First Editions These are advance professional copies, issued 1948-1957. Songwriters include: Fred Rose, Albert E. Brumley, Odell McLeod, Ira and Charles Louvin, Ray Lunsford, and J.M. Purdom. Includes a few duplicates. 9" x 6". n y

First Editions These are advance professional copies, most issued in the 1940s. Songwriters include: Bill Monroe, Carter Stanley, Ted Vandall, Jewell Gilbert, "Pappy" Cheshire, Bob Warren, Martin Broones, Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree, Guy Wood, Buddy Starcher, Burrell Van Buren, Joseph J. Harris, Cousin Joe Maphis, Floyd Tillman, Tex Fletcher, Benee Russell, George Cardini, Fred Kirby, Walter and Johnny Bailes, Bill Boyd, Bill Nettles, Al Clauser, Alberta McEnery, Jimmie Davis, Jimmy Osborne, Harry Tobias, Larry Shay, Roy Acuff, Redd Harper, Al Vignali, Red Rowe, and a few others. 11" x 8.5". n y

1st edition.~ Decorated cloth, VG+. xvi+448pp, engraved frontis, engraved title & 28 engraved vignettes by George & Robert Cruickshank & engraved by J R Marshall, gathers are beginning to come away from the binding despited the pages still being unopened, a nice copy, in need of re sewing. Volume 2 only. ~ Nicely produced odd volume which contains several hundred ballads & songs. many are love songs, although there are comic & dialect songs too.

10" (25.4 cm) Tall Stapled binding is holding pages tightly. Pages clean but age-darkened. Wraps are brittle, a bit fragile at staples with edge wear, shelf wear, fading around edges. 48 pp. Contents: Emma Swan, "Amour among Animals"; William Troy, "The New Parnassianism and Recent Poetry"; Nicholas Moore, "Interlude with a Pu-Pu Bird"; John Malcolm Brinnin, "The Acrobats"; Beverly Baff, "Script"; Gray Burr, "Harbor Impression"; David Newton, "Major Catastrophe"; Barbara Howes, "Carpe Diem"; Howard Moss, "The Robbery"; Pablo Neruda, "Return of Autumn"; Priscilla Bromley, "Watch"; Richard Eberhart, "White Lily and Hail"; Jean Wahl, "On Poetry"; Harvey Buchanan, "Annunciation"; Weldon Kees, "Girl at Midnight"; Edwin Honig, "Ballads for Janus"; book reviews. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1240091.jpg

9.0" (23 cm) Tall Square, tight binding. Clean, bright text pages. Smudge on lower right corner of title page. Wraps have edge rubbing, light handling wear. 190 pp. Literary criticism focusing on various Medieval works, including Chaucer, Morte Arthure, Beowulf, and other authors and works. Contributors: John Nist, Rose A. Zimbardo, Edgar H. Duncan, Walter Scheps, Bernard S. Levy, J. B. Bessinger Jr., Albert C. Baugh, Larry D. Benson, George Clark, Robert T. Meyer, Hugh T. Keenan, Paul Beekman Taylor, Robert P. Creed, J. Edwin Whitesell, Fred C. Robinson, Edward B. Irving Jr., T. M. Pearce, Charles B. McClelland. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/850049.jpg

9.0" (23 cm) Tall Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. 148 pp. Short stories, essays, art and role-playing game materials evoking New Orleans. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1250068.jpg

Limited Edition Limited/Numbered 63 / 360 copies SIGNED by Rex Whistler. In the original published half vellum, and decorative paper boards. the blue vellum has faded to white on the spine, and the boards are marked. This is, however, a clean copy internally. Chiswick Shop