Negro Folk Songs ~ SIGNED by LEAD BELLY ~ John A. Lomax First Edition 1936 BLUES

Description: Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly by John A. & Alan Lomax First edition signed by Lead Belly New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing. Signed by blues legend Lead Belly, AKA Hugh Ledbetter, on the front free endpaper, inscribed to "Marge and Lewis." Author and bookseller Larry McMurtry's copy with his bookplate on paste down. xiv, 242 pp. with frontispiece portrait. Bound in publisher's coarse ochre cloth stamped in red; lacking the dust jacket. Good+ with dampstaining to spine and along top edge of text block, occasionally intruding into top margins of pages with light associated soiling. Additional bookplate on paste down above McMurtry's, other former owners' inscriptions on verso of front free endpaper, a few marginal notations in pencil, a few tiny stains and slightly dog-eared pages. A classic of American folk and roots music, 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. This work brought subject Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter (1888-1949) to fame, having first been discovered by father-and-son folklorists the Lomaxs at Louisiana's Angola Prison Farm in the summer of 1933. Quite rare signed by him.

Price: 12500 USD

Location: Portland, Oregon

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