Songbooks for sale

Subject: Song books for sale - values??
From: Hrothgar
Date: 15 May 05 - 06:27 AM

Kathy Arthur is selling the late Stan Arthur's collection of folk music books. Many of them are fairly run-of-the-mill, but there are some of special interest or rarity for which we want to establish realistic values.

We don't want to go to the trouble of registering with eBay/Paypal etc. We have made a few enquiries through Amazon and a couple of other sites to try to find market prices.

Does anybody want to suggest values for the following:

Australian:

Folk Songs of Australia; John Meredith, Hugh Anderson; hardcover, no DJ, Ure Smith 1968 reprint.

Folk Songs of Australia Volume 2; John Meredith, Roger Covell, Patricia Brown; paperback; NSW Uni Press 1987.

Farewell to Old England; Hugh Anderson; hardcover, with DJ; Rigby 1964.

Colonial Ballads; Hugh Anderson; hardcover, with DJ; Cheshire 1962 reprint.

Goldrush Songster; Hugh Anderson; softcover; Rams Skull Press, undated.

Charles Thatcher's Gold Diggers' Songbook; Hugh Anderson (ed); softcover; Red Rooster 1980.

The Songs of Henry Lawson; Chris Kempster (compiler); softcover; Viking O'Neil 1989.

Reedy River; Dick Diamond; softcover; Australian Theatre Workshop/Heinemann 1970.

Great Australian Folk Songs; John Lahey; softcover; Hill of Content 1965.

The Queensland Centenary Pocket Songbook; collected by the Federation of Bush Music Groups; Edwards & Shaw 1959.

Singabout Songster No 1; Jihn Meredith, Alan Scott, Hugh Bolton (eds); softcover; Bush Music Club 1968.

Thatcher's Colonial Minstrel; Charles Thatcher; Cole's Book Arcade; hardcover facsimile edition 1964.


Non-Australian;

New Zealand Folksongs - Songs of a Young Country; Neil Colquhoun (ed); softcover; Reed, 2nd edition 1972.

The Great New Zealand Songbook; Les Cleveland (ed); softcover; Godwit 1991.

Irish Street Ballads; Colm O'Lochlann (ed); hardcover, with DJ; Three Candles reprint 1967; inscribed by Liam Clancy.

More Irish Street Ballads; Colm O'Lochlann (ed); hardcover, no DJ; Three Candles 2nd impression 1968; inscribed by Tommy Makem.

Allan's Tyneside Songs; Thomas Allan; foreword by David Harker; hardcover, with DJ; Frank Graham; 7th edition, 1972.

Rhymes of Northern Bards; John Bell (ed); hardcover, with DJ; Frank Graham orig 1812, imited ed (50copies) 1971.

Songs of Northumbria; Denis Weatherley (ed); softcover; Frank Graham 1973.

Album of Tyneside Song, Vols 1 - 4; C E Catheside-Warren (ed); softcover; Windows 1912 - 1929.

The Wanton Seed; Frank Purslow (ed); softcover; EFDSS 1968.

Marrow Bones; Frank Purslow (ed); softcover; EFDSS 1965.

Folk Songs & Ballads of Lancashire; Harry & Lesley Boardman (eds); softcover; Oak 1973.

Canow Kernow - Songs and Dances from Cornwall; Inglis Gundry (ed); Soundpost Publications 1966.

Scots Minstrelsie; John Grieg (ed); hardcover, no DJ, complete but in poor condition; Jack 1893.

The Book of British Ballads; title page missing; Excelsior series; hardcover, poor condition; Routledge.

Folksongs of Britain & Ireland; Peter Kennedy (ed); hardcover, with DJ; Cassell 1975.

Shanties fron the Seven Seas; Stan Hugill (coll); hardcover, with DJ; Routledge 2nd imp 1966.

Voices from the Mountains - Life and Struggle in the Appalachian South; Guy and Candie Carawan (coll); Alfred A Knopf 1975.

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: rumanci
Date: 15 May 05 - 06:34 AM

I would think folkiedave would be a good contact by pm for some professional input.
The Hugill book is out of print now and I would guess many of the others are too - and there's a couple in your list I'd love, personally, to get my mitts on !   *g*
Good luck - keep us posted on final pricing decisions.
rum

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 15 May 05 - 08:09 AM

The site I use for looking for books is abebooks
There are a couple of books there I would like myself when you come up with prices, please let me know.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: MARINER
Date: 15 May 05 - 10:12 AM

Hugill's book is not out of print. It is still published and sold by the Mystic Seaport organisation. I bought a copy there last year.

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 15 May 05 - 10:23 AM

I would be interested in a few of these please.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: rumanci
Date: 15 May 05 - 10:28 AM

Thanks Mariner
It may be nit-picking of the semantics involved BUT I didn't actually mean to imply the Hugill book was unavailable to buy now in paperback form but unfortunately, there seems to be a definite NO for a future re-print.
rum

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 May 05 - 12:53 PM

I'd be interested, too - particularly The Wanton Seed (Frank Purslow), More Irish Street Ballads (Colm O'Lochlann), Folk Songs & Ballads of Lancashire.

Heck, I'd take them all if the price were right....

That's a nice assortment of books, and there are very few that I have already.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: open mike
Date: 15 May 05 - 01:17 PM

i second the recommendation for abe books..
(Advanced Book Exchange)
you can finid what the going rate is for
books there...the site is where many thousands
of book dealers...8-10,000 i believe list most
if not all of their books for sale, so you often
get a good comparison of values, prices, condition,
etc.
good luck...
it must be a sad chore to sell these books from a
loved one...i wish her the best success.

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: ejsant
Date: 15 May 05 - 01:41 PM

I would be interested in these two:

Irish Street Ballads; Colm O'Lochlann (ed); hardcover, with DJ; Three Candles reprint 1967; inscribed by Liam Clancy.

More Irish Street Ballads; Colm O'Lochlann (ed); hardcover, no DJ; Three Candles 2nd impression 1968; inscribed by Tommy Makem

Peace,
Ed

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Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: Severn
Date: 15 May 05 - 01:47 PM

I might be interested in the two tyneside collections.

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 15 May 05 - 02:20 PM

You'll have no trouble selling the O Lochlainn books (whether they're worth more, or less, because of the signatures is moot, perhaps), and most of the "Non Australian" list is well worth having; I can't speak for the Australian selection. Price, as you know, is largely down to condition and can vary widely. Bear in mind also that most dealers will have paid less than half the price they are asking, so you can afford to undercut if you wish.

Certainly worth asking Dave Eyre for advice, as "rumanci" suggested. You can contact him via his website at http://www.collectorsfolk.co.uk/.

It's very difficult to suggest sensible prices without knowing more precisely what the condition of each book is; what you'll mostly get here is people trying to bag them (I admit to being in the market for several myself). Registering with ebay isn't as daunting as it looks, and using PayPal makes accepting payments from other countries much simpler.

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: GUEST,Maggie Holland
Date: 15 May 05 - 03:04 PM

People reading this thread might be interested to know that there's a bookseller in south Edinburgh who is currently cataloguing and gradually selling the private book collection of the late Dr Hamish Henderson (School of Scottish studies, poet, songwriter....)

I went round to have a look when it was still largely uncatalogued - an eclectic mix of song books, novels, poetry and political pamphlets. Hamish tended to write his name in the flyleaf of most of his books.

They have a website at http://www.scottish-books-photos.co.uk/
and can be emailed at [e-mail] for electronic copies of the book lists.

Best wishes

Maggie

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: Folkiedave
Date: 15 May 05 - 03:27 PM

Thanks for those who recommended me. I have pm'd the originator of the thread.

Best regards,

Dave Eyre

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 15 May 05 - 05:03 PM

I use a lot. Might give you values on sites other than ABE (which I also use frequently). for checking various dealers' asking prices of used books.

Subject: RE: Song books for sale
From: Anglo
Date: 15 May 05 - 05:20 PM

I would put up a fight for hardcover copies of the O'Lochlainn, as a pair.

If you can't stand the thought of eBay, there's always the Mudcat auction... though you'd probably do better on eBay.