Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Publisher's navy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Grey dyed top edge. Light nominal toning, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. 273 pages. Clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., unknown, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 902 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations throughout, color frontispiece. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Age toning to text block edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brother, 2nd, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. B&W illustrations. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Dark blue gilt decorated front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Cloth frayed at top and bottom of spine, corners, and around edges. Front and back cover worn and soiled. Nice plates. Otherwise, a nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers Inc., 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An illustrated history of mechanical instruments from the musical box to the pianola. Slight cocking to spine. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Purple toning to top text block edge. Many fine illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, rep., September 24, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Edinburgh, UK, Canongate, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages. Softcover. Very light scuffing to covers, dented point to top of text block near spine. Old price stick on back cover. Otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. N Y, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Painting, music, literature & the theatre in the Colonies and the United States from 1763-1789. Black & white illust. 699 pages.
Hardcover. Boston, MFA Publications, 1st Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Softcover published to accompany the exhibition Dangerous Curves - Art of the Guitar, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from November 5, 2000 to February 25, 2000. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Zurich, Switzerland, Atlantis Musikbuch, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 612 pages. Hardcover. Color (frontispiece) and b/w illustrations throughout. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Bau (Building) Geschichte (Story) Spiel (Game) Padagogik (Pedagogy) Komposition (Composition).
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company, revised, enlarged edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 323 pages. Bright green cloth covers, purple laminate dust jacket, 8 pages of b&w photographs printed on glossy papers. Light rubbing to dust jacket, spine very slightly cocked, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, pages crisp and unmarked, clean covers; overall, a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2nd, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Illustrated with primarily black & white photographs. Sunfading to spine with 2 short separations in cover wraps at top and bottom. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 740 pages, b&w illustrations. Minute stain to lower edge, light wear to dust jacket. A clean, tight copy.
hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt decorations on dust jacket cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. End paper wrinkle otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Published for U. New Hampshire by University Microfilms International, na, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Biographical history of Paul Rosenfeld, his artistic, musical, and literary criticisms and his contemporaries. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise a tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, 1st , May 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Remainder marks to top and bottom edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Schirmer Books, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color and bw throughout. Light toning to edges of preliminary pages. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Softcover. NY, Clinton County Historical Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray stapled wraps, 20 page exhibition catalog with b&w photos of antique and modern instruments with a list of their makers. From a museum library with light stamping. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 337 pages. Hardcover. Some light marginalia in pencil on a few pages. Dust jacket with chipping at top of spine.
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages. Softcover. Normal light wear to cover, otherwise clean and tight copy apart from previous owners name in title page.
Softcover. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Softcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Wrapper has tanning from age, otherwise very good. Pages and edges also have some tanning, but doesn't affect text. Small ink stain on pages 236 and 237. Binding tight. In very good shape.
Hardcover. New York, NY, The Outlook Company, Second Printing, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt board, gilt embossed text block to cover & gilt titles to spine. Sunfade to spine, edges of cover board & top inch of the rear board. Previous owner's signature in faint pencil to fly leaf. Gilt top edge. Frontis illustration Brahms at the Piano, in bw protected with a tissue guard. Illustrations in bw at the beginning of each chapter, Grieg, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, Franck, Tschaikowsky, Brahms. Clean & unmarked copy.
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