Item 1: Book, The Swanee River
Sketch of Stephen C. Foster [with facsimile reproduction of Charles Copeland's 1887 illustrated edition of Swanee Ribber] by Fletcher Hodges, Jr. (Orlando: Robinson's, Inc., 1958), 52pp., illustrated.

Price: $9.95

Item 2: Book, Beautiful Dreamer
Ellen Ulken, Xlibris Publishers 2005 USA
As a child in northern Florida, Ellen Ulken used to swim in the Suwannee River, made famous by the song “Old Folks at Home”. Later, in her travels – first growing up on far-flung Army posts and then as a flight attendant – she Found the music of Stephen Foster a comforting reminder of her rural Southern roots. Beautiful Dreamer is her tribute to Foster, whose songs explore the range of human emotion –from the melancholy of “Gentle Annie” to the merriment of “Ring, Ring the Banjo!”

Price: $13.50

Item 3: Book, Masters of Music, The Life and Times Of Stephen Foster
Hardback, Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2004 by Susan Zannos. From the series, The World’s Greatest Composers, The Life and Times of Stephen Foster is biography of Stephen Foster written in 5 chapters: Playing Hooky, An Invisible Boy, Show Business, Professional Song Writer, and Sad Songs.

Price: $19.95

Item 4: Book, Doo Dah!
Paperback, Da Capo Press, 1997, by Ken Emerson
Stephen Foster (1826-1864) was America's first great songwriter and the first to earn his living solely through his music. He composed some 200 songs, including such classics as "Oh! Susanna", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair",Old Folks at Home" ("Way down upon the Swanee River"), and "Camptown Races" ("Doo-dah! Doo-dah!"). He virtually invented popular music as we recognize it to this day, yet he died at age 37, a forgotten and nearly penniless alcoholic on the Bowery. The author reveals Foster's contradictory life while disclosing how the dynamics of nineteenth-century industrialization, westward expansion, the Gold Rush, slavery, and the Civil War infused his music, and how that music influenced popular culture.

Price: $24.95

Item 5: Songbook: Songs of Stephen Foster
Composed by Stephen Foster (1826-1864). Songbook for voice, piano and guitar chords. 96 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Price: $10.95

Item 6: Songbook: Stephen Foster Songbook
Rare original piano and vocal music for 40 favorites: 'Beautiful Dreamer,' 'Camptown Races,' 'Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,' 'Oh! Susanna,' 'My Old Kentucky Home,' etc. 181 pgs.

Price: $12.95

Item 7: Songbook: Immortal Melodies
Stephen Foster. For Piano/Vocal/Chords. This edition: Piano/Vocal/Chords. 96 pages. Titles include: Old Dog Tray * Oh! Susanna * Beautiful Dreamer * Camptown Races * Laura Lee * Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair. 96 Pages.

Price: $12.95