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Listen: Gerry Mulligan - An Aural Narrative in Jazz


Klinkowitz, Jerome

Hardcover. NY, Schirmer, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 57618


Price: $35.00 

 

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians: Frederick Chopin


Hubbard, Elbert

Softcover. East Aurora, The Roycrofters, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Brown leather softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Titles in gilt on front cover. "Of this edition there were printed and specially illumined by hand but Nine Hundred and Forty copies, and this book is Number: 235". Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613437


Price: $31.00 

 

Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story 1900-1971


Jones, Max, John Chilton

Hardcover. Boston. MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine, covers excellent. Dust jacket price-clipped, very good. Label residue to front flyleaf. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. In excellent shape. Jones and Chilton bring "Satchmo" to life in this authorized biography. It's the story of how it really was for Louis Armstrong who grew up with less than nothing, and yet went further and lasted longer than most of his contemporaries.

Record # 32211


Price: $25.00 

 

Ludwig Van Beethoven


Schmidt-Gorg (Editors), Joseph, Hans Schmidt

Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages, oversized book with illustrations throughout. Gilt titles and cardboard slip case, minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 854130


Price: $35.00 

Lush Life: A Biography of Billy StrayhornHajdu, David
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn


Hajdu, David

Softcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to wrappers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 453871


Price: $12.00 

 

MARIA CALLAS: Sacred Monster


Galatopoulos, Stelios

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1999-04-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 564 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462513


Price: $19.00 

 

Marian Anderson - A Singer's Journey


Keiler, Allan

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 447 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with minor edgewear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750157


Price: $19.00 

 

Mark the Music - The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein


Gordon, Eric A..

NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 605 pages. Illustrated with black & white photos.

Record # 509460


Price: $25.00 

 

Merry Partners, The: The Age and Stage of Harrigan & Hart


Kahn, Jr., E.J.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Lightly soiled dust jacket, with light wear to edges. Two sections of black and white pictures in center. Tight copy.

Record # 2233486


Price: $25.00 

 

Mezzotints in Modern Music


Huneker, James

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Newspaper clippings laid in. Rough-cut pages. Top edge gilt. Light edge wear, soiling to covers; spine faded. Binding weak in places. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 850807


Price: $20.00 

 

Mighty Hard Road: The Woody Guthrie Story, A


Yurchenco, Henrietta

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 159 pages. Black-and-white photos throughout. Author assisted by Marjorie Guthrie. Introduction by Arlo Guthrie. Some sun-fading and creasing along dust jacket spine. Small stain on rear dust jacket cover. A little edge wear on rear dust jacket flap. Front dust jacket cover creased, with closed and open tears. Tiny tear on bottom of front flap. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket protected with clear, plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856222


Price: $25.00 

 

More Myself: A Journey


Keys, Alicia, Michelle Burford

Hardcover. New York, Flatiron Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages bright. In great shape. Alicia Keys shares her quest for truth - about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to celebrating her worth.

Record # 31790


Price: $15.00 

Mozart Documents: A Supplement to the Documentary Biography by O.E.DeutschEisen, Cliff
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Mozart Documents: A Supplement to the Documentary Biography by O.E.Deutsch


Eisen, Cliff

Hardcover. Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, October 23, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Tear to front of dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454050


Price: $40.00 

Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791Braunbehrens, Volkmar
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Mozart in Vienna, 1781-1791


Braunbehrens, Volkmar

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 481 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt lettering on spine. Discoloration to top edge. of dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.. 481 pages. Record # 467519

Record # 467519


Price: $13.00 

 

Mozart the Dramatist - A Psychological and Historical Study of Genius


Brophy, Brigid

New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st U.S. , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A study of Mozart, his operas and his age.

Record # 303907


Price: $25.00 

 

Mozart's Death: A Corrective Survey of the Legends Surrounding His Death


Stafford, William

Hardcover. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages, b&w illustrations. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 454012


Price: $40.00 

Mozart's Lettes, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, Edited and Newly TranslatedSpaethling, Robert
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Mozart's Lettes, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, Edited and Newly Translated


Spaethling, Robert

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages. Off-white covers, maroon spine, dust jacket with color illustration, endpapers decorated with map and chronology of Mozart's travels, 16 pages of b&w plates to glossy paper. Very slight edgewear to covers, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, clean boards; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807350


Price: $25.00 

 

Mozart's Women: the Man, the Music, and the Loves of His Life


Glover, Jane

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, remainder mark on bottom of text block, clean and tight copy

Record # 2230437


Price: $19.00 

 

My Road to Opera: The Recollections of Boris Goldovsky


Goldovsky, Boris

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1979-03-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 401 pages, b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Edgewear, rubbing and slight tearing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464458


Price: $25.00 

 

My Wife Maria Callas


Meneghini, Giovanni Battista

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 331 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 63662


Price: $25.00 

 

My Young Years


Rubinstein, Arthur

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, Book Club, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 24 pages of black & white illust. Dj with light wear

Record # 56063


Price: $15.00 

 

New Orpheus - Essays on Kurt Weill, A


Kowalke, Kim H.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604306


Price: $13.00 

 

Old Songs of Skye, The: Frances Tolmie and her Circle


Bowman (EDITOR), Derek; Bassin, Ethel

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to paper edges. Faded on spine.

Record # 2233552


Price: $23.00 

 

Orchestra and Orchestral Music, The (The Music Lover's Library)


Henderson, W. J.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Hardcover. Publisher's brick cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Wonderful portraits in black & white throughout, featuring Beethoven, Nikisch, Haydn, Wagner, Lamoureux, Thomas, Richter and Berlioz. Some light toning to pages, clean pages, in very good condition for its age.

Record # 6670095


Price: $25.00 


  
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