Item #5029 Allan's Lone Star Ballads: A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs, Made During Confederate Times. Francis D. Allan, compiler.
Allan's Lone Star Ballads: A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs, Made During Confederate Times
Allan's Lone Star Ballads: A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs, Made During Confederate Times
Allan's Lone Star Ballads: A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs, Made During Confederate Times
Allan's Lone Star Ballads: A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs, Made During Confederate Times

Allan's Lone Star Ballads: A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs, Made During Confederate Times

Galveston: J. D. Sawyer, 1874. First edition. 16mo, 15x11cm, [iii], iv, [5], 222, [2]pp. Advertisements. Original gilt stamped, purple cloth boards, ruled in blind. Housed in custom, two piece black cloth box, morocco spine stamped in gilt. Good condition with wear, fading, and staining to boards. Cloth brittle especially on spine where a few letters from waste paper padding can be seen. Former owner's signature, presentation inscription, and a few notes in pencil to front and rear endpapers, else clean and sound internally. Nineteenth century Galveston imprint consisting of patriotic songs penned by Confederate veterans, particularly from Texas, many of which were previously unpublished. Songs include “Hood’s Old Brigade” by Miss Mollie E. Moore, “The Texas Ranger” by Englishman William Kennedy, “Song of the Texas Ranger” by Mrs. J.D. Young to be sung to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas," and some 200 others.

This unrestored copy contains an interesting presentation from J.E. Hunter, of San Marcos who later signs as Elam, to the Alamo Society. The Alamo Literary Society was established at the opening of Southwestern University in Georgetown in 1873. The society was a direct descendent of the Alpha Literary Society of Soule University, a Methodist university in Chapel Hill, TX, which was one of the four institutions whose union became Southwestern at its charter. Item #5029

Price: $450.00