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1791: Mozart's Last Year


Landon, H.C. Robbins

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1st Am, May 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket price-clipped. Very good.

Record # 454912


Price: $12.00 

27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy WinehouseSounes, Howard

27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse


Sounes, Howard

Hardcover. US, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470717


Price: $23.00 

 

A Popular History of Music


Matthews, W.S.B.

Hardcover. Chicago, The "Music" Magazine Publishing Co, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 536 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated cover. Top edge gilt, previous owner's inscription. Inside of hinge in back is ripped but otherwise very good.

Record # 511086


Price: $10.00 

Age of Mozart and Beethoven, ThePestelli, Giorgio

Age of Mozart and Beethoven, The


Pestelli, Giorgio

Softcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover. Minor soiling to top edge of text block. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges.

Record # 471740


Price: $15.00 

 

All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing! - A Pictorial History of the Movie Musical


Springer, John

Hardcover. NY, Citadel, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Many black & white photos. Foreward by Gene Kelly. Dj with big chunk gone from rear panel. price clipped 256 pages.

Record # 59237


Price: $25.00 

 

American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism 1885-1917


Crunden, Robert M.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped, some tanning to back cover, very good. Tan cover boards, brown quarter cloth, brown title on spine. Binding tight. Pages clean. Edges have a touch of foxing. Provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to our entry into World War I.

Record # 33506


Price: $15.00 

 

Antonin Dvorak


Horejs, Dr. Antonin

Hardcover. Artia Praga, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Polish text. Unpaginated, b&w photographs throughout. Light yellow top edge. Edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850985


Price: $25.00 

Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of The Who 1958-1978 Neill, Andy and Matt Kent

Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of The Who 1958-1978


Neill, Andy and Matt Kent

Hardcover. London, Friedman Fairfax, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. illustrated in color and b&w. In bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 411300


Price: $50.00 

 

Art of Music: American Paintings & Musical Instruments, 1770-1910, The


N/A

Softcover. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white illustrations with occasional color illustration. Light shelf-wear and edge-wear. Top corner of rear cover slightly faded. A little foxing on top edge. Minor soiling to fore and bottom edges. Bottom corner of last few pages and rear cover lightly creased. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856432


Price: $25.00 

 

Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky


Thomas, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610963


Price: $38.00 

 

BALLAD OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH, A: The Songs and Music sung and played by Union and Confederate Soldiers during and after the Civil War.


Angle, Paul M. and Miers, Earl Schenck.

Hardcover. Kingsport, TN, Privately Printed at Kingsport Press, 1st, February, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First Edition. Limited to 1250 copies for presentation. Laid inside front cover a presentation letter signed by Frank S. Sheahan of Kingsport Press. Colophon reads in part, printed by Kingsport Press, Inc., in an edition of twelve hundred fifty copies, solely for distribution among its friends. The plates have been destroyed, there will be no reprint. 78 pages. Illustrated throughout with musical instruments. 8vo. Blue and gray cloth. Gilt pictorial of banjo and guitar with song book centered front cover. Scarce. As New in original plastic dust jacket. Slipcase with browning at edges.

Record # 220706


Price: $29.00 

 

Beethoven's Hair


Martin, Russell

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, October 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Very good.

Record # 454897


Price: $10.00 

 

Beethoven: A Documentary Study


Landon, H. C. Robbins (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Am, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 400 pages, b&w and color plates throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing, a few small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851427


Price: $40.00 

 

Beethoven: Les Grandes Epoques Creatrices (2 Volumes)


Rolland, Romain

Softcover. Paris, Editions du Sablier, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, French text. 438 pages in total, b&w illustrations. Rough-cut pages. Tan paper wrappers w/ soiling, light edge wear. Small tears, pieces missing from spine of Volume I. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf of Volume I. Else nice, clean copies.

Record # 851000


Price: $40.00 

Bells & ManPrice, Percival

Bells & Man


Price, Percival

Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light foxing to top edge. Price clipped dust jacket has 3" tape repaired tear with chip missing on rear. Dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603936


Price: $60.00 

 

Beneventan Chant, The (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Kelly, Thomas Forrest

Hardcover. London, England, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, some light agewear on back cover, gilt title on green on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In very good condition. '

Record # 32376


Price: $50.00 

Birth of Bebop, The: A Social and Musical HistoryDeVeaux, Scott

Birth of Bebop, The: A Social and Musical History


DeVeaux, Scott

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 572 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Upper spine cocked, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230938


Price: $19.00 

 

Blues Album Cover Art, The


Marsh (Editor), Graham/Barrie Lewis

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd printing, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Softcover. Full color examples of great blues album covers from the 1950's to 1970's. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614194


Price: $25.00 

Bob Dylan In AmericaWilentz, Sean

Bob Dylan In America


Wilentz, Sean

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 390 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Some stains to front and back dust jacket cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466859


Price: $15.00 

 

Break It Up: Patti Smith's Horses and the Remaking of Rock'n'Roll


Paytress, Mark

Hardcover. London , Portrait, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 402512


Price: $15.00 

 

Bruce Springsteen on Tour: 1968-2005


Marsh, Dave

Hardcover. US, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2006-10-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 324 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and tearing to dust jacket, remainder mark to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465819


Price: $25.00 

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin WallMohr, Tim

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall


Mohr, Tim

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471844


Price: $19.00 

 

Business History Review: Spring 2006


Harvard Business School

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard Business School, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles on Accounting Practices, Container shipping and the decline of N.Y., Polygram as a Musical Multinational.

Record # 809325


Price: $12.00 

 

C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796-1873 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)


Gura, Philip F.

Hardcover. US, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2003-09-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463554


Price: $38.00 

 

Chopin and Other Musical Essays


Finck, Henry T.

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.

Record # 6670139


Price: $44.00 

 

Cinema Journal - Fall 1997 - Volume 37 - No. 1


Cinema Journal

Softcover. Champaign, University of Illinois, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages plus ads. Softcover. Features: Tim Anderson on music in the nickelodeons, David Slavin on French colonist filmmaking in the 20's, Rick Worland on Hollywood Horror movies of WWII, Poshek Fu on Chinese filmmaking under the Japanese occupation, Trevor Ponech on perception and spectatorship. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 611334


Price: $10.00 

 

Cinema Journal - Summer 1988 - Volume 27 - No. 4


Cinema Journal

Softcover. Champaign, University of Illinois, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages plus ads. Softcover. Features: Ben Singer on Christian Metz, Patricia R. Zimmermann on Home Movies, Kathryn Kalinak on Music and The Magnificent Ambersons, Andrew Horton on When Father Was Away on Business, Cinema Journal Index. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 611329


Price: $10.00 

 

City Ballads


Carleton, Will

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.

Record # 850103


Price: $12.00 

 

Civil, Religious and Mourning Councils and Ceremonies of Adoption of the New York Indians - New York State Museum - Bulletin 113


University of the State of New York

Softcover. Albany, University of the State of New York, Reprint, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 451 pages. Softcover. 3 pages of black & white photographs. Minor darkening to cover edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612832


Price: $10.00 

 

Clockwork Music


Ord-Hume, Arthur W.J.G.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Over 550 b/w illustrations throughout.Cover boards covered in forest green fabric. Gilt title on spine. Other than slight yellowing of edges, in great shape. Clean inside and out. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped. "An Illustrated History of Mechanical Musical Instruments from the Musical Box to the Pianola: From Automaton Lady Virginal Players to the Orchestrion"

Record # 30583


Price: $19.00 

 

Clockwork Music


Ord-Hume, Arthur W.J.G.

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.

Record # 951790


Price: $19.00 

 

Coming up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s


Mordden, Ethan

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.

Record # 457910


Price: $15.00 

Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65Mathieson, Kenny

Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65


Mathieson, Kenny

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.

Record # 2230888


Price: $15.00 

 

Cultural History of the American Revolution, A


Silverman, Kenneth

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.

Record # 63498


Price: $38.00 

 

Dangerous Curves - The Art of the Guitar


Kuronen, Darcy

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.

Record # 750362


Price: $25.00 

 

Das Buch der Violine: Bau, Geschichte, Spiel, Padagogik, Komposition (German text)


Kolneder, Walter

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).

Record # 32915


Price: $31.00 

 

David Ewen Introduces Modern Music: A History and Appreciation from Wagner to the Avant-Garde


Ewen, David

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.

Record # 808602


Price: $12.00 

 

Digest of Music History, A


Forsyth, Cecil

Hardcover. St.Louis, MO, Art Publication Society, Rev. ed., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 196 pages. Very clean.

Record # 109058


Price: $15.00 

dozens, The: a history of rap's mamaWald, Elijah

dozens, The: a history of rap's mama


Wald, Elijah

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.

Record # 469197


Price: $15.00 

 

Eighteeth Century Musical Instruments: France and Britain


Thibault, G./Jean Jenkins/Josiane Bran-Ricci

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.

Record # 609550


Price: $15.00 

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New OrleansKrist, Gary

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans


Krist, Gary

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.

Record # 468788


Price: $13.00 

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New OrleansKrist, Gary

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans


Krist, Gary

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.

Record # 469077


Price: $13.00 

 

False Dawn: Paul Rosenfeld and Art in America 1916-1946


Potter, Hugh M.

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.

Record # 806805


Price: $40.00 

 

First Nights: Five Musical Premieres


Kelly, Thomas Forrest

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.

Record # 451907


Price: $28.00 

 

Five Centuries of Music in Venice


Landon, H. C. Robbins/John Julius Norwich

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.

Record # 751025


Price: $15.00 

Folk Musical Instruments Made in the North CountryAllan, Helen and Stanley Ransom

Folk Musical Instruments Made in the North Country


Allan, Helen and Stanley Ransom

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.

Record # 411951


Price: $16.00 

Folk Songs of Old New EnglandLinscott, Eloise Hubbard

Folk Songs of Old New England


Linscott, Eloise Hubbard

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.

Record # 610967


Price: $44.00 

Freedom is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties Saul, Scott

Freedom is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties


Saul, Scott

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.

Record # 2230941


Price: $19.00 

 

From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes From a Jazz Life (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Crow, Bill

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.

Record # 32043


Price: $25.00 

 

From Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their Art


Mason, Daniel Gregory

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.

Record # 6670154


Price: $23.00 

 

Frozen Music: A History of Portland Architecture


Bosker, Gideon and Lena Lencek

Hardcover. 1st, November 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 331 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket w/ edge wear, tears, 1/2 inch piece missing from top back edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451348


Price: $25.00 

 

George Harrison: Yesterday & Today


Michaels , Ross

Softcover. New York, Quick Fox, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Includes appendix of album and song titles. B&w photos on front fly leaf and title page. Light shelf wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857303


Price: $25.00 

 

Goodspeed's Folly: The Life of William Henry Goodspeed and His Opera House (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Jacobs, T. M.

Softcover. US, T. M. Jacobs, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 150 pages. Softcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Only marginal wear to wraps. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Record # 2233093


Price: $19.00 

 

Grand Old Opry, The: The Early Years


Wolfe, Charles K.

Softcover. London , Old Time Music , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. B&w photographs and reproductions of vintage articles throughout. Includes appendix of record listings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 857298


Price: $38.00 

 

Grieg and His Music


Finck, Henry T.

Hardcover. New York, NY, John Lane Company, First Edition, 1909, 317 pages. Hardcover. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt harp design, gilt tltles to cover. Faded gilt titles to spine. Deckled edge. Grey dyed top edge. Illustrations in black & white throughout, including frontis illustration, Portrait of Greig, by William Peters, protected with tissue guard. Clean, tight & unmarked.

Record # 6670137


Price: $25.00 

Heart & soul: a celebration of Black music style in America, 1930-1975Merlis, Bob

Heart & soul: a celebration of Black music style in America, 1930-1975


Merlis, Bob

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Blind stamp on front cover. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Some shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469061


Price: $19.00 

 

Helen Rice: The Great Lady of Chamber Music


McIntosh, Rustin

Hardcover. Burlington VT, George Little Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A look at Helen Rice's unique contribution to the world of chamber music. Mild fading and age toning to dust jacket. Light soiling to dust jacket front panel very faint. Mild age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952369


Price: $15.00 

 

Highland Clans, The: Sir Iain Moncreiffe of That Ilk


Moncreiffe, Iain

Hardcover. New York, NY, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with genealogy chart to endpapers. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with only light, marginal wear to edges. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout, "traces the developmen of Highland life and customs from ancient Celtic times up to the present day...information about dress and dwellings, games and gatherings, superstitions and religions, arms and armor, music and dancing." Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 751536


Price: $38.00 

 

Historische Musikinstrumente im Bachhaus Eisenach


Heyde, Herbert

Hardcover. Germany, Eisenach, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Record # 608285


Price: $25.00 

 

History of Music to the Death of Schubert


Paine, John K.

Boston, Ginn & Co., 1st , 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Excellent condition.

Record # 66132


Price: $23.00 

 

Il Violoncello


Malusi, Lauro

Softcover. Zanibon, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages, b&w illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers. Previous price sticker on rear. Small crease to top right cover corner. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851006


Price: $40.00 

 

Image and Structure in Chamber Music


Ferguson, Donald N.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Minnesota Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608230


Price: $30.00 

Inextinguishable Symphony, The - A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi GermanyGoldsmith, Martin

Inextinguishable Symphony, The - A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany


Goldsmith, Martin

Softcover. New York , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages, including index. Very light edgewear on spine, otherwise very good.

Record # 176218


Price: $10.00 

Inextinguishable Symphony, The: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi GermanyGoldsmith, Martin

Inextinguishable Symphony, The: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany


Goldsmith, Martin

Hardcover. New York, Wiley, reprint, 2000, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 346 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket price clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469264


Price: $10.00 

 

Interpretation of the Music of the XVII & XVIII Centuries, The - Revealed by Contemporary Evidence


Dolmetsch, Arnold

Hardcover. London, Novello & Co., reprint, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 403 pages, green cloth covers. Dust jacket edgeworn. Clean.

Record # 407160


Price: $15.00 

Jazz Book, The: From Ragtime to the 21st CenturyBerendt, Joachim-Ernst

Jazz Book, The: From Ragtime to the 21st Century


Berendt, Joachim-Ernst

Softcover. Chicago, IL, Lawrence Hill Books, Reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 754 pages. Softcover. Minor edge wear, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230856


Price: $18.00 

Jazz Guitar: Its Evolution and Its PlayersSummerfield, Maurice J.

Jazz Guitar: Its Evolution and Its Players


Summerfield, Maurice J.

Softcover. England, Ashley Mark Publishing Co, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover with minor edgewear. Clean, unmarked copy. Minor corner folds on front wrapper. Some shelf wear to back wrapper. Black & white images throughout.

Record # 470839


Price: $31.00 

JazzGiddins, Gary

Jazz


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., Reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 704 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight scuff marks to front of jacket. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230889


Price: $50.00 

 

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz


Kennedy, Rick

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, Reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape. Gives the first detailed account of the people and events behind this unique record company.

Record # 31772


Price: $19.00 

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned MusicianWolff, Christoph

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician


Wolff, Christoph

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 2000, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 599 pages. Hardcover. B&w illustrations and tables of data throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Gutter cracked between half title page and frontispiece. Ex library copy with markings to top edge, spine, and end papers. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468695


Price: $13.00 

 

Just Listen To This Song I'm Singing


Silverman, Jerry

Hardcover. US, Millbrook Press, reprint, 1996-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Extensive sheet music. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466191


Price: $10.00 

 

Kinks, The: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1961-1996


Hinman, Doug

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Backbeat Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy. Black & white photographs throughout.

Record # 2230369


Price: $50.00 

 

La Scala


Arruga, Lorenzo

Hardcover. Milan, Electa Editrice, unk., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by Paolo Grass. A history of the famous opera house. Color black & white photos.

Record # 52724


Price: $35.00 

La Vie en Rose: French Popular Songs in the 20th CenturyDelanoe, Pierre

La Vie en Rose: French Popular Songs in the 20th Century


Delanoe, Pierre

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge of textblock. Othewise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 280 black and white photographs. Includes a CD.

Record # 471569


Price: $25.00 

 

Last Nights Fun - In and Out of Time with Irish Music


Carson, Ciaran

Hardcover. NY, North Point Press, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53637


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Living Texas Blues


Govenar, Alan

Softcover. Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Some shelf-wear to covers. Light wear along spine, including small closed tear. A little soiling on rear cover. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856476


Price: $50.00 

 

Living with Ballads


Muir Willa

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Dust jacket covers lightly soiled, including a couple of water stains. Minor edge wear. Price clipped. Some foxing on fore and bottom edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856170


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 

 

Masters of the Folk Violin: A National Tour of Fiddle Styles


N/A

Softcover. Washington DC, National Council for the Traditional Arts, N/A, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 page stapled brochure for a touring performers showcasing the history and current practitioners of folk fiddling. Illustrated in b&w. From a museum library with light stamping. Otherwise clean.

Record # 411952


Price: $16.00 

 

Measure For Measure: A Musical History of Science


Levenson, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean inside & out. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, dust jacket with only light, marginal wear. A nice copy.

Record # 751527


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Mississippi: An American Journey


Walton, Anthony

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1996-02-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. 12 b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466137


Price: $10.00 

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

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

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's Women: His Family, His Friends, His MusicGlover, Jane

Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music


Glover, Jane

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2006-01-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462015


Price: $10.00 

 

Music in the Air - The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason


Gleason, Toby

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, First Edition, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover with black & grey printed design & black titles to cover. Grey & white titles to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750453


Price: $31.00 

 

Music in the Medieval World


Seay, Albert

Hardcover. NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-lib with minimal markings. Internally clean & tight. Black & white illus.

Record # 52785


Price: $18.00 

 

Music Lover's Handbook, The


Siegmeister, Elie

Hardcover. New York, NY, William Morrow and Company, Reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 817 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Toning to edges, black & white musical scores throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751417


Price: $13.00 

 

Musical Theatre, The - A Celebration


Lerner, Alan Jay

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, An illustrated history, mostly black & white, some color. 240 pages.

Record # 59669


Price: $30.00 

 

My Adventures in the Golden Age of Music


Finck, Henry T.

New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 2nd, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations. 462 pages. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue.

Record # 67593


Price: $12.00 

 

Negro Slave Songs in the United States


Fisher, Miles Mark

Softcover. New York, Citadel Press, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Pictorial wraps with slight wear, soiling. Bottom right corner slightly creased page 193 to back cover. Overall, a nice, clean copy.

Record # 850144


Price: $12.00 

New Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues, TheCowley (editor), John/Paul Oliver

New Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues, The


Cowley (editor), John/Paul Oliver

Softcover. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1st Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 495 pages. Softcover with full page, black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750127


Price: $19.00 

 

New York Mid-Century: Post-War Capital of Culture, 1945-1965


Cohen-Solal, Annie and Paul Goldberger and Robert Gottlieb

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st UK, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. How New York City became the cultural capital of the post-war world in all fields of creative endeavor. With 447 illustrations, 159 in color. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951921


Price: $63.00 

 

Notation of Polyphonic Music: 900-1600, The


Apel, Willi

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Mediaeval Academy of America, 5th Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages plus 28 pages of musical transcriptions. Fifth edition, revised with commentary. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, otherwise clean.

Record # 405371


Price: $25.00 

 

Nothing but the Blues: The Music and the Musicians


Cohn, Lawrence/B. B. King (Introduction)

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Coffee table sized, profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Front flap of dust jacket price-clipped with light creasing.

Record # 2230279


Price: $31.00 

 

Old English Songs from Various Sources


Dobson (introduction by), Austin

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Unfortunate foxing throughout text. Minor wear to illustrated boards with light soil to rear cover.

Record # 856820


Price: $50.00 

 

Opera On The Road - Traveling Opera Troupes In The United States, 1825-60


Preston, Katherine K.

Hardcover. Urbana, University Of Illinois Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new. Black & white illustrations. 479 pages.

Record # 202491


Price: $30.00 

Pearl, The: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's RussiaSmith, Douglas

Pearl, The: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia


Smith, Douglas

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Price sticker to dust jacket rear. Otherwise a tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 471378


Price: $19.00 

 

Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano


Parakilas, James

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 461 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, very little wear. Pages clean, binding tight. Looks nearly new. Piano Roles is a lively and up-to-date history of the piano that examines both its evolution in classical and popular musical cultures around the world, and its every-changing social roles over the past three centuries.

Record # 32041


Price: $19.00 

 

Pictorial History of Jazz, A - People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz


Keepnews, Orrin, and Bill Grauer, Jr.

New York, Crown Publishers, Revised, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 297 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w. Very good condition. Light wrinkling to dust jacket laminate.

Record # 602774


Price: $25.00 

 

Portraits of the World's Best-Known Musicians


McCoy (ed.), Guy

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Theodore Presser, rep, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 5,000 portraits, each with a short biographical note. 251 pages.`

Record # 109056


Price: $13.00 

Producer, The: John Hammond and the Soul of American MusicPrial, Dunstan

Producer, The: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music


Prial, Dunstan

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 347 pages, b&w photographs. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 450321


Price: $18.00 

 

Purcell Remembered


Burden, Michael

Hardcover. US, Faber Faber Inc, 1st, 1995-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462738


Price: $10.00 

PUT ANOTHER NICKEL INBowers, Q. David

PUT ANOTHER NICKEL IN


Bowers, Q. David

Hardcover. Bonaza, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine and a few small tears and tape-repairs to rear cover. Internally very good.

Record # 459877


Price: $15.00 

 

Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress - Volume 37 - Numbers 3-4, - Summer-Fall 1980, The


Mohr (Editor), Frederick

Softcover. Washington, D. C. , Library of Congress, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Softcover. Includes 2 sided Flexi-disc - "A Sound Idea" - Music for Animated Films. 4 cuts: Band 1: Scott Bradley, Band 2: David Raskin - "Giddyap", Band 3: David Raskin - "Unicorn in the Garden", David Raskin - Music Score for "Unicorn in the Garden". Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611451


Price: $15.00 

 

R. E. M. - The Rolling Stone Files


editors of Rolling Stone

Hardcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages, very clean, tight copy, like new. History of R.E.M. from small-town underground band to jet-setting superstardom, as chronicled in Rolling Stone magazine's reviews, in-depth interviews, profiles, and news stories. Introduction by Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone.

Record # 801583


Price: $6.00 

 

Romance of the Fiddle, The


Van der Straeten, E.

Hardcover. London, Rebman Ltd., 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages, 32 b&w plates. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Light rubbing to covers corners. Light foxing to fore-edge and end papers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851037


Price: $75.00 

 

Roots of America and Other Essays


Rourke, Constance

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 57716


Price: $23.00 

 

Roots of the Blues, The


Charters, Samuel

Hardcover. Salem, Marion Boyers, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611695


Price: $15.00 

 

Sailor's Songbook, A


Carey, George G. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851886


Price: $15.00 

 

Shakspere (Literature Primers)


Dowden, Edward/John Richard Green (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, NY, D. Appleton and Company, Reprint, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Brick limp cloth boards with black titles to cover & spine. Lightly cracked to pp. 21. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751418


Price: $25.00 

 

Shem, Ham & Japheth Inc. - The American Crucible


Topolski, Feliks, Illust. by: Feliks Topolski

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Music by David Fanshawe. Unpaginated. Black & white drawings and photography by author.

Record # 204740


Price: $35.00 

 

Slavic Traditions: The Story of Great Music


Johnson, David

Softcover. NY, Time Inc., 1st ed., 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Color photos throughout. Light shelf wear. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, foxing to end papers. Tight copy.

Record # 855630


Price: $15.00 

 

Society and the Lyric: A Study of the Song Culture of Eighteenth-century Scotland


Crawford, Thomas

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Light edgewear tom dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856195


Price: $13.00 

Some Girls Do and Some Girls Don't: Sheet Music CoversLocantro, Tony

Some Girls Do and Some Girls Don't: Sheet Music Covers


Locantro, Tony

Softcover. London ; New York, Quartet Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated, illustrated throughout with 50 plates in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 459956


Price: $15.00 

Somewhere for Me : A Biography of Richard RodgersSecrest, Meryle

Somewhere for Me : A Biography of Richard Rodgers


Secrest, Meryle

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, November 6, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 458526


Price: $19.00 

 

Songs America Sings, The


van Loon, Hendrik Willem & Grace Castagnetta

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear, soil and fraying to pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Internally very good.

Record # 855966


Price: $38.00 

 

Songs of the Cowboys


Thorp, N. Howard ("Jack")

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 346 pages. A stain on front dust jacket cover. Dust jacket chipping and edge wear. Some scratching and rubbing on rear dust jacket cover. Dust jacket price clipped. A few faint spots along top and fore edge. Unmarked, tight copy.

Record # 856221


Price: $23.00 

 

Songs of the Rivers of America


Carmer (Ed.), Carl and Dr. Albert Sirmay

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers stamped with black design. 196 pages, sheet music with b&w illustrations throughout. Part of The Rivers of America series, but larger (9 X 12"). The drawings by various artists picked up from previous volumes in the series. Tiny nick to bottom of cover otherwise, clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Record # 412098


Price: $313.00 

Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America (Folklore Studies in Multicultural World)Jacobson, Marion

Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America (Folklore Studies in Multicultural World)


Jacobson, Marion

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures in center, black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470282


Price: $31.00 

Steinway and SonsLieberman, Richard K.

Steinway and Sons


Lieberman, Richard K.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459932


Price: $19.00 

 

Steinway and Sons


Lieberman, Richard K.

Softcover. Yale University Press, 3rd pr, September 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 374 pages, b&w photographs. Minor wear to wrappers. Else very good.

Record # 454942


Price: $15.00 

 

Sting: Demolition Man


Sandford, Christopher

Hardcover. London, Little, Brown & Company, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Some minor sunfading to spine. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471136


Price: $19.00 

 

Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, The


Hall, Florence Howe

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages, with gilt title on cover. Minor edgewear and fade, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853979


Price: $50.00 

 

Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages: Their Evolution and Development, The


Panum, Hortense

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 511 pages. Gilt titles on blue cloth covers. 400+ black-and-white illustrations. Foxing on top edge and a little on fore edge. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. A few light stains on bottom of first few pages. Minor creasing on top corner of a few pages. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856223


Price: $63.00 

 

Suits Me - The Double Life of Billy Tipton


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Remainder dot top edge

Record # 53922


Price: $18.00 

Swing Era, The: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945Schuller, Gunther

Swing Era, The: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945


Schuller, Gunther

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 919 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight normal wear to jacket, old price sticker to back of jacket. Very light foxing to top of text block, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230940


Price: $25.00 

 

The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times


Born, Max, Werner Heisenberg (Introduction), Bertrand Russell (Foreword), Diana Buchwald and Kip Thorne (New Preface)

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Previous owner's address label on front endpaper. B/w illustration on frontispiece. Dark gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A new edition of the correspondence between Max and Hedwig Born and Albert Einstein between 1916 and 1955, where everything from physics to politics, to music and their families was discussed. New Edition

Record # 32892


Price: $31.00 

 

The Great Singers - From the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time


Pleasants, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, light soiling to dust jacket. otherwise very nice condition. previous owner's signature on front paste-down. previous price sticker on upper rt corner of front cover. many black & white photos and reproductions of paintings. hardbound, 382 pgs.

Record # 108726


Price: $28.00 

Thelonious Monk Reader, Thevan der Bliek, Rob (ed.)

Thelonious Monk Reader, The


van der Bliek, Rob (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight fading to spine, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230934


Price: $19.00 

 

Two Hundredth Anniversary - Kentish Guards - Rhode Island Militia - East Greenwich, Rhode Island - Saturday, October 19, 1974


Greene, Capt. Robert Allen/Lt. Col. Maurice A. Schoos/Capt. Philip J. Peckham/1st Sgt. David A. Brenner/Do

Softcover. East Greenwich, Kentish Guards Rhode Island, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Magazine format. Many black & white photographs and local advertising. Some areas of staining and abrasion to covers. Staple binding. "Schedule of Events" sheet laid-in. Good overall condition. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613732


Price: $125.00 

 

Vermont Chap Book: Being a Garland of Ten Folk Ballads


Various

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Press, 2nd Printing, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 48 pages, with preface by Donald Davidson, notes by Helen Hartness Flanders, and illustrations by Arthur Healy. Light dust jacket edge wear and chip, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 855330


Price: $15.00 

 

Victrola Book of Opera, The


N/A

Hardcover. Camden, NJ, Victor Talking Machine Company, 8th, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Red illustrated cloth, black spine. Light wear to edges and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 851463


Price: $12.00 

 

Violin and Viola, The


Nelson, Sheila M.

Hardcover. London, 1st Am, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 277 pages, b&w photographs and diagrams. Rubbing, light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451976


Price: $15.00 

Violin-Making: as it was, and isHeron-Allen (ed.)

Violin-Making: as it was, and is


Heron-Allen (ed.)

Hardcover. London, Ward Lock & Co., Limited, reprint, no date, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. "Being a Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional." Undated facsimile reprint of 1885 2nd edition. Red cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, gray dust jacket with brown illustration and titles, mylar protective covering to dust jacket, over 200 b&w illustrations by author, 6 b&w plates, including frontispiece and 3 fold-out panels with violin diagrams traced from originals. Light rubbing to covers, dust jacket spine faded, dust jacket edges lightly discolored with age, price-clipped, pages crisp and unmarked, neat binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 606710


Price: $40.00 

 

Visions of Jazz - The First Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 690 pages

Record # 124194


Price: $28.00 

 

Visions of Jazz - The First Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 690 pages

Record # 175141


Price: $28.00 

Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyGiddins, Gary

Visions of Jazz: The First Century


Giddins, Gary

Softcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 690 pages. Softcover. Very light wear to covers, some bending to front, overall clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230878


Price: $15.00 

 

Was Mozart Poisoned?: Medical Investigations into the Lives of the Great Composers


O'Shea, John

Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 247 pages, with illustrations, minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 457261


Price: $12.00 

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second CenturyGiddins, Gary

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 632 pages. Minor shelf-rubbing to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 450320


Price: $28.00 

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second CenturyGiddins, Gary

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 532 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light wear to jacket, two small scratches to upper jacket spine. Otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230937


Price: $19.00 

 

Weep Some More My Lady


Spaeth, Sigmund

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages, b&w illustrations. Red top edge. Orange covers soiled, w/ small stains. Rear hinge starting to crack, binding slightly weak. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 850945


Price: $20.00 

 

When Hollywood Had A King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence


Bruck, Connie

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 513 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the front flap: "In When Hollywood Had A King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry--businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.

Record # 30500


Price: $19.00 

Why Jazz HappenedMyers, Marc

Why Jazz Happened


Myers, Marc

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear to jacket, scuffing to back. Name of previous owner in pen in front end paper. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230935


Price: $19.00 

 

Will the Circle be Unbroken: Country Music in America


Kingsbury, Paul

Hardcover. US, DK Publishing, 1st american, 2006-09-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Embossed sticker from Country Music Hall of Fame on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466135


Price: $19.00 

 

Winged Serpent, The - American Indian Prose and Poetry


Astrov, Margot

Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Softcover. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750977


Price: $15.00 

 

World of Musical Comedy, The


Green, Stanley

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , Unknown, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A history of the musical stage by it's foremost composers and lyricists. Black & white photos, 397 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, spine fading

Record # 200375


Price: $11.00 

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