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Recorded labor songs: an overview. A reprint from Western Folklore, volume 27, 1968
by Green, Archie
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- 1968
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- Pamphlet
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Urbana: University of Illinois Bulletin, 1968. Pamphlet. [9p.], wraps, 5.5x8.25 inches, very good condition. (Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations reprint series no. 188). Item Price
$18.00
The workers in the dawn: labor lore
by Green, Archie
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- 1969
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- Pamphlet
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Urbana: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, 1969. Pamphlet. pp. 251-262, wraps, very good condition, 5.5x8.25 inches. Reprinted from Our living traditions edited by Tristram Potter. Reprint series no. 200. University of Illinois bulletin, volume 55, no. 134, July 7, 1969. Item Price
$15.00
The Singing Game
by Opie, Iona & Peter
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- 1985
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- Hardcover
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- 9780192115621
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$22.00
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Hardcover. xxii, 521p., illustrated with numerous lines of music notation and scattered b&w period, museum-exhibit, and contemporary photographs. Hardbound in the classic OUP cloth boards gilt and a colorphoto dust jacket. The dust jacket is slightly loose-fitting, a trivial problem that is the sole deviation from "as-new" condition: item is sound, clean, unmarked. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Folk tales from the Soviet Union; the Caucuses
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- 1987
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- Glossy Pictorial Cover
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$20.00
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Moscow: Raduga publishers, 1987. Glossy Pictorial Cover. 140p., 8x8.5 inch illustrated boards; profusely illustrated in color, in very good condition. Item Price
$20.00
Sketches of Highland Character. Sheep-Farmers and Drovers
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- 1950
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Edinburgh: Edmonston and Company, 1950. Pamphlet. 32p., illustrations, wraps. 7.25 x 4.75 in. Very Good. Reprint. First published 1865. Partly written in Scots dialect. Item Price
$15.00
Somerset Holy Wells and Other named Wells
by Horne, Ethelbert, Dom
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- 1923
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London: Somerset Folk Press, 1923. Paperback. 57p., plus publisher's menu of related materials, softbound in 7x5 inch slate-blue wraps with titling in black and a vignette decoration. Nice illustrations alternating between sepia gravures and b&w photography; the gravures are marvelous (including the tissue-guarded frontispiece) and the photos are interesting. Find a large bookplate fixed inside front cover, sound, clean… Read more about this item Item Price
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Shenandoah newsletter; vol. 27, no. 3 (June 2000)
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- 2000
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- Newsletter
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Appleton, WI: Shenandoah Newsletter, 2000. Newsletter. [21p.], staplebound newsletter reproduced from computer printout, 8.5x11 inches; postal marking on rear cover, middle mailing fold, slight edge wear, otherwise in very good condition. Excerpt from the Prison News Service c1994 by Standing Deer Wilson and his sacred encounter with Leonard Peltier shortly after two people had approached Wilson and asked him… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Folk Art of Nova Scotia. A traveling exhibition of 20th Century Folk Art [&c &c]..November 4-December 3, 1976. Exhibition will be touring [&c &c]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/457/984/1585984457.0.m.jpg)
Folk Art of Nova Scotia. A traveling exhibition of 20th Century Folk Art [&c &c]..November 4-December 3, 1976. Exhibition will be touring [&c &c]
by Riordon, Bernard, curator
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- 1976
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Halifax NS: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1976. Pamphlet. 59p., b&w exhibition pix with a few site photos and a small number in color, softbound in 9x9 inch slick staple-fastened wraps; nice clean copy, quite sound and entirely unmarked. Item Price
$17.00
Ecstasy; its history and lore
by Joseph, Miriam
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- 2000
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London: Carlton Books, 2000. Paperback. 96p., wraps; photos., price sticker on front cover, otherwise in very good condition. Item Price
$12.00
Ernest Thompson Seton's Story of Gorm, the Giant of the Club
by Seton, Julia M.
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- 1944
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- Pamphlet
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$30.00
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Los Angeles: Philosopher's Press, 1944. Pamphlet. 15, [1]p., wraps. 7.5 x 5 in. Very good. Short story with a mythical retelling of the origins of St. Christopher who helped people cross a dangerous river, as recorded by Julia, Ernest's second wife. Ernest Seton was a Canadian-American wildlife artist and writer who was influential in the early years of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Beyond the Adobe Wall - A tribute to Taos Pueblo in art and prose
by Rainer, Howard T. [and] Sharon Reyna
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- 1970
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- Pamphlet
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Taos: H and R Productions, 1970. Pamphlet. 48p., visuals and text printed sepia on nice tan paperstock, softbound in 8x8 inch sepia wraps staple-fastened, mild signs of handling but an excellent copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Item Price
$15.00
Doodling around the Ozarks. Stories of Real Ozark Folk
by Strain, Margaret (editor)
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- 1954
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[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1954. Paperback. [40]pp., wraps. 7.75 x 5 in. Covers soiled, edge wear. Inscribed by former owner on title page and title page verso: "Mary Batchelor, K-15, Caparra Heights, Puerto Rico, March 1954.". Folk tales narrated by Becky Vance, who, according to the introduction, is the informant for Margaret Strain, a tourist… Read more about this item Item Price
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Yarns of Today and Yester-Year
by Hamlin, B. Nason
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- 1950
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Milton, MA: B. Nason Hamlin, 1950. Paperback. 100pp., wraps. 9 x 6 in. Edge wear. Self-published collection of tall tales from Cape Cod. Item Price
$20.00
Mexican Native Arts & Crafts
by Covarrubias, Luis
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- 1978
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- Staplebound
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Mexico City: Eugenio Fischgrund, 1978. Staplebound. [32]pp., illustrations, wraps. 10.25 x 7 in. Translation of the Spanish text by Carmen P. Diaz de Salas. Illustrations and text by Luis Covarrubias, younger brother of the famous Mexican illustrator Miguel Covarrubias. Item Price
$15.00
Tall Tales from Texas
by Boatright, Mody C.; foreword by J. Frank Dobie
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- 1946
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Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1946. Pamphlet. 64p., stapled wraps, 5.25x8.5 inches, pages evenly toned, wraps lightly edgeworn, else very good second edition. Item Price
$15.00
Folk Festivals and the Foreign Community
by Spicer, Dorothy Gladys
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- 1923
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- Hardcover
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New York: The Womans Press, 1923. Hardcover. viii, 152p., previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and penned name on free front endpaper, else very good condition. No dust jacket. The publisher was associated with the YWCA. Item Price
$25.00
The forest rustling in the night. Tales, legends and stories from Vietnam, past and present
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- 1984
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Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1984. Paperback. 78p., pocketbook-sized wraps; pages mildly toned, two markings of the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library of Oakland, bookplate on inside cover, else very good. Item Price
$20.00
Stagolee shot Billy
by Brown, Cecil
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- 2003
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- Hardcover
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- 9780674010567
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Hardcover. 296p., very good condition in like dust jacket. The African American author's exploration of the song and its social context. Item Price
$12.00
Sarhua
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- 2000
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- Postcard
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Lima Peru: ADAPS / Asociacion de Artistas Populares de Sarhua, 2000. Postcard. Twelve postcards in a tri-lingual folder, big (6x8 inches) colorful cards on heavy alkaline cardstock, the twelve as called for (one for each of the months) painted by folk-artists living in a village of 3,000, Sarhua, and depicting daily life as conditioned by weather and season. Cards… Read more about this item Item Price
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Netsuke - A Bibliography
by Roosevelt, C.V.S.
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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Washington DC: Self-published by the author, 1978. Hardcover. vi, 105p., a nicely designed item hardbound in 9x6 inch orange cloth boards gilt, not quite "finepress" but a handsome "trade" edition provided with a colophon, limited to 300 exemplars, this being number 263. An earlier (1973) compilation, the first, was distributed (free?) "with the request that recipients inform [the author]… Read more about this item Item Price
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