Folk music books at nearby store...

Subject: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 03:30 PM

Okay, here's the deal. I went to the Tacoma Book Center in nearby Tacoma, WA, looking for books, and they have just a HUMONGOUS music section. We're talking thousands of books with dots. Not all of them are folk, of course, but I jotted down some data on some books I thought maybe somebody here would want.

I can pick these up for you if you will pay the cost plus tax, postage and packing, and a 10% finder's fee.

All prices in US dollars.

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Folk Songs of the Catskills. Cazden, Haufrecht, and Studer. HC. 1982. 650pp. 2 copies. $37.50.

Lomax's Folk Songs of North America. HC. 2 copies. $18.75 and $15.00.

Southern Folk Ballads, Volume 2. PB. 224pp. 3 copies. $5.00.

Honey in the Rock: Religious Folk Songs from Sumter County, Alabama. (Words only, with histories.) Library Binding. 176pp. 4 copies. $15.00.

Heritage Book of Ballads. HC. (words only) 1967. 215pp. $10.00.

Negro Folk Music, USA. Courlander. PB. 1963/1991. 324pp. $6.00.

Grossman's Contemporary Ragtime Guitar. Oak Books. PB. $6.50.

Early American Folk Hymns. Mel Bay. PB. 1986. 2 copies. $8.75.

Pastures of Pleasure. Woody Guthrie. HCDJ. (this is biography not dots) Many, many copies. $15.00.

Your Book of English Country Dancing. LB. 64pp. 1980. $6.50.

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If you're interested, email me and we'll make arrangements for payment. [e-mail].

Alex

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 03:33 PM

Also if there's anything you'd like me to look for there, let me know! Same deal applies, cost-wise.

Alex

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 03:34 PM

Is the 10% finders fee going to Mudcat?????

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 03:37 PM

No it's going to pay my gas and time doing this. If you'd like to add another %10 for mudcat, by all means do so and I'll pass it on.

Alex

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 03:37 PM

Jerry Silverman Folk, volume TWO. And please whoever gets those hymns, have a scanner!

~S~

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 03:43 PM

They had no copies of Silverman's encyclopedia. I have it at home, though; if there's any particular song(s) you want from it (within reason) I'd be happy to scan 'em for you!

Alex

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Apr 01 - 04:10 PM

Hey Alex. Let me see if I really have ONE or TWO. Then, could you scan me the table of contents? In fact Joe Offer has an image-to-text scanner, maybe he could help create a postable TOC for both volumes.

~S~

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: Gypsy
Date: 20 Apr 01 - 11:25 AM

Is the Lomax volumn one and two, or hardcover, and paperback? As i recall,tis a two volumn set.

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Apr 01 - 11:45 AM

It's just one volume, Folk Songs of North America. I have that in my personal library and it's just one volume. I've never seen it in 2 volumes, but I'm new to this so I'm not saying you're wrong. Maybe it comes in 2 volumes in paperback? Anyway it's HC (hard cover) as I pointed out.

Alex

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 20 Apr 01 - 11:57 AM

I got a book via www.bookfinder.com from Tacoma. I once found a scrap book at a used book store in Bremerton, WA, that someone had filled with songs (with music) that had been cut out of a Canadian newspaper c 1905-15 ("Mother my I go out to swim" on my website is one of them).

Anything good is hard to find in the Northeast US, but there's less interest elsewhere except in a few big cities. I've gotten several very good books that were discarded from midwest libraries because no one ever checked them out. [I've also gotten some real Scots classics that were discarded by Scots libraries.]

There was a great store for such run by an old woman about a mile north of the Ohio State Univ. campus, right on High St. Rarer is when a whole library goes defunt, and a book dealer buys the whole lot in a certain area at trivial cost (like folk songs and music)

Another good source for pretty new books is used book stores near big college campuses. Copies for review are sent to professors, who often throw them out, and the local book dealers grab them up. I've got some of those, too.

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Apr 01 - 02:28 PM

I just thought maybe somebody here on Mudcat might be looking for one of these books. If not, I can live with it. If so, I wanted to help unite book to booklover.

alex

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 01 - 01:11 AM

No finder's fee here Tacoma Book Center

Subject: RE: Folk music books at nearby store...
From: mousethief
Date: 21 Apr 01 - 01:40 AM

Hmmm. I use that form and search for "folk music" and "folk songs" and get.... NOTHING.

Yes it's well worth the fee.