Books withdrawn from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library for sale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.
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Withdrawn library book.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
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Withdrawn library book.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
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Withdrawn library book.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
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Withdrawn library book.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: 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Withdrawn library stock.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
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Withdrawn library book.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: 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Withdrawn library book.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
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Withdrawn library book.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 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Withdrawn library books.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
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 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
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
Heritage Dances of Early America
by Ralph Page
Withdrawn library book. Paperback. In excellent condition.
Price: £5.00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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