Title: Allan's Lone Star Ballads. A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs, Made During Confederate Times Author: Allan, Francis D. Place: Galveston, Texas Publisher: J.D. Sawyer Date: 1874 Description: 222, [2] pp. 14x10 cm (5½x4") (18mo) original green cloth with gilt stamped cover. "An invaluable collection of some 200 patriotic and sentimental songs." Eberstadt. Many were penned by Confederate veterans, particularly Texans. Writing from Galveston in November 1874, Allan says the book consists mostly of "original patriotic songs, evidently the offspring of the stirring events by which their writers were surrounded, and many of which are printed now for the first time." Representative examples: 'Hood's Texas Brigade,' 'Texas and Virginia,' 'Bombardment and Battles of Galveston.' Pages 202-222 consist of advertisements by Galveston merchants; an index to advertisers is at page [201]. Scarce. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to cloth with a bit of fraying at spine ends; rear hinge cracked, offsetting to endpapers, occasional period pencil notations and a later pencil inscription on front pastedown; very good. Item number: 282796
Title: Allan's Lone Star Ballads. A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs, Made During Confederate Times Author: Allan, Francis D. Place: Galveston, Texas Publisher: J.D. Sawyer Date: 1874 Description: 222, [2] pp. 14x10 cm (5½x4") (18mo) original green cloth with gilt stamped cover. "An invaluable collection of some 200 patriotic and sentimental songs." Eberstadt. Many were penned by Confederate veterans, particularly Texans. Writing from Galveston in November 1874, Allan says the book consists mostly of "original patriotic songs, evidently the offspring of the stirring events by which their writers were surrounded, and many of which are printed now for the first time." Representative examples: 'Hood's Texas Brigade,' 'Texas and Virginia,' 'Bombardment and Battles of Galveston.' Pages 202-222 consist of advertisements by Galveston merchants; an index to advertisers is at page [201]. Scarce. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to cloth with a bit of fraying at spine ends; rear hinge cracked, offsetting to endpapers, occasional period pencil notations and a later pencil inscription on front pastedown; very good. Item number: 282796
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