Frontier Ballads Heard and Gathered.
Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company, 1927. Hardcover. Woodcuts by Paul Honore. Small 4to. Black cloth with pictorial gilt and lettering. 181pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations, 2 full-page color plates, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Item #33392
Tight, clean, quite handsome first edition of this delightfully illustrated study. How can you not love a book with chapter titles such as "A Somewhat Discursive Note on Outlaws, Murderers, Pirates, Hard-Cases, Rapscallions, and Similar Radiant Figures," "New Mexican Troubadors," "A Night in a Barroom" and "When American Is Gringo"? A superb copy.
Price: $40.00
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