Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John A. Lomax - 1931

New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1931 The Macmillan Company, New York. 1931. Hardcover. From copyright page; 8th Printing of the 1916 New Edition with additions. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; light moisture stain on front board fore edge; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottoms; rear board has small patches of adherent paper (from DJ?); moisture stain to edges (only) of pages 277-414 for 4 inched down textblock fore edge; no warped pages or stuck pages. No DJ. Brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not cracked. 414 pp 8vo. The author was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music. This book emerged as a major collection of Western songs and had "a profound effect on other folk song students.". According to noted folklore scholar, D. K. Wilgus, the book's publication "sparked a great surge of interest in folk songs of all kinds, and in fact, inspired a search for folk material in all regions of the nation." Its success transformed John A. Lomax into a nationally known figure. These songs and ballads by anonymous cowboys and other Western figures are written down for preservation with a number of them having an accompanying score to sing in true harmony. A clean very presentable copy.