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New York: A.S. Barnes for Perpetua Books, 1961-63. Eleven volumes, 8vo. Each illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout text. Original pictorial wrappers; preserved in the original publisher's shelfworn slipcase. A superb piece of 60s design, this boxed set of illustrated jazz biographies was originally published between 1959 and 1963. As Michael.....
New York: Quill, 1985. 10 x 7 inches. 143 pages. Original printed wrappers. Includes profiles of King Sunny Adé, Fela Kuti, Prince Nico Mbarga, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, Franco, Orchestra Jazira, and many others.
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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."
Offenbach: Johann André; London: J. J. Ewer; Vienna: F. Glöggl; Leipzig: B. Hermann, [1850]. Folio (12.5 x 10 inches). Title-page, index, 129 lithographed pages music, catalogue number 6749; 4-page advertisement at end. 19th-century German marbled boards, paper backstrip (partly perished), cloth corners.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. 10 x 9 inches. 141 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original grey cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. "Portraits of fifty-five musicians most closely associated with an authentically American music and features authentic voices, vivid recollections, and song lyrics" (the publisher).
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. 8vo. 84 pages. 62 black-and-white plates. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket.
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."
New York: Dial Press, 1971. 8vo. 159 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
New York: William R. Scott, 1944. 8.5 x 10 inches. 96 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original printed boards. First edition.
New York: Washington Irving Auditorium, 1983. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 20 pages, mimeographed. Stapled in wrappers. First edition.
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.....
New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1925. 10 x 7 inches. 43 pages. Original blue cloth. "Sing, therefore, as often as may be and as tunefully as you can, these songs of Barnard, new and old, and may they give you joy! (Virginia C. Gildersleeve, from her introduction).
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.....
