Negro Folk Songs As Sung By Lead Belly First Edition
For a first edition, first printing of Negro Folk Songs As Sung By Lead Belly by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax (Macmillan, 1936), the first point to check: Copyright page: “Copyright, 1936, by The Macmillan Company … Set up and printed. Published November, 1936.”
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How to identify this edition
These points tell this edition apart from other printings and editions of Negro Folk Songs As Sung By Lead Belly.
✓ Copyright page: “Copyright, 1936, by The Macmillan Company … Set up and printed. Published November, 1936.”
✓ Title page: “New York · The Macmillan Company · MCMXXXVI”, photographic frontispiece of Lead Belly opposite
✓ Binding: coarse ochre cloth, front board and spine lettered in red
✓ Dust jacket: orange, black-and-white photograph of Lead Belly with his guitar on the front, “John A. Lomax • Alan Lomax” at the foot
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- How do I know if my copy of Negro Folk Songs As Sung By Lead Belly is a first edition, first printing?
- ✓ Copyright page: “Copyright, 1936, by The Macmillan Company … Set up and printed. Published November, 1936.” ✓ Title page: “New York · The Macmillan Company · MCMXXXVI”, photographic frontispiece of Lead Belly opposite ✓ Binding: coarse ochre cloth, front board and spine lettered in red ✓ Dust jacket: orange, black-and-white photograph of Lead Belly with his guitar on the front, “John A. Lomax • Alan Lomax” at the… The identification points above show each one.
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