Cowboy Dances: A Collection of Cowboy Square Dances

417 pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Index. Illustrations throughout, with an appendix of cowboy dance tunes arranged by Frederick Knorr, and a foreward by Sherwood Anderson. Gray cloth with red & blue imprint. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed, edges and corners bumped, with slight tear at top front. Fine Condition. Lloyd Shaw has collected and taught these dances for years and with his Cheyenne Mountain Dancers has demonstrated them from coast to coast. He has presented in this volume some seventy-five dances, with complete calls and explanations, each illustrated." According to the jacket copy, there was a phonograph record (available through Decca record dealers) to accompany the dances in this book: Cowboy Dances "called by Lloyd Shaw with the 'Duel in the Sun' square dance orchestra". It is listed as Decca Album No. A521. Toward the back of the book is a section listing other phonograph recordings, by various artists. The Caxton Printers 1949. $95.