SONGS OF THE COWBOY : Variants, Commentary, Notes & Lexicon Vy Austin E, and Alta S. Fife
Language: English
Published by Clarkson N. Potter, New York, NY, 1966
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Text/BRAND NEW w/staining to upper text edge corner. Beige boards/NF w/light scrapes to backstrap. DJ/None. Compilation of 23 cowboy songs collected by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp (1867 - 1940) and first published In 1908 (and a latter expanded 1921 edition), without musical notation, titled Songs of the Cowboys; the book included "Little Joe, the Wrangler," written by Thorp himself. Cattleman Thorp spent some 50 years riding the range; his original publication represents the first systematic effort to track down western cowboy songs and poems.and western songs. With studied efforts, the music notations are drawn from pre-1930 sources.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- SONGS OF THE COWBOY : Variants, Commentary, Notes & Lexicon Vy Austin E, and Alta S. Fife
- Author
- Thorp, N. Howard ("Jack"; (Austin E. & Alta S. Fife, Editors); (Naunie Gardner, Music Editor)
- Publisher
- Clarkson N. Potter, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 1966
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Seller catalogs
- Anthology, Music, Sheet Music, Music Criticism
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