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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Moser, Barry (illustrator). First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Barry Moser on title page. A near fine copy of the first edition (with complete numberline in jacket (jacket price-clipped). [48] pages (unpaginated). Illustrated version of the libretto of the well-known choral work, intended for juvenile readers, with 'words selected from the Holy Scripture by Charles Jennens' (title page; with marginal references in red). Introduction by Christopher Hogwood; afterword by Moser.Moser, Barry (illustrator); 16 Color illustrations; 1 Decoration (red/white).

Black Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Moser, Barry (illustrator). First Edition. Unpaginated. First Printing. Interior As New. Inscribed By Barry Moser On Title Page. Dj Lightly Scuffed. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

430 pages. With a lot of illustrations. Illustrated original softcover binding. (Partially a little used). 28x22 cm * Irwin Silber (October 17, 1925 September 8, 2010) was an American Communist, editor, publisher, and political activist. Irwin Silber was born in New York City, to Jewish parents. As a young man, Silber joined the Young Communist League, the youth section of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), moving later to membership in the adult party] Silber ultimately severed his ties with the CPUSA in 1955. Silber attended Brooklyn College, where he was instrumental in establishing the American Folksay Group. Through his involvement with folk music, Silber made the acquaintance of Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, and others influential in that music scene. Activist and author: The co-founder, and former long-time editor of Sing Out! magazine from 1951 to 1967, Silber was perhaps best known for his writing on American folk music and musicians until he left Sing Out! and began writing for the radical left wing newspaper The Guardian. His creation of Oak Publications was responsible for a large portion of the folk music material available in print during the growth of the revival. On the occasion of his 80th birthday an interview with Mr. Silber was published giving details on his role in the progressive folk music circles of the 40s, 50s and 60s as well as his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. After leaving Sing Out! in 1968, Silber became cultural editor of the independent radical newsweekly, The Guardian and also its film critic. He began to write on more directly political subjects, specializing in analysis of both national and international developments and developing a broad and appreciative readership. He became the Guardian's executive editor in 1972 and led it into the milieu of the New Communist Movement. Factional disagreements led to a split within the Guardian staff, and Silber left the newspaper in 1979, moving to California to join the leadership of a current within US Marxism known as the "rectification movement" and he affiliated with the Line of March. Silber and blues/folk singer/fellow activist Barbara Dane became a couple in 1964. Among other collaborations, they established the independent recording company Paredon Records to distribute and document the music being created by the liberation movements of the 1970s. Dane produced nearly 50 LPs, and Silber handled the promotion and distribution. To insure availability of the material, in the mid-1980s they donated the label to Smithsonian Folkways, which distributes the collection on CD and digitally. Among Silber's most important political writing is Socialism; What Went Wrong, an examination of the theoretical and practical events in the USSR leading up to its collapse. His only non-political book in the last 20 years is A Patient's Guide to Hip and Knee Replacement based on his own experience with these operations. Silber's most recent book, Press Box Red, tells the story of sports editor Lester Rodney, whose decade-long campaign in the pages of the Daily Worker helped pave the way for the racial integration of major league baseball. In the December 24, 2007 issue of Newsweek magazine Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion fame was asked to name his five most important books. His #2 choice (after the Acts of the Apostles) is The Folksinger's Wordbook by Irwin Silber, a huge collection of "hymns, blues, murder ballads, miner's laments-the whole culture." Open letter to Dylan: In the November 1964 edition of Sing Out!, Silber wrote an article called "Open Letter to Bob Dylan." I saw at Newport how you had somehow lost contact with people . some of the paraphernalia of fame were getting in your way. Dylan did not like being told how to perform or how to write, and he did not really like any.

Hardcover. Moser, Barry (illustrator). 1st. 1st ptg., 4to picture book, cloth blacked boards, illustrated in watercolor by Barry Moser, introduction by Christopher Hogwood. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, signed by Moser on the front free endpaper. Signed by the artist.

Hardcover in dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. This book is hard-bound in black paper covered boards, with gilt and blind-stamping, with a gilt stamped black cloth spine, in a very nice dust jacket. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean, with color illustrations. This book is signed/inscribed by the illustrator Barry Moser on the title-page. - From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. ; Signed by Illustrator.