collected frank shay (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Poor. Edgewear on covers and pages; with marking on back cover and plastic pealing from front cover; beginning of crack in binding between pages 14 & 15; previous owners's stamp on front and back endpapers. "Magnificently Illuminated by John Held Jr." This Dover edition, first published in 1961, under the title "My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions and More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions" is an unabridged republication of the text of the following works: "My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions" as orginally published by the Macaulay Company in 1927. "More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions" as originally published by The Macaulay Company in 1928. The illustrations for this edition have been selected from among those in the first editions. This edition was designed by Bernard Etter. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. John Held (illustratore). Covers lightly creased and worn at edges. Illustrated with b/w line drawings. Here is one of the most valued song books - a contagiously uninhibited collection of 132 ballads, blues, vaudeville numbers, drinking songs, cowboy songs, sea chanties, and comedy songs. Compiled in 1927 and 1928 by the eminent Greenwich Villager Frank Shay, early publisher of Edna St Vincent Millay, these songs are suitable for soloists or groups. Over a third of them are here reprinted with music. These are the great songs of the Naughty Nineties and early 20th century, as they were sung in their prime by the celebrated performers of the day. Many old favourites will be found here with their original introductions and a full complement of verses: The Band Played On, Frankie and Johnnie, The Old Gray Mare, The Face on the Bar-room Floor, etc. But there are also a good many others, equally entertaining, that you might have difficulty locating elsewhere: The Dog-Catcher's Child, The Cannibal Maiden, The Dying Hobo, and that classic of premonition, Don't Go In Them Lions' Cage Tonight, Mother. You will find such songs of pre-Beatnik Bohemia as Down in Dear Old Greenwich Village, and In Bohemia Hall. There are songs from all parts of America, England, France, Australia; refurbished editions of ancient ballads; cockney songs; songs about dope fiends, doughboys, drunkards, brakemen, boxers, burglars, sinners, sailors and the Salvation Army!

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo. 12pp. Cover illustration by Donald Corley. Stapled self-wrappers. Wraps splitting at the foot of the spine with tiny chips and tears at the edges, spine slightly toned, very good. Salvo Two. Shay opened a tiny bookshop in 1920 called "Frank Shay's Bookshop" where he not only sold, but published books. This was around the time he published this small chapbook in his *Salvo* series. In 1924 Doubleday would publish an expanded edition titled, *Iron Men and Wooden Ships: Deep Sea Chanties* that would be reprinted several times over the decades. Scarce.