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41475Boston: Sold at the Bible & Heart in Cornhill n. d. Ca 1785. 1st printing thus and evidently the 3rd US edition Evans 19401; Ford 3015; Rosenbach 101. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Edgewear & worming with some minor loss of text. Faint fold lines. Unobtrusive expert tissue mends. In lower margin in a period hand is inked: "Lycia Pratts Verses". A Fair - Good copy. Single sheet verse in thirty-eight stanzas triple column. First line: "Now ponder well you parents dear." Followed by two additional stanzas of verse entitled: "A Word of Advice to Executors." Crude woodcut of the fighting ruffians to the left of the sub-title. Folio. 12-1/2" x 8-1/8" <br/><br/>A popular childhood ballad first registered at Stationers' Hall in 1595 the piece also subsequently published as "The Babes in the Woods." <br /> <br />Shipton & Mooney record the first US edition as 1768 followed by the Heart & Crown imprint of the 1770s no copy located though see Rosenbach 64 then this Bible & Heart version ca 1785 date from Evans. <br /> <br />A quite rare 18th C. US children's broadside. Sold at the Bible & Heart, in Cornhill unknown books
2014108521Museum. New. 2014. Paperback. 0942949382 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
179528043London 1795 1795. The only recorded edition. ESTC T204804 recording a single copy at Cambridge which contains the same apothecary's stamp. OCLC and COPAC record that same copy; Roud Folk Song Index V1851; and see Broadside Ballads Online at the Bodleian Library which also notes the apothecary's stamp. Paper repaired on the verso; some soiling and smudges; chipped in the upper margin with some loss but only to the blank margins; two small remains of mounting tape on the verso in the upper margin; a rare survival. Broadside 36 x 12 cm woodcut headpiece. Nine four-line stanzas. Attractive oval stamp in the lower margin of Peter Henry Chymist. A typical doggerel poem and somewhat bawdy written in the form of a slip ballad which begins "You young men all both far and near / Listen a while and you shall hear / Take care you're not drawn in a snare / By the girls that do love brandy / Wack Fla la &c." And in the fourth stanza: "'Tis on your backs girls you must lie / Pray which of you would this deny / A dish of tea or brandy." Etc. <br/><br/> [London, 1795?] unknown books
1809174972London: printed and sold by Jennings c.1809. A ballad telling a tragic tale of lovers tricked apart by "cruel" and "covetous" parents. Similar ballads often feature an unfaithful and avaricious antiheroine who suffers a cautionary downfall. Here however Susan is a "harmless maid" and it is families who are warned against prioritizing wealth over the happiness of the younger generation. The love triangle between a woman her husband and a sailor was a common trope in 17th- to 19th-century ballads but most had several key differences to this version. The woman was normally the one to prioritize financial gain unlike Susan who declares that "No wealth nor riches shall make me disloyal". The sailor was typically a demonic character sometimes the Devil in disguise whereas "sweet William" is an honest and faithful man. In most ballads only the woman dies while the sailor-demon escapes; both Susan and William perish here. Such entertaining ballads were an outlet for people "to voice tensions to work over the contradictions of human life" Gammon p. 237. The Plymouth Tragedy reflects an exasperation with the requirements on the young especially women to conform with their parents' desires at the expense of their own happiness. Single sheet 255 x 360 mm printed in columns. Woodcut vignette. A little nicked at edges old centre fold reinforced on verso with paper; overall a well-preserved copy of a fragile publication. Vic Gammon "Song Sex and Society in England 1600-1850" Folk Music Journal vol. 4 no. 3 1982. unknown
1810174973London: printed and sold by J. Pitts c.1810. An ephemeral broadside ballad detailing the story of Jane Shore a mistress of Edward IV and a popular cultural reference for many centuries. Shore's heavily fictionalized story featured many elements considered to have mass appeal in the era: a sexually voracious woman a relationship that transcended social hierarchies and an ending that punished transgressive behaviour. In Mrs. Jane Shore the eponymous character is described as a married woman who became King Edward's concubine and "lived in the court/With lords and ladies of great sort". Whilst she had influence over the King she ensured "to help the people that were poor" and "sav'd their lives condemned to die". Regardless her infidelity ultimately led to her social disgrace and she died in a ditch in East London. As detailed in the ballad urban mythology claimed that her unfortunate death gave the Shoreditch district its name. Ballads such as this were sung in a variety of communal spaces including pubs lodging houses and the streets and typically took criminal or socially deviant behaviour as their subject. In their own time broadside ballads were believed "to foster immorality and to glorify crime" O'Brien p. 16. More recent interpretations appreciate their literary and social value and consider that "their job was to voice tensions to work over the contradictions of human life" Gammon p. 237. Landscape single sheet 362 x 252 mm printed in columns. A little chipped at the edges but overall a well-preserved copy of a fragile publication. Vic Gammon "Song Sex and Society in England 1600-1850" Folk Music Journal vol. 4 no. 3 1982; Ellen L. O'Brien "'The Most Beautiful Murder': The Transgressive Aesthetics of Murder in Victorian Street Ballads" Victorian Literature and Culture vol. 28 no. 1 2000. unknown
18285421London: T. Birt 1828. First edition. Single sheet measuring 250 x 185mm and printed in two columns to recto. Some edgewear to margins not affecting text; a bit of foxing and toning largely confined to margins. A scarce and delicate survivor OCLC documents only one example at the National Library of Scotland. The present is the only example on the market.<br /> <br /> The Dandy Wife is narrated by a man who aimed "to choose me out a loving wife" at the age of twenty-one but whose experience becomes a warning to "all young men of high renown": "If you want a tidy wife Beware of a boarding school." What unfolds is a satire of how the marriage economy is affected when women have access to knowledge -- intellectual and physical -- and how by meeting a man's superficial expectations a woman can fulfill her own more pressing needs.<br /> <br /> Thinking that a boarding school girl will have the innocence submissiveness and domestic skill he desires the narrator selects a wife from among their ranks. Thinking only of what he can obtain from such a bargain he is unprepared for what an educated woman brings into his house. The Dandy Wife he describes understands the commodity value of her own beauty and material adornment and that these are her key means for acquiring wealth of her own. "She takes one-half of what I earn In drinking gin and tea; Besides such frills and furbelows My Dandy Wife does wear.Her sleeves upon her dandy gown Oh! Lack they're such a size You'd think they were two balloons that in the air would rise." Aside from staying on par with fashion trends her clothing assists her in avoiding domestic tasks she abhors. She refuses to do laundry more than monthly and through ridiculous cooking failures she rapidly establishes that the kitchen is not a showcase for her skillset. Accustomed to a life of learning she is not trained to conduct domestic business. <br /> <br /> By the ballad's end it becomes clear that the Dandy Wife was savvier in managing a marriage than her husband was. For not only does her superior intellect help her carve out a more satisfying role but she also has physical knowledge that predates him: "The day that I was married I thought I'd got a charming maid But I was much deceived.For scarce five months we'd married been When she had a darling son. T. Birt unknown
1933002794Paris, Librairie Plon (Imprimerie Lahure), 1933
First and only edition, 12mo, [2], 45, [1]pp., with half-title, some minor spotting, orig. marbled paper wrappers, cont. manuscript notation of title and author on upper cover "The Battle of Newland 1790, By Benjn. Clarkson, Alverthorpe Hall". ESTC fails to attribute this to an any particular author, however, the contemporary inscription on the upper cover does give strong evidence to Benjamin Clarkson as being the writer of these poems. Benjamin Clarkson (d. 1820), a Wakefield attorney, resided at Alverthorpe Hall. "Several well known circumstances which happened some years ago in the town and neighbourhood of Wakefield, gave rise to the following Ballad". (Advertisement leaf). Rare; ESTC locating 4 copies (all in the UK).
Signed and inscribed by author, dated 1918, atop first blank leaf. 66 pages. Accepted by the Royal Society of Canada as part of their Proceedings, 1918. "Tsoqalem, according to the Indians, was a real historic character, a member of the Cowichan tribe, a Vancouver Island division of that linguistic group of the Salish stock known to us under the term Halkomalem, whose habitat is and was the Lower Fraser Valley. How far the incidents of this story are literally true it is now impossible to say, as myth and fact are inextricably woven together in it; but there can be little doubt that an Indian of the character of Tsoqalem existed some generations ago among the Cowichans, and met with a tragic end at the hand of a woman, somewhat in the manner recorded in the story." - from Foreword. Front cover loose but present. Portions of backstrip missing. Age-toning to contents. Above-average external wear. Binding tender. (Amtmann 488, Watters p.88) Book
Sensational vintage compilation of thirty-five 1930s lumberjack songs from the Pacific Northwest. Elmore Vincent was known as "The Northwest Shanty Boy" and the front cover art features his image superimposed over a scene of tall timber being brought down by hand, as chainsaws were but a dream at that time. 64 pages. Includes lyrics, guitar chords and piano sheet music for these songs: A Lumber Lad's Love, Ballad of the Lumberjack, Billy the River Driver, Canaday-I-O, Come With Me In My Little Canoe, Darling Janet, Down in That Lonely Valley, Drinking Song, Fair Charlotte, Grizzly Hogan, Lonesome Lumberjack, Lumberjack Memories, Moose Meat, Smart Johnny the Logger, Song of the Lumberjack, Strawberry Lane, The Death of George Phalen, The Flying Cloud, The Gambling Lumberjack and the Jim Creek Girl, The Good Old Times, The Great Fit, The Green River Girl, "The Jam at Gerry's Rock", The Lakes of Pontchartrain, Three Leaves of Shamrock, The Little Brown Bulls, The Lumberjack and the Pretty Girl, The Lumberjack's Alphabet, The Lumberjack's Bible, The Lumberjack in Town [as sung on Seattle's "Skid Road" by Syd Johnson], The Sandy Stream Song, The Stranger and the Maiden Fair, The Two Sisters, Who Feeds Us Beans, and Yodeling Lumberjack. Most songs have several verses or more. Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. A rare and wonderful musical memento of the glory days of Northwest lumberjacking. Book
19021150811902 Paris, imprimé pour Charles Meunier, "Maison du Livre", 1902, 1 volume in-folio de 240x310 mm environ, 235 pages. Tirage à 115 exemplaires, un des 100 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin de cuve, enrichi d'un dessin original signé de Robida, bien complet du frontispice et des 50 eaux-fortes, des deux suites des illustrations (une en noir, une bistre) et de la suite sur Chine des culs-de-lampe. Pleine reliure à la bradel en veau clair marbré sous emboîtage, dos portant titres dorés et petit décor doré, gardes couleurs, couvertures conservées. Marques d'usure sur l'emboîtage, ors du dos légèrement passés, quelques frottements sur la reliure, sinon bon état, intérieur frais.
1738WRCAM16147London 1738. 7pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Folio. Later wrappers. Minor tears at folds of leaves else good. First edition first issue. An extremely attractive 18th-century British ballad critical of Walpole's dealing with Spain. The full-page woodcut shows the Spanish king pulling the tale of the British lion which is about to mount a cart and be led away by a group of clerics harnessed to the wagon. The text attacks the British conciliation with Spain in 1738-39 and suggests that "you excise them in land I'll excise them by sea" in other words buccaneering. unknown books
19103881910 1 Relié, demi-chagrin fauve serti d'un filet à froid, dos lisse décoré de frises et fleurons dorés, auteur, titre et illustrateur de même, tête cramoisie, couvertures parcheminées conservées. 29,5 x 21 cm, 109 p., nombreuses illustrations gravées. Paris, Auguste Blaizot - René Kieffer, Collection Eclectique, 1910.
19103881910 1 Relié, demi-chagrin fauve serti d'un filet à froid, dos lisse décoré de frises et fleurons dorés, auteur, titre et illustrateur de même, tête cramoisie, couvertures parcheminées conservées. 29,5 x 21 cm, 109 p., nombreuses illustrations gravées. Paris, Auguste Blaizot - René Kieffer, Collection Eclectique, 1910.
AQ25363London: Printed by W. & T. Bailey s.d. c.1785-1799 Single leaf broadside edges uncut. Shaving to foot with loss of imprint. A remarkably rare survival of 'three-half-pence' broadside verse satire in which a fight breaks out among a group of Dutchmen in a Chelsea tavern. The title of the bawdy ballad is a corruption of the Dutch expression 'donder en bliksem' meaning 'thunder and lightning'. ESTC records a single copy Oxford. ESTC N71592. Dimensions 200 x 290 mm. [Printed by W. & T. Bailey], [s.d., c.1785-1799] unknown
190210924Paris, P. Sevin et E. Rey (Tours, Imprimerie Deslis Frères), 1902 ; in-8 ; demi-maroquin à coins vert foncé, dos à quatre nerfs encadrant les pièces d'auteur et de titre mandarine, tête dorée, couverture prune illustrée d'un hibou sur fond de lune dorée, et dos conservés.
38299Pais, Lemerre en 1876. In-8 en plein maroquin signé Cuzin. Exemplaire n° 46 sur papier Whatman, signé au crayon bleu par l'éditeur. Soixante ballades choisies. 185 pages avec Notes, Appendice, Index des Auteurs, Index des Ballades. Belle reliure janséniste. Bel exemplaire avec quelques rousseurs sur les pages de garde.Tranches dorées.
25759Paris, Eugene Rey, 1914 15.2x20.6 cm., 224 pp., edition avec un portrait de Jehan Rictus par Steinlen en n/b et 3 fac-similes de lettres d' Albert Samain et de Stephane Mallarme adressees a l'auteur, relie demi-maroquin brun a coins, signee par Laurent Peeters - Anvers. Filet dore cernant les plats de pap., dos orne, dos a 4 nerfs et finnement fleuronnes dores (decor floral), tete doree, couverture imprimee d'editeur. Tirage limite. Tirage de 1000 exemplaires sur papier velin d'Arches numerotes de 126 a 1125.
80 pages. Features all songs from two great ARS albums: A Rock and Roll Alternative, and Champagne Jam. Songs include: Don't Miss the Message; Everybody Gotta Go; Georgia Rhythm; Hitch Hiker's Hero; Neon Nites; Outside Woman Blues; Sky High; So Into You; (The) Ballad of Lois Malone; Champagne Jam; Evileen; (The) Great Escape; I'm not Gonna Let it Bother Me Tonight; Imaginary Lover; Large Time; Normal Love. Includes seven pages of photos of the band and its members. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A high-quality copy of this vintage original songbook. Book
Pages 588-610. Features: Cover illustration by Ernest L. Blumenschein entitled "Wards of the Nation - Their First Vacation From School" depicts a Native American scene; British Problems in Asia; This Busy World; The Passing of John Barrett, United States Minister to Siam; Photos from the Philippines - Admiral Dewey Going for a Drive Around Manila, Admiral Dewey at the Office of the Captain of the Port at Manila, Dakota and Montana Troops Crossing Wrecked Bridge over the Rio Grande; The Philippine Revolt - The Malolos Campaign; Photos and write-ups of these men in the news - Frank Thomson of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Major Arthur M. Diggles who was lost in the Malolos Campaign, Augustin Daly, Rev. W.H.P. Faunce of Brown University, and George K. Nash, Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio; Full-page illustration by W.A. Rogers entitled "Conquering a Desert in Southern Arizona"; A page of photos and illustrations along the route of the proposed Nicaragua Canal; The Nicaragua Canal in Sight - article by Francis E. Leupp; Ballad of Leiutenant Miles; Two-page centerfold compilation of photos and illustration depicting the proposed Nicaragua Canal, the country through which it will pass, and the people along the route; Hawaiian-America; An American Sovereign (continued); Amateur Sport - considerable text with six photos; Poem To Augustin Daly; The Conspirators (continued); Great vintage ads, including an illustrated one for the Columbia Bevel-Gear Chainless Bicycle from the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
AQ31852London: J. Pitts s.d. c. 1820-44 Single leaf broadside edges uncut. Printed in four columns. With three woodcut vignettes. Old central vertical fold. A trifle creased and marked. A rare survival of a broadside ballad in which the captain of a ship bound for India discovers on board the young servant girl whom he had pledged to wed but then abandoned. He finds that she is carrying his child and though at first angered by her 'betrayal' agrees to marry. However 'fortune to them proves unkind' and a storm descends upon them sweeping the maiden into the sea. When the captain finds her body 'floating on the main' two days later he casts himself overboard to 'share the same fate'. The publishing house of John Pitts 1765-1844 was responsible for a prodigious output of cheap popular printing in the first half of the nineteenth-century. COPAC records copies at just two locations BL and Hull; OCLC adds two further Adelaide and Toronto. . Dimensions 360 x 250 mm. [J. Pitts], [s.d., c. 1820-44] unknown
FIRST EDITION of these newly-discovered works by Chartier. v, [10] pp. Introduction by Chennevieres. Text beautifully printed in red and black in black letter (Gothic type). Edition limited to 120 copies printed on fine handmade laid paper. Squarish 8vo. Original plain wraps, with "Alain Chartier" written in calligraphy on fron cover. Minimal wear and soiling to wraps. Internally uncut, bright, and fine. VERY RARE.
1827100140Paris, De l’Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1827. In-4, demi-veau vert à coins, dos à nerfs orné d’un décor doré. (quelques rares rousseurs éparses).
60 pages. Great colour photos of George Benson. Includes music, guitar chords, and lyrics for the following songs: A Change is Gonna Come, Before You Go, Hey Girl, Livin' Inside Your Love, Love Ballad, Love is a Hurtin' Thing, Nassau Day, Prelude to Fall, Soulful Strut, Unchained Melody, Welcome into my World, You're Never too Far From Me. Bookseller's stamp to title page else clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this rare collection of these beautiful songs. Book
Sven-Bertil JanssonNot in perfect condition. unknown
