first edition
1943 · New York
by [GREAT DEPRESSION] [AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC] GUTHRIE, Woody; Billy Bragg
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Inscribed on the half-title by English musician and songwriter Billy Bragg: "Woody Guthrie lies exactly between Walt Whitman & Bob Dylan. As he said: Take it easy, but take it," signed, dated 2012; the recipient is unspecified. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [4],5-428pp, with a frontispiece portrait of Guthrie, and black & white illustrations by him throughout the text. Top-stain faded; soiling to cloth and endpapers; earlier ink ownership signature to front free endpaper; no better (truncated)