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Lomax, John A. (Editor); Phelps, William Lyon (Foreword) : Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

The Macmillan Company, New York, 1920

Original publisher's brown-orange cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. 5 1/8 "x 7 5/8." 189 pages, complete. Inscribed by the editor/author in black ink on front free endpaper: "Yours sincerely, John A. Lomax." Former owner's signature [Hugh Owens?] in blue ink also on front free endpaper. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A fine copy. Includes a foreword by William Lyon Phelps. From an introduction by John A. Lomax: "... I have included the best of the verse given me directly by the cowboys; other selections have come in through repeated recommendation of these men; others are vagrant verses from Western newspapers; and still others have been lifted from collections of Western verse written by such men as Charles Badger Clark, Jr., and Herbert H. Knibbs. ... men of today and those who are to follow, may sense, at least in some small measure, the service, the glamour, the romance of that knight-errant of the plains--the American cowboy." John A. Lomax (1867-1948) was an American teacher and musicologist who made significant contributions to the preservation of American folk music. William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) was an American author, scholar, and critic who taught the first American university course on the modern novel. Phelps also had a radio show, was a newspaper columnist, and published many books and articles.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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