Books withdrawn from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library for sale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.
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Withdrawn library book.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
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Withdrawn library book.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 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Withdrawn library book.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
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Withdrawn library book.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 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Withdrawn library book.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Withdrawn library book.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 SOLD
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Withdrawn library book.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Withdrawn library stock.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 SOLD
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
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, 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
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 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: 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 /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
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
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 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
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 Collection, and Fallibroome Garden
Bernard Bentley
Edited by Nicolas M. Broadbridge
London: EFDSS, 2010
Secondhand book. Ring bound paperback. Excellent 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 SOLD
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. 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 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 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 SOLD
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: 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: 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
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, 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 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 amang the heather: The life of Belle Stewart
Sheila Stewart
Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2006.
Secondhand book. Paperback. Very good condition.
Price: £5.00
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 SOLD
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, 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
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 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: 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
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 SOLD
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 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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