The Ballad Tree: A Study of British and American Ballads, their Folklore, Verse and Music together with Sixty Traditional Ballads and their Tunes

x, 372pp, 15 black and white plates including facsimile and numerous segments of musical scores. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Top text block edge sprayed red. 8vo. Lightly rubbed and bumped spine ends, shelf number on spine, boards and corners lightly rubbed. Text block edges tanning. Lender's stamps, labels and markings on endpapers and copyright page. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket protected with Brodart-style sleeve, spine sun-faded, has moderate shelf wear, chipping to edges, small loss to corners, not price clipped.