The Hobo's Hornbook: A Repertory for the Gutter Jongleur

by George Milburn, William Siegel, Compiler

$250 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. First edition, first printing. 295 pp. Bound in publisher's tan buckram with crimson lettering, gray patterned endpapers, red topstain. Near Fine with a hint of foxing in a Very Good+ dust jacket, price-clipped with a little wear and soiling. An attractive copy. An illustrated guide to American hobo ballads and folk poems, compiled at the start of the Great Depression, the best-known example

• Printing: first

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