Frontier Ballads: Heard and Gathered 1st Edition in Dust Jacket 1927 by Charles Finger Cowboy Songs - Outlaw Songs - Sea Shanty - Music

Title: Frontier Ballads: Heard and Gathered

Author: Charles J. Finger
Illustrator: Paul Honore

Description: Stated First Edition. Black cloth boards pictorially stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket color-faded on front panel and spine; chipped at head of spine; other minor general edgewear; not price clipped ($3.50). DJ in archival sleeve. Three color plates (one plate is torn and repaired). Index to first lines. 181 pp. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Woodcuts by Paul Honore.

Charles Joseph Finger (1869-1941) was a British born writer, musician, educator, and adventurer. Frontier Ballads was a collection of his favorite songs. In addition to the songs, he also tells how it was sung and the circumstances under which he heard it. He made notes at those times as to exactly how it was sung (the dramatic pauses, the drafts from a mug of beer in between, the waiting while the singer puffed a pipe, the salty comments interspersed between the lines, etc.).

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
Place: Garden City
Year: 1927

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: Paul Honore, cowboy songs, sea chanties, outlaw songs, chantey, shanty