Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1936. 8vo. Frontispiece. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in red, in the rare dust jacket.

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.