Drawn from the wood : consolations in words & music for pious friends and drunken companions

Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Includes illustrations. Book... Very good. No dust jacket. Includes illustrations. Book condition: very good/near fine. Dj condition: no dj. fading to green cover boards. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. Sharp cornered. illustrated.

Description: Held, John Jr. Good. Chipped DJ. 186pp Illus "Consolations in... Held, John Jr. Good. Chipped DJ. 186pp Illus "Consolations in words & music for pious friends and drunken companions, collected from curious sources." "Musical arrangement for any degree of inebriety by Helen Ramsey." Remainder marks(? ) on top and bottom edges.

Description: Illustrated by John Held Jr. Very Good with no dust jacket. 186... Illustrated by John Held Jr. Very Good with no dust jacket. 186 pages; 8vo (9") 21cm; Green cloth, brown illustrated endpapers (one nude) plus numerous folksy b/w woodcut illustrations in text, appendix of drink recipes, about 75 old drinking and barroom songs both folklore and composed, most with tunes.; New updated edition of 'My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions', 1928. Musical arrangements 'for any degree of inebriety' by Helen Ramsey. One of the best books of drinking songs ever published. (We have two units of this title, the second is G only, no illustrated endpapers); Cloth tanned on spine and around edges. A few pages have faint thumb smudges. Cloth worn at ends of spine. Binding tight and square. Scarce.; Wood block print.

Description: Very Good- jacket. First Edition. Very Good in very good-dust... Very Good- jacket. First Edition. Very Good in very good-dust jacket; dust jacket has a few closed tears, spine slightly tanned, dj has a some tiny chips along foredge, book clean with no markings to text, binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Description: First edition. A modest stain on the rear board else a very good... First edition. A modest stain on the rear board else a very good copy in near fine dustwrapper except for a corresponding light stain. This copy with a nice, Held-illustrated brochure for another volume of this series laid in. An attractive copy, which despite a few flaws, is in better than usual condition.