Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly

First Edition. 242 pp., letterpress on commercial stock in yellow cloth-covered boards with red printed title. Lacking dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece. 8vo. Very good. Minor soiling to covers. Interiors mostly clean and bright with one pencil annotation in margin, binding sturdy. [2182]

One of the richest and most attractive books on the blues legend Lead Belly, by the legendary father-son ethnomusicologist duo in their second collaborative volume. With a biographical introduction including many quotations directly transcribed from Lead Belly's oration, and a richly annotated presentation of the songs with music and lyrics. Desirable even lacking the dust jacket.