Negro Folk Songs as Sung

by Lead Belly by John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax

$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing. xiv, 242 pp. Bound in publisher's coarse ochre cloth stamped in red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with a little soiling to cloth and textblock. Features annotated songs and an oral biography of the iconic blues legend Lead Belly, transcribed by the folklorist father-and-son duo John and Alan Lomax. Item #140942087

• Printing: first

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