birmingham. 1911. First edition. Paperback. Illustrated. Covers browned and soiled and spine is very worn with sections missing and some tears.Spine is blank. Page edges browned. Contents clean. SIGNED by the author to the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 144 pages; Inscribed by Lucas opposite the title page. Price clipped jacket with soiling and wear. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 97pp, heraldic illustrations throughout, bound in original blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover. SIGNED by AUTHOR on title page ; 182 pages; Author Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed to the title page. Unread new copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition, same date of 1927 on title and copyright pages; SIGNED 'Your first edition' by Vestal on front pastedown. Ex-Library, good (edgeworn; spine ends bumped and worn; residue from removal of library sticker on spine; corners worn to boards; pages toning; previous owner name on ffep and stamp from Nebraska State Historical Society on title page; evidence of bookplate removal on fpastedown; hinge crack at p 21) in good dj (price-clipped; spine ends and corners chipped; tear to front panel; spine sunfaded with residue from sticker removal; two white marks on front panel; edgeworn). 66pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback - in a fine unclipped dustjacket fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED BY AMY JEFFS - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Price inked. Volume 1 has plastic covering beginning to unravel at top of spine. Extra post because of weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author, MaineFolklorist Sandy Ives' Copy.

Condition: Good. 1934. Limited Edition No 128 of 250. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Fully bound in red leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Contains black and white & 16 colour plates (including frontispiece)by H. M. Brook. Number 128 of limited edition of 250 copies. Flat signed in pencil by both author and illustrator to page facing Acknowledgements. Marble paper pattern to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscription to half-title page. Deckled text block edges. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed throughout. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright. Some scratching and peeling of leather to head and tail of spine due to water staining. Book has a very slight backward lean.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48pp inscribed by author. A very tidy copy of the scarce bookletwith characteristic browning to block. Inscribed by Author(s).

Brown Suede Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good (AVERAGE). No Jacket. Illustrated By H.M Brock (illustrator). First Edition. HEAVY BOOK NO EXTRA POSTAGE BEYOND OUR STANDARD RATES! Please email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Signed By a Previous Owner. Hardback Hand Cut Pages.

Gregory & Son. 1931. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED presentation copy from the Author. "R.R. Brook from W.Gregory Harris - Xmas 1931. Dum Vivimus Viramus (While we live, let us live!)". Covers are soiled and spine sunned Contents are clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Gift inscription by Vestal, with his given name of Walter, to his Aunt on the front pastedown. His aunt's signature on the FFEP. The binding is tight, corners rubbed through. Some edegwear to the boards and ends of spine. Text unmarked. Small green dampstain on the bottom edge of the text block. 12mo. 66pp. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. An elegant production, excellent printing and paper. Some of the many songs are accompanied by their music although the majority are not. Publishers blue cloth, gilt lettered. Slight fraying around the head of the spine. End papers slightly browned. Inscription on the half title 'To George Taggart Esq. with kind regards and grateful acknowledgment of his assistance in the musical part of the work. Robert Ford, Dec. 1900'. Mr Taggart is thanked again in the Preface 'for his painstaking and esteemed revision of some of the airs'. xii + 265 pages, frontis. plate, notes, musical scores. Approx. size 9" by 7". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music Sheets & Scores; scotland; Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 29203.

1st edition. SIGNED by Eton associate. Finely bound in the original full aniline calf. Raised bands with spine compartments uniformly tooled gilt. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description: 307p; 24cm. Notes: Includes glossary. Subjects: Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy Duchess ofEnglish poetry. Ballads, English. English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700.Romances, English History and criticism. Ballads, English England; Texts; Early works to 1800. Ballads, English; Early works to 1800. Songs, English; Early works to 1800. Minstrels. English language Early modern, 1500-1700; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. Genre: Poetry. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). A signed edition of poetry by E M Rudland. Signed with E M Rudlands kind regards. The first thus with fifty eight additional poems and an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll. In a cloth binding in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart with some bumping. Spine faded. Author's inscription to front free endpaper. Stamp to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper smart with chipping. Closed tears to spine and tape repair to rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good. signed by author. book.

. (illustrator). Very Good; solid; spine gilt rubbed but legible; scattered light foxing; a bit of old waterstain at front gutter only; generally a very good copy Hardcover in black varnished cloth with gilt titles, 116 mm, 256 pp. Details do not seem to be exactly the same as any of Cohen's types, but closest to Type I. Title page woodcut shows a man in a parlor chair, smoking a long pipe, facing an empty chair. Cruikshank-like illus. for Lord Bakeman, signed Elton woodcut on American Soldier p. 20, etc. . .

Paperback. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). A very scarce, signed copy of Rose E. Sharland's collection of old Bristol ballads. Anthology of ballads by Rose E. Sharland concerned with Old Bristol city. Titles include 'Avon Gorge,' 'The Metal Worker,' and 'The Kingsdown Lovers' among others. A very scarce copy, rarely seen in commerce. Dated via Jisc.With a frontispiece and further vignette illustrations.Inscribed by the author to Evelyn Page 'with love' to half title, dated 1914.Two leaves of advertisements to rear. In the original publisher's wraps. Externally with shelf wear, chipped with minor loss to head and tail of spine and extremities. Binding tender, generally holding firm. Minor closed tear to half title. Light spotting to occasional leaf, particularly first and last few. Good. signed by author. book.

Condition: Good. PRESENTED TO VETERAN LT. RODENBOUGH BY THE AUTHOR, THE SOLDIER POET J. H. WHITNEY - Octavo, 8-3/8 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover with decorations in blind on the front and rear covers. The covers are rubbed and soiled with slight wear to the corners and head & tail of the spine. 89 pages, with pictorial decorations and decorative initials. There is occasional soiling and light stains to the toned pages. There are tears to the front margins of 2 leaves. Good. First edition, with an excellent inscription signed by the author: "Presented to / Jas. W. Rodenbough / Late 1st Lieutenant / Gen. Geo. A. Custer / Camp #6 / Sons of Veterans / Chicago / Ill / By J. H. Whitney / 'The Soldier Poet' / of Joe Hooker Post - G.A.R. / Baraboo / Wisconsin / March 10th '86".

1st edition. SIGNED by Eton associate. Finely bound in the original full aniline calf. Raised bands with spine compartments uniformly tooled gilt. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description: 307p; 24cm. Notes: Includes glossary. Subjects: Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy Duchess ofEnglish poetry. Ballads, English. English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700.Romances, English History and criticism. Ballads, English England; Texts; Early works to 1800. Ballads, English; Early works to 1800. Songs, English; Early works to 1800. Minstrels. English language Early modern, 1500-1700; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. Genre: Poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. New edition. lxxvi, 610 p. 18 cm. Frontispiece portrait of Percy. 7 other engraved plates. Red leather with gold impressing. Signed college binding from J. B. Hawes, Cambridge. All edges gilt. Corners bumped. Some wear to hinges and spine ends. Ink inscriptions on front endpapers, one for "John Bruckmann, O.M.P.S., Sunsher House 1952-53," and one for "Frederick Allison Tukker, 1935." "Percy's Reliques," as it is sometimes called for short, is a collection of ballads and popular songs collected by Bishop Thomas Percy and originally published in 1765. Ballad collections had appeared before but Percy's Reliques seemed to capture the public imagination like no other. Not only would it inspire poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth to compose their own literary ballads in imitation, it also made the collecting and study of oral poetry a popular pastime.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. Pp. 66. Black cloth-backed decorated boards. Very Good+, some damp staining to top edges, gift inscription, light fading to head of spine in Very Good dust jacket, wear and tanning to spine panel, shallow chips to edges and corners. couple of internal tape reinforcements. Author's first book. Inscribed and dated in year of publication. Includes The ballad "Kit Carson's Last Smoke".A handsome copy with dust jacket now housed in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7 x 4", gilt-ruled leather; teg, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, pp toned, but still a good copy of the THIRD EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #91) ON JAPAN VELLUM PAPER. SIGNED BINDING BY HATCHARDS.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bookplate on front endpaper, gift inscription tipped in at half title page. There is minor foxing at endpapers and page edges. The jacket has minor loss at the top of the spine. A nice copy of the author's first book, inscribed by the author in 1934 on the front pastedown to the person whose bookplate is on the front endpaper. Signed by Author.

pp. xxxix, (i), 279, (i). Frontispiece and 15 coloured plates, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and end-papers all by Brock. Publisher's brushed-calf gilt with spine and adjacent strips of the boards faded, uncut and partially unopened, a couple of leaves carelessly opened, author's inscription on front free end-paper - 'Ethel F. from Beverley N. with all affection Christmas 1934', WITH a typed letter signed by Nichols : 'This is a very belated letter of thanks for your charming present, and also a belated present of mine. I do hope that when you feel like a rubber of bridge, you will get hold of me.', this letter at one time was attached by a typically pernicious paperclip to the top edge leaving a rust-mark that touches the front end-paper, succeeding blank, half-title and frontispiece, otherwise a nice copy.