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LOMAX, John A. and Alan, editors. Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly. “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World,” Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana. New York: Macmillan Company, 1936.
Large 8vo. Photographic frontispiece. Original tan buckram lettered in red-orange, black top stain (some minor spotting to fore-edge, else fine); cloth slipcase. Provenance: E. Bayly (ownership signature on front pastedown); bookseller’s ticket.
FIRST EDITION of the work that brought blues and folk musician Huddie Ledbetter to fame, published just two years after his release from prison. An unusually fine copy.