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, top edge stained black (light darkening to spine ends); dust jacket (3 1/2 in. tear with loss to spine panel, several other losses to extremes, areas reinforced on verso). Provenance: Rudi Blesh (1899-1985), American jazz critic (ownership signature on front pastedown).

FIRST EDITION featuring annotated songs and an oral biography of the iconic blues legend, Huddie Ledbetter, best known as "Lead Belly," transcribed by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax who first heard the musician at the Angola Prison Farm in Louisiana in 1933.

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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.

Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

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.

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