EFDSS' mail order service is actually quite good nowadays, though like so many other things it needs to be developed and expanded. The Cecil Sharp selection I mentioned some months ago is to be called Still Growing: English Traditional Songs and Singers From the Cecil Sharp Collection, and will be launched at the Cecil Sharp Centenary Conference in Ilminster, Somerset, 20-22 August 2003. All things being equal, the [formerly "Penguin"] Book of English Folk Songs will be out in the Autumn.

The intention is that these books will be available through normal bookshops as well as direct from EFDSS. The saga of the "Folk Shop" is long and complicated, I think, and I certainly don't know enough of the details to comment usefully.