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Alan
Lattimore
Registered User
(7/19/03 9:38 am)
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ISO Recommendation: Child's "Ballads"
I'm looking for recommendations on an edition of Francis James Child's "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads."
Value is slightly more important than cost, meaning in general I'm willing to pay a little more to get an edition with good essays. Completeness isn't as big a factor. For example, I wouldn't be willing to pay twice as much for a volume that has two uneceptional ballads, just to be comeplete for completeness sake.
Thanks,
Alan Lattimore
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Sharlit
Registered User
(7/19/03 9:07 pm)
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Child's Ballads. :(
The very unfortunate thing (I have discovered after seven years of digging & book collecting) about Child's Ballads is that there hasn't been an edition printed in thirty five years. Now, I once drooled over the 1904 edition comprising of all eleven volumes at an astounding $25,000, but I can't say how many volumes or how expensive the 1965 was. I suspect it was a ten volume run (same as the 1904, minus the catelogue) - I have seen most volumes running about $60 - $80US each.
Both editions (and the 1870 or whatever it was, I suspect) are valuable
for content. Obviously you will get different ballads in different
volumes, but the same ballads should be in all editions. :) In this
sense, if you are willing to drop the dollars, the 1965 is as worthwhile
as anything else.
There is a really brilliant site at www.contemplator.com/child/
which also has all of the ballads, if you want to use them rather
than own them.
Me, I have to content myself with the weekly ravishings of 12-30
local and area used bookstores, hoping to get lucky. :)
www.abebooks.com is a good central site for books in general, though.
-charlotte
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Alan
Lattimore
Registered User
(7/21/03 2:53 pm)
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Child's Ballads
Charlotte -
Thanks. Those volumes at $80 USD are out of my price range right now. I knew there was a single volume that contained most of the ballads at the expense of stripping out all of the essays. I was hoping there was some middle ground, like a two volume set with some of the more critical essays.
I guess it'll be a combination of the library and the short version.
Alan Lattimore
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Charles Vess
Unregistered User
(7/23/03 1:45 pm)
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A new edition of Child's BALLADS
Ellen Kushner turned me onto these new editions (in 5 volumes) of THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS published by Loomis House Press at $34.95 (US) per volume. They are beautiful new editions in hardcover with ALL the notes and essays. I had just acquired, through a trade of books for artwork, a 1st edition set with beautiful gold gilt stamping, HOWEVER I groaned aloud when I discovered that they, of course, did not include the vast amount of notes included in the later volumes.
This new set is jusat perfect.
Their website is: www.lomishousepress.com/
Good luck!
Charles
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NAV
Unregistered User
(7/28/03 4:50 pm)
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That's the ticket!
I was going to say that I thought I heard mention of a new printing recently. Thanks for the link, Charles - I really need to get these before they go out of print and cost hundreds of dollars like their predecessors.
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NAV
Unregistered User
(7/28/03 4:54 pm)
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and unfortunately....
...the URL doesn't work. Tried it several different ways. Any ideas?
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(7/28/03 10:19 pm)
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Re: and unfortunately....
I think the link is supposed to be:
www.loomishousepress.com/
Heidi
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Nav
Unregistered User
(7/29/03 5:22 pm)
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That did it!
Thanks Heidi! :D
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Alan
Lattimore
Registered User
(7/31/03 8:51 am)
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Re: A new edition of Child's BALLADS
Charles -
My hero! That's just what I was hoping to find. Now I have to learn to be patient waiting for vol. 3 - 5 to come out.
Best Regards,
Alan Lattimore
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