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The Heritage Press, 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Boards show a few scuffs, a few small scratches on ft., light edgewear, sunned spine, bumped tips. Fine interior- light age-tonning, clean and tight text. 215 pages.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1967. Book. Illus. by Fritz Kredel. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Green 1/4 cloth, green decorated paper covered boards. Tiny surface paper nick along lower rear joint, otherwise as new/as issued. xxiv,215 pp., illus. Original slipcase shows modest shelf wear but is fully intact, VG..

New York: The Heritage Press, 1967. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Fritz Kredel. Gold-stamped green cloth spine w/ striped green bds. No names, clean text. With lightly worn matching slipcase. Traditional ballads of America, Scotland and England. With a few snippets of musical notation in the essay at back. 18000 PB shelf

New York: The Heritage Press, 1967. Hardcover. Fine. Fritz Kredel. A Fine book in a Very Good + slip-case. Complete with Sandglass. Slip 5

New York: The Heritage Press. Very Good. 1967. Hardcover. Traditional ballads, or 'stories that are sung' are gathered in this deluxe edition in slipcase. With woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Ballads selected and edited by MacEdward Leach. --- In striped green paper-covered boards backed in green cloth; gilt-stamped balladeer image and titling on spine. Slipcase covered in matching striped green paper. Sandglass flyer not present. --- A nice copy: clean and tightly bound but with prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down and mild spine sunning. Structurally sound slipcase with quite a bit of rubbing to extremities.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); xxiv, 215 pages .

NY: Heritage Press. F. (1967). Hardcover. Heritage Press edition, bound in green decorated cloth. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Prospectus (The Sandglass) laid-in loose. .

The Heritage Press, New York: (1967)., 1967 pp. xxiv, 215. Illustrated with thirty-six little woodcuts washed in yellow and brown by Freitz Kredel. Top edge blue. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number V:32. Sm. 4to. Original cloth spine over patterned paper boards. Gilt lettered and decorated spine. Original matching slip case. Hardbound. Very nice copy. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W82 0.0. Hardcover.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1967 Selected and Edited by MacEdward Leach. Illustrated with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. Striped green boards with green cloth spine, lettered in gilt. Spine faded, else a fine copy in slipcase. Minor wear and fading to slipcase. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.. Illus. by Kredel, Fritz.

U.S.A.: New York Heritage Press, 1967. Gorgeous Heritage Press edition in slipcase. Green hardcover, gilt lettering on spine, design on front and back covers, Appears unread and is in pristine GIFT QUALITY condition. First Thus. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Illustrated.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1967. Illustrated with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. Coloured title page vignette and text illustrations, music, notes, indices; impl. 8vo; patterned green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; within green card slipcase, the edges faded; The Heritage Press, New York, 1967. *With the Heritage Club newsletter, "Sandglass", describing the history of this volume, loosely inserted.

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club [printed at the Press of A. Colish], 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Kredel, Fritz. Number 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 240 pp., signed by Fritz Kredel, with LEC Monthly letter and announcement. Ballads - or, "the singing of story" - have a long history within many cultures. Part of the interest of a ballad is that it is of "unknown authorship that tells a story in a special way" - take, for example, a favourite that has been printed and illustrated by many, in many different ways - the ballad of "Frankie and Johnny"...."for he was her man, but he done her wrong" (p. 150). The Limited Editions Club has chosen sixty-nine ballads "worthy of being saved" and presents them either by land of origin or (we think more interestingly) by subject, e.g., "Murder Ballads". (n.b., above quotes from the Monthly Letter.) To our mind, the true joy of this work are the thirty-six woodcut illustrations made by Fritz Kredel (1900-1973), a German-born… Read More