Bulletin of the Folk-Song Society of the Northeast , Numbers 1-12, the Complete Issue, 1930-1937

Cambridge, MA: Folk - Song Society of the Northeast, 1930. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. RARE, Worldcat shows 3 holdings worldwide, all in Europe, and no individual numbers found in any commercial database. The complete 12 issue run of this seminal folksong journal published 1930-1937, from the collection of noted folklorist Frank A. Hoffmann, his folk music-inspired bookplate front paste down. Bound in green cloth with two black leather labels at spine lettered in gilt, Near Fine, staining to rear board and rear paste down, the bulletins are all Fine. The Folk-Song Society was founded by Phillips Barry, American academic (truncated) and collector of traditional folk ballads in New England, in 1930, and he edited this journal until his death in 1937.. (Inventory #: 008099)