Chicago: Root & Cady, c. 1869. Sheet Music. 5p. 36 x 27 cm. Some waterstaining. Dedicated to Theodore Tilton and Frederick Douglass. Douglass remains a giant. Tilton, a talented newspaperman and a committed abolitionist, is mostly remembered as the husband who sued Henry Ward Beecher in 1874, seeking $100,00 in..... More
New York, London, Boston: G. Schirmer, c. 1915. Apparent 1st ed. with Johnson translation [no later printing information]. Paperback. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. Illustration mounted on front. 31 cm. Ends of backstrip chipped as are lower corners of front cover. Minor creasing and corner wear. Hard to decipher circular..... More
New York, London, Boston: G. Schirmer, c. 1915. Apparent 1st ed. with Johnson translation [no later printing information]. Paperback. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. Illustration mounted on front. 31cm. Vover illustration scuffed with some crease marks. Backstrip chipped at bottom and appears to have been reglued for four or five..... More
Boston: White, Smith & Company, 1875. Sheet_music. Sheet Music. 6-pages. Pictorial front cover. 2nd page blank. Song on pages 3-5. Advertisements for other sheet music on back cover. 36cm. A couple of modest brown spots on front cover. Minor browning along edge of interior leaf. Cover illustration of a ramshackle..... More
Chicago: Root & Cady; NY: Wm. Hall & Son, Firth & Pond; Bocton: Russell & Tolman; Milwaukee: H. N. Hempsted, c. 1862. Not a 1st. Sheet music. (5)p. plus (1)p. publisher's adverts. Disbound. 35cm. Spotting and offsetting. A few edge-tears, 2 repaired with small glued paper squares. No cover illustration..... More
Boston: Geo. P. Reed, 1847. Sheet music. Six pages ([2], 3, [1]p.). Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 33 cm. Modest foxing, wear and some staining; tear at the bottom of last leaf. The second and sixth pages are blank, presumably as published. Illustrated front page is titled "Plantation Melodies"..... More
