Bruce Jackson. The Negro and his Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (American Folklore Society Publication No. 18). Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967. First edition. Octavo. 374pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown top-stain, endleaves in orange, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer, photographer.....

John A. Lomax. John A. Lomax Jr., Introduction. William D. Wittliff, illustrator. Cow Camps & Cattle Herds. Austin: The Encino Press, 1967. Limited edition, No. 102 of 750 numbered copies. Signed by John A. Lomax Jr.  and additionally inscribed by Margaret W. Lomax. Quarto. 62pp. Designed and illustrated by William D. Wittliff. Publisher's green cloth, spine.....

John A. Lomax. Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp. New York: Macmillan Company, 1939. Reprint edition. Title page inscribed by John A. Lomax and dated 1940. Octavo. 189pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer, photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas.....

William Stanley Braithwaite. Lyrics of Life and Love. Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1904. First edition. Octavo. 80pp. Author portrait frontispiece. Publisher's yellow quarter cloth over charcoal gray paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover in yellow, deckled edges.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and.....

Luigi Cherbuni. Cours De Contrpoint Et De Fugue (Counterpoint and Fugue Lessons). Paris: Heugel et Cie, [No date, circa 1889]. Second edition.Quarto. 204pp. Contemporary brown cloth, stamped in gilt to spine. Text in French.Copy of Paul Rey. His book with ink ownership signature and occasional ink notes throughout. Paul Rey.....

Marcia Davenport. Mozart. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First edition. Octavo. 400pp (indexed). Illustrated. Handsomely rebound in green half leather over green marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, four raised bands, marbled endleaves.From the collection of Robin and Kathryn Smiley. 

J. W. Elliott. Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. Set to Music. New York: McLoughlin Bros., [No date, circa 1900]. Reprint edition. Quarto. [111]pp. Illustrated with drawings by J. W. Elliott. Publisher's red quarter cloth over glossy pictorial paper-covered boards.  From the Reed K. Bilz collection of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.

Arnold Gingrich. A Thousand Mornings of Music: The Journal of an Obsession with the Violin. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970. First edition. Inscribed by author. Octavo. 256pp. Illustrated with black and white photos. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black, decorated endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket. 

Nat Hentoff. David Stone Martin, illustrator. Journey Into Jazz. New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. First edition.Octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color, with drawings by David Stone Martin. Publisher's illustrated hardcover paper boards (a Cpoward-McCann guaranteed binding). Original dust jacket listing a retail price of $3.96.

Una and Robinson Jeffers. Dave Oliphant, introduction. A Book of Gaelic Airs for Una's Melodeon (Book Club Publication Number 191). San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989. First edition, one of 500 copies designed by Ward Ritchie. Oblong quarto. [viii], 173pp. Illustrated with sketches by Robinson Jeffers. Publisher's white cloth, printed title to spine.....

[Larry McMurtry Collection] John Williamson Palmer. Folk Songs. New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1867. New edition. Octavo. 596pp. Illustrated. Handsomely bound in contemporary brown full leather, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, all edge gilt, gilt dentelle turn-ins over marbled endleaves. From the collection.....

Francis Turner Palgrave. Maxfield Parrish, illustrator. A Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. New York: Duffield & Company, 1911. First edition.Quarto. 373pp (indexed). Illustrated with eight color plates (including frontispiece) by Maxfield Parrish. Publisher's dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, with illustrated pastedown to front board.

Charles Stuart Pratt. W. L. Taylor, illustrator. Music by G. W. Chadwick. Baby's Lullaby Book. Mother Songs. Boston: Prang & Company, 1888. First edition. Large quarto (approx. 13 x 11 inches). Unpaginated. Illustrated, with color frontispiece and vignette title, plus fourteen full-color tissue-guarded plates by W.L. Taylor. Bound in publisher’s pictorial silk, lettered in.....