What is said to be the "first edition" is at the Levy Collection (Click here). Note the misspelling of the name. Image of the cover is lacking.

Title: Old Dan Emmit's Original Banjo Melodies. The Original Old Dan Tucker.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Arranged for the Piano Forte by Rice. Words by Old Dan D. Emmit.
Publication: Boston: Chas. H. Keith, 67 & 69 Court St., 1843.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: I come to town de udder night, I hear de noise an saw de fight
First Line of Chorus: So get out de way! get out de way!
Performer: As performed by the Virginia Minstrels

Richard Jackson reproduces this editon, with cover (Popular Songs of Nineteenth-Century America, Dover, 1976, pp. 160-162), saying in the notes: "Though the text of 'Old Dan Tucker' was indeed written by Emmett, the melody was not his composition. Its origin is not known." (p. 278).

~Masato