Inscribed to the Aunt Who Introduced Baez to Folk Music
and then I wrote....
Publication: New York: The Big 3 Music Corporation, 1979. First Edition.
Notes: A significant association copy of this collection of words and lyrics to the songs written by Joan Baez in the 1960s and 1970s. This copy is inscribed to her "Tia" (aunt, in Spanish), Pauline Bridge Henderson, who introduced Baez to folk music and changed her life and American music with it.
The events are described in first chapter of of David Hajdu's book Positively 4th Street: "Late in the spring of 1954, when Joan and Mimi were thirteen and nine, Tia and [her partner] Rugger took them to a concert in the gym of Palo Alto High School. It was an informal program of songs and talk to raise funds for the California Democratic Party, featuring Pete Seeger.... Tia said, 'I thought if I still had some influence on those girls, they should hear something they weren't going to hear on the radio.' Indeed, Seeger could not be found on any of the country's commercial stations, nor on records from the major labels, in concert halls, or in nightclubs; he had been blacklisted in 1952 for his association with Communism.... 'I don't remember the actual concert anymore,' Joan would say. 'All I know is that was a major moment for me.'"
352 pages. 9 by 11-3-4 inches. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs and Baez's drawings.
Edition + Condition: First edition (no indication of later printings; $14.95 price on the back cover). A very good copy, worn at the corners, with small spots of staining to the page edges. This copy is inscribed, "Love to Tia, she's my aunt. She also works for me at the office—my personal secretary... I often drive her crazy. But I love her—Love, Joanie." Spectacular.
Item No: #364315
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