Frontier Ballads Heard and Gathered by Charles J. Finger. Woodcuts by Paul Honore
signed first edition
1927 · Garden City
by FINGER, CHARLES J
Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1927. First Edition. One of 201 deluxe copies signed by Charles Finger and Paul Honore, and tipped in is an original woodcut of a pirate. “Songs from Lawless Lands with some of their tunes as heard and set down by Charles J. Finger, many here printed for the first time, together with a true account of the manner of their singing by gold hunters in the Andes, men on shipboard, hard-cases who were beach combers, fellows in the calaboose, South Sea smugglers, sealers, bartenders, and some who have since achieved fame”. About fine with the gilt edge still bright and in the original publisher’s slipcase, which has some edge wear. (Inventory #: 5163N)