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Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: Near Fine: Clean, straight, unmarked, with a little foxing on the title pages and last pages of each volume; a small waterstain at top of vol 2 title page and next few leaves. Otherwise perfect. Hardcover in brown cloth with gilt titles, 8.8", 556 pages. 256 of the pages are stuffed with double-column text, arranged encyclopedically following keywords, including some songs, descriptions of people, stories, recordings, etc/: however Cox and John Hardy-John Henry set off extensive quoted sections in single-column format, 130 pages from a WPA booklet edited by John Harrington Cox, who earlier edited the 1925 Folk Songs of the South including 35 songs with music, and Cox?s notes; the John Henry section quotes the entire 142-page study by Louis Chappell, 144 pages, including many versions of songs. then the encyclopedia resumes. . .…