[AFRICAN AMERICANA - MUSIC]. LOMAX, John A. and LOMAX, Alan. Negro Folk Songs as Sun by Lead Belly. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936.
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Lot Description
[AFRICAN AMERICANA - MUSIC]. LOMAX, John A. and LOMAX, Alan. Negro Folk Songs as Sun by Lead Belly. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936.
8vo. Frontispiece. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in red, in the rare dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION featuring annotated songs and an oral biography of the iconic blues legend, Huddie Ledbetter, best known as "Lead Belly," transcribed by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax who first heard the musician at the Angola Prison Farm in Louisiana in 1933.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Condition Report
Contents very good. Fading and edge wear to the spine of the jacket, some spotting to rear.
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