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Stephen C. Foster. My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night. Foster's plantation melodies No. 20 as Sung by Christy's Minstrel...
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Stephen C. Foster. My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night. Foster's plantation melodies No. 20 as Sung by Christy's Minstrels... Written & Composed by Stephen C. Foster. New York: Firth, Pond & Co., [copyright 1853].5 pages, folio, 13 x 10 inches. Engraved cover and music. Disbound. Housed in a morocco-backed folding case.
FIRST EDITION OF FOSTER'S POPULAR ANTI-SLAVERY BALLAD, FIRST STATE, with title on page 2 in two lines, first line curved, and platemark "1892." Foster originally intended the title of this ballad to be "Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night," influenced at the time by the numerous songs inspired by the recent Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). See Howard, Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour (1934), pp. 277-286.
Condition: Some pale foxing and offsetting; remnants of guard and binding along left margin; sheet music seller's stamp "W. Swan" at foot of cover. Final leaf detached but present.
References: Dichter & Shapiro, p. 93-94; Fuld 105; Whittlesey & Sonneck, Foster, p. 35.
Provenance: Sarah E. Gast (faint signature on upper margin of cover); purchased from Howard S. Mott, Inc., Sheffield, Mass. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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