Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974. 8vo. 372 pages. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Owner's name on pastedown. FIRST EDITION. An excellent study of how Joyce uses music to expand and orchestrate his major themes.
Brooklyn: Grant Brower, 1894. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 24 pp. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Somewhat age-darkened, a few chips at edges of wrappers. Revised edition, after the first of 1891. Exercises, scale studies, arpeggios or harp chords, harmonics, slides, double fingering, velocity studies, barre, a duet for two.....
New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., [1939]. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. 281pp. Original blue cloth; original printed dust jacket. Copland contexualized modern music based on a discussion of early fundamentals in this, his first book.
[New York]: Privately Printed, [1914]. 8vo. 36 pp. Double-page photographic plate of the guests seated at the supper. Original gray wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. A near-fine copy with light soiling and edgewear to the wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Henry Holt was toastmaster and addresses were made by Edwin.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1914. 8vo. 364pp. Frontispiece of Rabindranath Tagore, 14 plates and 2 tables. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth; printed dust jacket. A near-fine copy with slight toning to the spine, a few minor stains, and light wear. FIRST EDITION.
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New York: Gershwin Publishing Corp, [1935]. 4to. 559 pages. Printed wrappers, cloth spine. FIRST EDITION of the vocal score to Gershwin's musical.
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. 8vo. xviii, 222 pp. Profusely illustrated. Original quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in a fresh and bright jacket. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the half-title: "For Bob with thanks Philip." A review copy, with the publisher's slip and errata slip.....
New York: Ballantine, [1969]. First edition, first printing. Paperback original. 8vo. 340 pp. 16 pp black-and-white photos. Original printed wrappers. Some light soiling, modest paper browned. Classic account of the San Francisco music scene in the late 1960s, with histories of The Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and.....
Hollywood, CA: Capitol Records, 1992. Oblang 4to. 219 pages. Color photgraphs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, a limited edition for promotional use only, not for sale.
London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). [iv], 208pp. Half-title. Contemporary English speckled calf. Rebacked, some offsetting from binding at edges of preliminaries and terminal leaves, free endpaper slightly chipped at edges, L1-2 with offset stain. Provenance: armorial bookplate from a member of the Clayton family.....
New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Tall 8vo. 288pp. Black-and-white illustrations. Original cloth; pictorial jacket. A very good copy in slightly worn jacket that has several chips and closed tears at top, the rear panel somewhat toned. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Thomson in 1986 on a separate.....
Reading, Connecticut: By the author, 1922. 4to (305 x 242 mm; 12 x 9½ inches). 259, [4] pages. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. A fine copy with one small pale stain on the spine. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with pages 37-39 printed. “114 Songs [was] privately printed and distributed without copyright.....
Stuttgart: Hoffmannsche Buchdruckerei Felix Kraus, 1953. 4to. xxii, 361 pp. In German. Portrait frontispiece, 21 facsimile plates of musical manuscripts, some folding. Original parchment-backed boards, lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges gilt. A near-fine copy, rear hinge tender. FIRST EDITION. The extensive catalogue of the important collection of musical.....
New York: Simion and Schuster, 1949. 8vo. Original cloth. Pp.125-6 removed, lower corners of preliminaries with soft creases, spine faded, some wear at ends of spine and corners. Provenance: Julius La Rosa (embossed stamp, his highlighting, underlining, and notes). FIRST EDITION. JULIUS LA ROSA'S COPIOUSLY MARKED COPY OF OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN.....
Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1904. Small folio (305 x 228 mm). Black-and-white portrait of Royal de Forest Hawley, and 36 mounted plates, of which most in color; printed tissue guards preserved. Original red cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 1399 of 2000 copies. With a fine.....
One page, 4to, a bifolium. With separate oblong sheet, being the envelope, also signed by Maroncelli. Piero Maroncelli writes in 1843 to an unspecified professor of music, discussing a third party, who seems to be the addressee’s music pupil: Translation: "To my respectable friend, I have learned that Mr. [redacted] has for a......
New York: Richards Rosen Press, 1981. 4to. 404 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket a bit soiled and with tears and small losses at spine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BEVERLY SILLS on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes, Beverly Sills."
Taschen, 2009. Oblong folio. 416 pages. Cloth-backed boards.
Chicago: William Lewis & Son, 1959. 4to (278 x 215 mm). Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original simulated leather spine, brown boards, gilt-lettered. Provenance: David W. Young, owner of the "Goding" Amati. FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 877 of 3000 copies of the "Library Edition."
Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, [1910]. 4to (11 x 8 inches). [8], 448, 48 pp., [44] leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. (some col.), facsimiles, map, music. Original gilt-decorated vellum-backed boards. Rear joint cracked, boards soiled.
Los Angeles: Southern California Music Company, 1916. 8vo (10 x 7 inches). 62 pp. Two photographic illustrations in the introduction. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, child's pencilings on inner front and outer rear wrappers; one leaf with chips at edges. Presumed first edition. Includes instruction on how.....
Milan, Rome, etc. G. Ricordi & Co, 1893. 4to (267 x 203 mm; 10½ x 8 inches). 471 pages. Full-page portrait of Verdi. Original gilt-lettered and -ruled green cloth. A fine copy with only slightest of wear at the ends of the spine. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Published the same.....