Books by ALLEN William

New York: Oak Publications. 1965. 175p., 9x12 inches, lightly worn wraps. Music printed in text for 116 songs. Reprint of the 1867 edition. This work is one of the earlist collections and the first serious appraisal of African American slave songs. The book, a joint effort, by noted classical scholar and former Freedman's Bureau teacher, William Francis Allen; musican and abolitionist Lucy McKim Garrison (wife of Wendell Phillip Garrison) and Charles Pickard Ware. Mrs. Garrison collected and transcribed... more information

Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company, Publishers, Inc.. VG. 1992. Hardcover. Reprint, 115 pages, brown library buckrim with white printing to spine. Library stamps on front free end paper and small sticker to spine. Just a bit of scuffing to the top of front cover. Otherwise, contents are bright and clean. A Near Very Good copy. . ... more information

New York: Peter Smith, 1929. Reprint.. Octavo (21cm). Green cloth boards; xlii, 115pp. Cover gilt slightly dulled, else a tight, VG copy. Facsimile reprint of the 1867 edition. The first serious musicological analysis of African-American music. Includes words and transcriptions for 135 songs. ... more information

1929. ALLEN, William Francis. [With Charles Pickard Ware & Lucy McKim Garrison]. SLAVE SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES. NY: Peter Smith, 1929. 8vo., green boards, stamped in gilt. Second Edition. The earleist collection of Negro spirituals and the first serious study of the genre. Most of the songs were collected in the Port Royal Islands of South Carolina. Signed presentation from Smith, the publisher, on the front endpaper: "To W.F. Charters, The Playboy of the Western World, with all good wishes from... more information