Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1941. Fourth Printing. Octavo in with light brown cloth boards, blue and red stamping; 397 pages: illustrations; 23 cm Near fine, with edgewear and minor bumping to corners; two pencil marks in table of contents, else pages are clean and binding tight. Hardcover.
A thorough and well-illustrated handbook and history of dances and their social and literary qualities. Survey of square dancing: Dances, Calls, movement diagrams and pictures, music. Appendix: Cowboy dance tunes arranged by Frederick Knorr. "I have had many letters from many writers and students about the dances, and a book might be written for them alone. But it would lose its flavor. The dances would be like dead ants preserved in the amber of the past. We want them stingingly alive and danceable. We want them as real as the varmints the cowboys sang about!" --Preface.
