Our Want List
We
need your help. Located over a hundred miles from a city of
100,000
or more, we sometimes go weeks without seeing a bookperson,
let alone
a book scout, quoter or fellow dealer. Categories listed
below are
not lock-outs of one another. An interest in catalogs
doesn't mean
that the interest applies only to states we list. Likewise,
if you
have material about one of our states, please quote it,
even if we
didn't mention it in the subject guides.
Call us at 276-686-5813 or email us at bookworm@naxs.com.
STATES: West Virginia, Virginia, South
Carolina,
Tennessee, Louisiana, Kentucky,
Deleware, Texas and Washington, D.C., before 1900.
APPALACHIAN: including the mountainous
regions
of Georgia, and southern states above; authors like,
Harriett Arnow,
Wilma Dykeman, Davis Grubb, and works by ministers and
travelers
in this area also.
PHOTOGRAPHS: of places or people or
buildings
or action or trains or motion especially in groups. MUST
BE IDENTIFIED.
CIVIL WAR: Histories of battles,
brigades, regiments,
companies, platoons, - first person narratives, books
printed in
the south during the "War".
TRADE CATALOGS: These are brochures,
pamphlets,
yea, even hard bound books issued by manufacturers,
wholesalers,
jobbers, and retail stores about everything from
electrified trusses
to windmills. Our cut-off date is about 1926. Please watch
to see
that all pages are present. Attractive categories include:
Fireworks, steam engines that chug around by themselves,
toys,
explosives, builder supplies, hardware, buggies, any type
of horsedrawn
vehicle, iron fence, grave stones, shoes, optical catalog
on any
topic (coal mining, for instance, might have miner's
lamps, railroads,)
printing type, devices. In short, anyone's business is our
business.
This interest expands to files of correspondence, plans
for structures
or machines, etc.
SHAPED NOTE SONG OR HYMN BOOKS: The
notes must
NOT be round notes. Many of these books are oblong, longer
than
they are high. Authors include Davisson, Carden, and
others. Dates
from 1780 to 1900.
Four-Shape Shape-Note Tunebooks wanted:
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A Small Collection of Sacred Music, Chiefly Taken
From the Kentucky Harmony & Supplement, 1825
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American or Union Harmonist; Or a
Choice Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Athems, 1831
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Kentucky Harmony Or a Choice
Collection of Psalm Tunes Hymns and Anthems; in Three Parts, 1816
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The Southern and Western Pocket
Harmonist, Intended as an Appendix to The Southern Harmony, 1846
(c.1845)
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The Virginia Sacred Minstrel,
Containing a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, 1817
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United States Harmony, Containing a
Plain and Easy Introduction,1829
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Armstrong, John
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Pittsburgh Selection of Psalm Tunes
or Ancient Church Music Revived, 1816
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Ball, Eli
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The Manuel of the Sacred Choir,
1849
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Boyd, James M.
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The Virginia Sacred Musical
Repository, 1818
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Caldwell , William
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Union Harmony: or Family Musician, Being a Choice
Selection of Tunes,1837 (c. 1834)
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Carden, Allen D.
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The Missouri Harmony; Or a Choice
Collection of Psalm Tunes, 1820 (pre 1840 only)
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Carden, Allen D.
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The Western Harmony: Or, The
Learner's Task Made Easy, 1824
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Carrell (or Carroll), James P.
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Clayton, David L.
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The Virginia Harmony, A New and
Choice Selection of Psalm & Hymn Tunes, 1831
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Cole, John
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Union Harmony; Or, Music Made Easy,
1829
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Davisson, Ananias
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Introduction to Sacred Music
Extracted from the Kentucky Harmony, 1821
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Funk, Joseph
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A Compilation of Genuine Church
Music, 1832
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Gordon, A.M.S. & T.W. Haynes
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Hayden, Amos Sutton
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Introduction to Sacred Music;
Comprising the Necessary Rudiments, 1835
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Hendrickson, George
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The Union Harmony or A Choice
Collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Anthems, 1848
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Hood, George
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The Southern Church Methodist: A
Collection of Sacred Music, 1846
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Jackson, John B.
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The Knoxville Harmony of Music Made
Easy, 1838
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Johnson, Alexander
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Johnson's Tennessee Harmony, 1818
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Jones, L.J.
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Lewis, Freeman
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The Beauties of Harmony, Containing
the Rudiments of Music, 1814 (c. 1813)
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M'Cormick, John
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Rhinehart, William R.
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The American Church Harp; Containing
a Choice Selection of Hymns and Tunes, 1848
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Steffey, John W.
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The Valley Harmonist, Containing a
Collection of Tunes from the Most Approved Authors, 1836
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Walker, William
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The Southern Harmony, and Music
Companion: Containing a Choice Collection, 1835
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Willis, Robert
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Lexington Cabinet and Repository of
Sacred Music, 1832 (1831?)
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TECHNICAL: How to do it, machines,
trades, etc.
Hats, saddles, gyroscopes, coffins, cheese, dyes, etc.
Books on
small topics-shoes, metal boats, mills, etc. Cut-off date
about
1910. IMPRINTS: anything printed by NEALE of
New York
and or Washington. Anything printed by Henkel of New
Market, Virginia.
Anything printed in any of our states before 1865.
Pennsylvania German Folklore Society
Sheet Music before 1920 (only): bound volumes (several
pieces bound
in one big book)
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