Memphis Gospel Quartet Music 1961., 1961. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 11.75" x 8.75" 32pp Contains lyrics, melody lines, piano accompaniment and guitar chords for 17 gospel songs and spirituals. Titles include: Behind Your Tears; Guide My Feet; Happy People; Pablo; What A Morning; and 12 more. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1952. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Illus by the author. pp: xviii, 233, index. Contains words and music to 363 songs, arranged by topic. Sections include: "Songs which Reveal the Folk Singing Manner"; "Camp Meeting Spiritual Songs"; "Songs with Tunes Robbed from Fiddlers, Fifers, Harpers, and Frolickers"; "Folksongs of Praise"; etc. 10" x 6.75". (more information)

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Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin, 1939. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 296pp, bibliography, indices of song titles and first lines; 3pp illus from photographs. Contains lyrics and melody lines to 300 spirituals representing the song traditions of eastern New York and New England, gleaned from "old song books and rural group singings." The songs are grouped as: Religious Ballads (Bible-story songs, carols, etc., chiefly intended for individual singing); Folk Hymns (group-singing); and Revival Spirituals ("sung-to-pieces hymns" with repetitions and refrains). 9.25" x 6.5". (more information)

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NY: Viking Press, 1928. 5th printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 187pp. Contains a 40-page introduction by James Weldon Johnson along with words and music to 61 spirituals. Laid into this book is an old off-print of a three-page review by Edward Sapir, University of Chicago, published in the "Journal of American Folklore" in the late 1920s. An old inscription on the endpaper states, in part: "Thanks for Jesus and the American Negro." 10" x 7.25". (more information)

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Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1880. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gilt-pictorial binding rubbed at edges. pp: viii, 265; two portraits. Describes the history and musical tour of these Fisk University singers, and gives words & music to 128 spirituals sung by them. Contains a fine heliotype group-portrait of the Jubilee Singers and a toned lithographed portrait of George L. White, who found a way to fund the group. 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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Philadelphia: Morris Music, 1934. First Thus. Pictorial wraps. Very Good. Negro Spiritual: Modernized Version by Harold Potter. 4pp, in part: "Swing low, sweet chariot, Comin' for to carry me home .." Inset on the cover is a stereotypical cartoon. Also on the cover are a file number and the stamp of a music store in Dallas, Texas. 12.25" x 9.25". (more information)

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NY Bonanza Books (1940)., 1940. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. 10.25" x 6.5" pictorial dj pp: vii, 259 Index. Contains words and music to 230 African-American spirituals, blues, work songs, social songs, &c. Reprint Edn. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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