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Sharp, Cecil J.
Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians.
Publisher: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, Oxford;
Date of Publication: 1952
Stock Code: 11240
Second impression. Octavo, 2 vols., pp. xxxvii, [1], 435, [1]; xi, [1], 410, [2]. With musical scores and a folding map showing the counties the songs were collected from to front of vol. 1. Bound in the original navy blue cloth with gilt spine titles. With the original unclipped printed dust-jackets. Foxing to endpapers and text block edges, otherwise clean and free from inscriptions or annotations. Volume I dust-jacket foxed with minor wear, closed tears and chips. Volume II dustjacket foxed, with loss to spine tips and more substantial loss across the top edge of upper panel. A very good set in good dust-jackets. Comprising 274 songs and ballads with 968 tunes collected by Cecil J Sharp. Chosen as representative of the traditional songs taken to America by British immigrants. Heavy two volume set which will require an additional contribution towards postage for overseas delivery. £70.00