Broadside ballads (5 Ergebnisse)

Broadside. Circa 1870s. Composed by T. S. Lonsdale. Four verses, chorus, and spoken parts with an ornamental border. Measures 9 x 26.5 cm (3.5 x 10.5"). Trimmed. Minor foxing and a tiny closed tear to the edge. Very good.

Broadside. Circa 1850s. No. 38. Composed by L. V. H. Crosby. Three verses with an elaborate ornamental border. Measures 11 x 22 cm (4.25 x 8.75"). Trimmed. Minor foxing, short closed tear to the edge, a couple of tiny holes. Very good.

"A Child of Misfortune, I'm Driven from Home" [Broadside]. [Ballads]. San Francisco Minstrels. [Hays, William Shakespeare (1837-1907), Composer]. Driven From Home. As Sung by D.S. Wambold, At the San Francisco Minstrels. New York: H. De Marsan, Publisher, [c.1870]. 10" x 6-1/4" (25.7 x 16.2 cm) broadside, three stanzas of verse in single column below headline, text surrounded by ornate woodcut border. Moderate toning, light foxing, minor edgewear, horizontal fold lines with minor creasing along them. Good. $100. * Along with Charles Backus [1831-1883] and Billy Birch [1831-1897], David S. Wambold [1836-1889] was a member of the San Francisco Minstrels, a performance group founded in San Francisco in the mid-1860s. The group, which sought to lampoon the "elitist" artistic tastes of San Francisco society, went onto great national success and were favorites of Mark Twain. As the name suggests, they performed in blackface and specialized in blackface minstrelsy, but as our broadside indicates, not all of their content was related to African American culture and some performances were more general or even took shots at white society. OCLC locates 1 copy of this edition (Middle Tennessee State University). This edition not in Wolf, American Song Sheets. …

Broadside. Circa 1860s. No publisher. Eight verses with chorus with a simple ornamental border. Measures approximately 12 x 19 cm (4.5 x 7.5"). Faint pencil markings on the top edge, tiny spot to the left of the last verse. Near fine.

A Trio of Broadside Ballads [Broadside]. [Ballads]. [Great Britain]. Death of the Fox/I Saw Her at the Fancy Fair/The Thorn. [England, S.n., c.1840]. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2" triple-text broadside in two columns, backed onto 10-1/2" x 7-1/2" sheet, verse texts, each below headline, woodcut image of a fox hunter on horseback at head of left-hand column, woodcut image of three ladies in a parlor at head of right-hand column. Light browning, heavier browning to edges of upper and lower margins. $350. * This broadside has three ballad texts. The Death of the Fox describes a fox-hunt from the fox's point of view. A man is lovestruck at the sight of a "dear girl" in I Saw Her at the Fancy Fair. In The Thorn, a man, about to propose, vows to be true to his intended. He would never, he promises, stick her bosom with a thorn. No copies listed on Library Hub. OCLC locates a copy at UCLA. We located another copy at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Roud Folk Song Index 358, V12373, 13885.…