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Secondhand Books Sale

Tuesday 15th of April 2025

Books withdrawn from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library for sale

The Library are selling some duplicate stock from the collection in order to make space for new books.

Some are available to purchase online here, others are available in the Library on the Sale trolley.

More books added regularly.

12 manx songs

Twelve Manx Folk Songs, Set 1: with Manx Gaelic and English Words

Translated by Mona Douglas, arranged with pianoforte accompaniment by Arnold Foster

London: Stainer & Bell, 1928.

Withdrawn library book. Soft cover. Very good condition.

Price: £10.00

80 English folk songs

Eighty English folk songs from the Southern Appalachians

Collected by Cecil J. Sharp and Maud Karpeles


Edited by Maud Karpeles. Specimen piano accompaniments by Benjamin Britten, chord symbols by Pat Shaw.

London: Faber and Faber, 1968.

Withdrawn library book. Paperback. Very good condition.

Price: £10.00

A book of British song

A Book of British Song for Home and School

Edited and arranged with full accompaniments by Cecil J. Sharp.

London: John Murray, 1902.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £25.00 SOLD

Slang Jargon

A dictionary of slang, jargon and cant, volumes I and II: Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, Pidgin English, Tinkers' jargon and other irregular phraseology

Compiled and edited by Albert Barrere and Charles G. Leland.

Printed for subscribers only at The Ballantyne Press, 1889-1890.

No. 500 of a limited run of 675 copies.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Some light damage to spine and corners. In otherwise good condition. Marbled end papers.

Price: £100.00

A selection of folk songs

A selection of collected folk-songs, vol. 1

Arranged by Cecil J. Sharp and R. Vaughan Williams

London: Novello and Company, 1936.

Withdrawn library book. Soft cover. One small tear to the front cover but in otherwise very good condition.

Price: £8.00

Song for every season

A Song for Every Season: A Hundred Years of a Sussex Farming Family

Bob Copper

London: Heinemann, 1971.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £10.00 SOLD

Treasury of American Song

A Treasury of American Song

By Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister

New York: Howell, Soskin & Co., 1940.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £15.00

Ancient Danish Ballads

Ancient Danish Ballads: Volumes I-III

Translated from the originals by R.C. Alexander Prior

London: Williams and Norgate, 1860

Withdrawn library stock. Hardback. All three volumes in good condition with only minimal wear.

Price: £50.00 SOLD

Baring Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould: Squarson, writer and folklorist 1834-1924.

by Bickford H.C. Dickinson

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £10.00

Canadas story in song

Canada's Story in Song

By Edith Fowke and Alan Mills, piano accompaniments by Helmut Blume

Toronton: W.J. Gage, 1965.

Withdrawn Library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £15.00

Come Day Go Day

Come day, go day, God send Sunday: The songs and life story, told in his own words, of John Maguire, traditional singer and farmer from Co. Fermanagh

Collated by Robin Morton

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. In very good condition.

Price: £10.00

Country dance tunes

Country Dance Tunes: Sets I-XI

Collected and arranged by Cecil Sharp

London: Novello, 1909.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Loose cover on the spine, but otherwise in good condition.

Price: £40.00

Country Dance tunes viii

Country Dance Tunes from The English Dancing Master: Sets VII-XI

Arranged by Cecil J. Sharp

London: Novello, 1916.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. In very good condition. Includes a beautifully handwritten index.

Price: £15.00

Dances of England

Dances of England and France 1450-1600

with their music and authentic manner of performance

By Mabel Dolmetsch

New York: Da Capo, 1976

Withdrawn library book. Hardback (reinforced copy of the paperback).

Price: £10.00

English Custom and Usage

English custom and usage: Illustrated from prints and photographs

By Christina Hole

London: B.T. Batsford, 1942.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Cover partly faded but in otherwise good condition.

Price: £10.00

The English Dancing Master

The English Dancing Master /John Playford

Or plaine and easie rules for the dancing of country dances, with the tune to each dance

Facsimile of the 1651 edition. Withdrawn library book. Paperback. Cover loose, some small ink stains, but in otherwise good condition.

Price: £5.00

 English folk song and dance

English Folk-Song and Dance

Frank Kidson and Mary Neal

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915.

Withdrawn library book. Hardcover. Faded spine but otherwise in good condition.

Price: £15.00

English Folk Songs centenary

English Folk Songs

Collected and arranged with pianoforte accompaniment by Cecil J. Sharp

Centenary Edition.

London: Novello, 1959.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Minor wear to the dust jacket but in otherwise very good condition. 1965 reprint.

Price: £20.00

English folk songs from the Southern Appalachians

English Folk Song from the Southern Appalachians (Volumes I and II)

Collected by Cecil J. Sharp, edited by Maud Karpeles

'Comprising two hundred and seventy-three songs and ballads with nine hundred and sixty-eight tunes, including thirty-nine tunes contributed by Olive Dame Campbell'.

London: Oxford University Press, 1932.

Withdrawn library books. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £40.00 SOLD

 Sea Songs

Everyman's Book of Sea Songs

Richard Baker and Antony Miall

London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1982.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £15.00

The Fallibroome

The Fallibroome Collection, and Fallibroome Garden

Bernard Bentley

Edited by Nicolas M. Broadbridge

London: EFDSS, 2010

Secondhand book. Ring bound paperback. Excellent condition.

Price: £15.00

Fellowship of song

The Fellowship of Song: Popular Singing Traditions in East Suffolk

Ginette Dunn

London: Croom Helm, 1980.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £20.00 SOLD

Folk Songs from Somerset 

Folk Songs from Somerset / Cecil J. Sharp and Charles L. Marson

Gathered and edited with pianoforte accompaniment

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1904.

Withdrawn library book. Leather covers, a small amount of wear at the top and bottom of the spine. Marbled end papers, one of which has been cut diagonally.

Price: £20.00 SOLD

The Gaelic songster

The Gaelic Songster. An T-oranaiche.

No Co-Thional Taghte do Orain Ur Agus Shean, A'Chuid Mhor Dhiubh Nach Robh Riamh Roimhe Ann An Clo, Le Gilleasbuig Mac-Na-Ceardadh.

Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1879.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Binding in good condition, apart from stitching inside the back cover which is loose, resulting in some slightly loose pages. Some browning of pages, but otherwise in good condition.

Price: £50.00

Grey Funnellines

Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song and Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970.

Cyril Tawney

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £5.00

Heritage dances

Heritage Dances of Early America

by Ralph Page

Withdrawn library book. Paperback. In excellent condition.

Price: £5.00

Irish Country Songs

Irish Country Songs: First Volume

Edited, arranged, and for the most part collected by Herbert Hughes'.

London: Boosey & Co., 1909.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Some damage to top of spine, worn corners, but generally good condition.

Price: £15.00

Irish melodies

Irish Melodies

by Thomas Moore

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Spine slightly worn but otherwise in very good condition.

Price: £30.00 SOLD

Irish Street Ballads

Irish Street Ballads

Collected and annotated by Colm O Lochlainn and adorned with woodcuts from the original broadsheets.

Dublin: Three Candles, 1967.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Some damage to spine but in otherwise good condition.

Price: £15.00

The Irish Songbook

The Irish Songbook: Collected, adapted, written and sung by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem

Arranged for piano and guitar by Robert DeCormier, compiled and edited by Joy Graeme, with a foreword by Pete Hamill.

New York: Wise Publications, 1969.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £15.00

Melody and the lyric

Melody and the Lyric: From Chaucer to the Cavaliers

by John Murray Gibbon

London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1930.

'With 200 musical illustrations'. Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £10.00

Northern Garlands

Northern Garlands

Edited by the late Joseph Ritson

  • The Bishopric Garland or Durham Mistral
  • The Yorkshire Garland
  • The Northumberland Garland or Newcastle Nightingale
  • The North Country Chorister

London: R. Triphook, 1810.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Front cover partially loose, but in otherwise good condition.

Price: £30.00

Notes on the Folklore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders

Notes on the Folklore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders, by William Henderson

With an appendix on household stories by S. Baring-Gould.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1866

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Some wear to spine and corners of binding.

Price: £15.00

Poems of Rural Life

Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect

With a dissertation and glossary by William Barnes
Second edition.

London: John Russell Smith, 1848

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Ink stains on the first few pages but otherwise in very good condition.

Price: £10.00

Queen amung the heather

Queen amang the heather: The life of Belle Stewart

Sheila Stewart

Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2006.

Secondhand book. Paperback. Very good condition.

Price: £5.00

Ragged London

Ragged London in 1861 (Everyman History)

John Hollingshead

Introduction and notes by Anthony S. Wohl.

London and Melbourne: Dent, 1986.

Withdrawn library book. Paperback. Very good condition.

Price: £5.00 SOLD

Rhymes of Robin Hood

Rymes of Robyn Hood: An Introduction to the English Outlaw

R.B. Dobson and J. Taylor

Book Club Associates, 1976.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £8.00

Pat Shaw

Pat Shaw, 1917-1977

His life through memories of his friends, his music, dances and songs.

Edited by Brenda Godrich

Nicolas Broadbridge, 2010.

Withdrawn library book. Paperback. Very good condition.

Price: £10.00

Song Histories

Song Histories

By Robert Ford

Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, 1900.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Some tape on the spine and a loose page at the front, but in otherwise good condition.

Price: £10.00

Sword Dances

The sword dances of Northern England: Songs and dance airs. Book 1.

Arranged by Cecil J. Sharp

London: Novello, 1911.

Secondhand book. Hardback. Some wear to the cover but in generally good condition.

Price: £10.00

The Idiom of the people

The Idiom of the People: English Traditional Verse

Edited with an introduction and notes from the manuscripts of Cecil J. Sharp

London: Heinemann, 1958.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Very good condition.

Price: £10.00

The Oxford Book of Ballads

The Oxford Book of Ballads

Chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. In excellent condition apart from a small amount of wear at the top and bottom of the spine.

Price: £5.00

Traditional tunes of the Child ballads II

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads: Volume II, Ballads 54-113

With their texts, according to the extant records of Great Britain and America by Bertrand Harris Bronson


Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Cover slightly loose on spine but in otherwise very good condition.

Price: £30.00 SOLD

Traditional tunes of the Child Ballads III

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads: Volume III, Ballads 114-243

With their texts, according to the extant records of Great Britain and America by Bertrand Harris Bronson.

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Withdrawn library book. Hardback. Cover coming away from the spine slightly, but otherwise in very good condition.

Price: £30.00 SOLD

Vagabond songs 

Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland with Many Old and Familiar Melodies

Edited, with notes, by Robert Field

Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1904.

Withdrawn library book. 'New and improved edition'. Hardback. Good condition.

Price: £10.00 SOLD

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