Search Results: Folklore from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Monuments Serica , 1965. RARE. Reprint from Monumenta Serica Vol. XXIV, 1965. Near fine, slight soiling rear cover. Paginated 207-272. Addenda sheet laid in. . Reprint. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1898. Very Good Plus, in original brown cloth lettered in gilt and blindstamped with red decorations, black end papers (professionally restored), small rubs to cloth at corners, scattered marginal stamps of a hand with pointing finger, no other markings, clean and tight. xv, (1), 379 pages, 12 illustrations. Originally published 1884, title page date of 1898. . Later Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Moe Asch, DISC Company of America, 1947. 48 pp. Illustrations by Woody Guthrie and York Cunningham, Jr. Contains a short biography, reminiscences and a collection of Guthrie's song lyrics. Very Good in original wrappers, rubbed at spine edge and bottom corner rear wrapper, residue along spine edge, small stain inside rear wrapper and rear end pages. A quite nice copy of this SCARCE Woody Guthrie book. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Tall 8vo.

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska, 1937. A notable folklore Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page - "To Stith Thompson - "Hop, skip, down the wilderness" BA Botkin 6/30/37". Botkin is best remembered for his "A Treasury of American Folklore" and for his government positions at the Federal Writers’ Project, Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Works Progress Administration and as chief editor of the Writers’ Unit of the Library of Congress Project. Stith Thompson is best known for his work on the classification of motifs in folk tales. His six-volume "Motif-Index of Folk-Literature "(1955-1958) is considered the international key to traditional material. The book is Good only, mostly because of wrappers- old tape mends at spine, 1/3 approx. of rear wrapper torn and missing, label taped at spine and stamped "Folklore Institute Reading Collection" title page. Contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. A SCARCE… Read More

Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1884. One of 275 small-paper copies printed for subscribers. Very Good in the original red cloth, light soiling to cloth, ribbon marker, the usual offsetting to endpapers, spine label with complete lettering, the label with small chip and darkened and a bit rubbed. Overall a handsome copy. . Limited First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1928. Boas' classic treatise on race and culture, RARE in the original 1928 First Edition and in collectible condition. 236pp. + 10 pp references. Very Good in the original black cloth with paper labels front board and spine, spine label a bit darkened and a trifle rubbed, cloth a few small rubs, contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley, CA: Arhoolie Records, Inc., 1971. SCARCE. Promotional newspaper from Arhoolie Records, Inc., founded by Chris Strachwitz and his business partner Tom Diamant in 1960. one of the iconic early publishers of folk music, blues, and jazz. 20 pp. with numerous articles on recent and upcoming record publications and other company and music industry news. illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, Graphic Design: Wayne Pope. Very Good, center fold as issued, interior pages uniformly age toned, tears bottom edge at corner in margin, closed small tear rear cover. . First Printing. Newsprint. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1947. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page-" To my colleague and friend James W. Marchand with greetings, Clair Hayden Bell 28th March, 1960". Four volumes in original red cloth, Very Good, no jackets, spines slight sunning, spine lean, Marchand's name stamp front end page, with laid in photocopy of a review of the book published in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. I, No. 4, October, 1951. Bell's monumental study of Meistergesang, one of the most characteristic forms assumed by German literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With presentation inscription to the noted medieval scholar, linguist, and polyglot James W, Marchand. A wonderful scholarly Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

London, Melbourne, Toronto: Macmillan, 1968. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"John Johnson with best wishes Margaret Laurence". Review Copy, with publisher's review slip laid in. Near Fine, small corner bumps, in a Very Good dust jacket, light edge wear, mainly at corners and spine ends. With Johnson's blind stamp front end page. John William Johnson (1942) is a noted folklorist with a distinguished teaching and publishing career and who spent a year and a half translating and editing for the renowned Somali folklorist and poet Haaji Muuse Galaal. A great folkloric Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

Athens, OH: Swallow Press/ Ohio Univ. Press , 1987. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR John Matthias on title page to a colleague and friend. Fine, in Wraps, as Issued. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Trade Paperback Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Helsinki, Finland: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1980. From the collection of noted sociologist Allen Grimshaw, with his name stamp front endpage and top edge of page block. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page -" To the Grimshaws, Affectionately, Roger". Additionally, laid in is a single page handwritten letter from the author to Allen Grimshaw requesting his help with a reference he was using in the book. The book is Fine in Wrappers, As Issued. A nice Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. Association Copy.

Helsinki, Finland: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1939. Near Fine, couple of small chips at edge of rear wrapper. Pages are uncut, and contents are As New. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

Ann Arbor, MI: Bear Claw Press, 1976. Howard Norman's SCARCE first published book. First Edition stated. Very Good Plus, small rub to wrappers near bottom edge of spine, faint label shadow top edge front wrapper. faint creases to wrappers. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: Folk - Song Society of the Northeast, 1930. 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 and collector of traditional folk ballads in New England, in 1930, and he edited this journal until his death in 1937. . First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1899. RARE in the 1899 First Edition. Very Good, sticker abrasion bottom front and rear wrappers, rubbing and a few small stains to wrappers. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page and a few interior pages with blindstamp as well. 48 pp. A Lecture delivered at the request of the Senate of University College, Liverpool. Edward Harper Parker ( 1849-1926 ) was a barrister and noted China scholar, and although not a trained linguist, his greatest contribution historically may well be his unusual outlook on colloquial Chinese language. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

No Place: Stinson Records No Author. No Place (Los Angeles), no date, circa late 1950s- early 1960s. Listings for Stinson SLP #1-85 and #1000-1003. Typed one side, with title, musician, Stinson SLP#, a brief summary of the recording, list of songs, size and number of LPs, List and Net prices. Lacking pages for #s 67, 71, 72, 75-77, 80-82. Unpaginated, 80 pp. Bound in black stiff paper brad binder, title label front cover, Very Good Plus, small corner creases top corners rear cover and final 6 pages. No listing found at Worldcat. Stinson Records was an important early publisher of folk music and blues, recording such artists as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Josh White, and Sonny Terry. . Brads. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boston: American Folklore Society , 1966. Eight pages, typed one side, stapled top left, on 8 1/2" x 11" paper. Very Good, uniformly browning, light soiling. SCARCE piece of American Folklore Society history. The Society was originally founded in 1888. . First Thus. Stapled. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Palmer, Michigan: National Hillbilly Record Collectorss Exchange, 1951. RARE. 16 issues of Disc Collector; Official Organ of National Hillbilly Record Collectors' Exchange, later renamed Disc Collector: "The Country Record Collectors Bible". This mimeographed country and folk music journal which has been called a veritable "research discography". Published quarterly starting in 1951, the 16 issues are Vol. 1, Nos.1-4, 1951; Vol. 2, Nos. 1-3, 1952; and Nos. 10, 12-19, 1957-1961. With a hand-written artist index on 4" x 6" index cards giving artist name, issue number and page number, no indication of author but from the collection of noted folklorist Frank Hoffman. Additionally, Disc Collectors New Letter, Nos. 1-5, Jan.-Sept. 1964, along with 2 pages of New Releases and a blank application for membership to Disc Collectors Record Club. Very Good or better overall, slight musty smell, assorted small corner creases. A remarkable and RARE treasure trove for the… Read More

Cairo, Egypt: Self-published, 1958. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY Baheega Sidky Rasheed in Cairo and dated by him Jan. 1961 on title page. small corner creases, light wear to paper at spine. Stamped " Folklore Institute Reading Collection" on dedication page. 97 pp. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1917. xxviii, 341 ps., oroginal blue gloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Very Good, gilt at spine dulled, front hinge cracked yet holding nicely, 3 pages of Introduction with top corner creases. Originally from the collection of Anne F. Oberndorfer, her signature in pencil front end page. Anne Shaw Faulkner Oberndorfer (1877-1948) a prominent Chicago music educator and a frequent contributor to Better Homes & Gardens, The Ladies' Home Journal and Child Life magazines during the 1920s. Later from the collection of noted music professor John Planer of Manchester University, his bookplate front paste down. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.