Swedish Emigrant Ballads
by WRIGHT, Robert L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 209pp. Near fine/very good. Nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown; faint jacket edgewear and bit of rubbing, with single edge chip. Tight and attractive first edition of these forty ballad lyrics with side-by-side Swedish/English texts, divided up into "Songs of Justification," "Songs of Warning," Songs of Disillusionment," "Songs of Nostalgia and Farewell," "Songs of Disaster," etc.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46827
- Title
- Swedish Emigrant Ballads
- Author
- WRIGHT, Robert L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln
- Date Published
- 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Music;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.