November Issue. Volume 37, Number 222. Some articles written or about FAMOUS AMERICANS: J. ROSS BROWNE:Explorations in Lower California (Second Paper) pp.740-752 with illustrations; Fish-Culture in America, pp.721-739 with illustrations- one of SETH GREEN; The Handel Festival at the Crystal Place, 1868, pp.753-759 with illustrations-one of CHRISTINE NILSSON; and Democracy of the Chinese by REV. WILLIAM SPEER, pp.839-848. Soiling to front cover. Ink "blottish" from spill? on lower spine on to front lower cover, widest area 1/2". One inch tear, side edge chipped. "Duplicate" ... View More...
32 pp. of songs and medicinal advertisements. Covers have dirt smudges, bent corners and chipped/torn page edges. Interior pages have some small tears. Paper is browning from age. Text is easily legible. Overall this book is in Good condition. View More...
Edited, with a Prologue and Copious Descriptive Particulars, by Allen; and a Foreward by Bridget D'Oyly Carte. Illustrated with Contemporary Drawings. Facsimilies of 27 first night programs and indulgence slips in separate gilt box. Issue of The Heritage Club Sandglass (Number 1: 24) also included. 465 pp. Green cloth with red linen spine. Gilt slipcase and box (holding programs). Slipcase has shelfwear and rubbing to edges, bumped/creased corners, marks to box. Book spine is darkened, some small marks on cover faces. Interior is tight and clean. Book in VG+ condition. View More...
Interesting biography about the life and music of Peter Tchaikovsky. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers in Very Good condition with some corners bumped and spine edges rubbed. Top spine edge shows signs of pulling from the shelf. Dark red top edge and uncut pages. Both front and back hinges have significant browning. Interior is tight, clean and VG. View More...
Seventy-First Congress, Second Session on H. R. 14. Serial 3. "A bill to make The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States of America." 45 pp. Paper covers with staple-binding. Cover edges are worn, corners are folded and creased, light crease down middle of document, dirt smudges on back. Ex. library stamp on front cover. Paper is browning along edges, several interior page corners are creased. Document in VG- condition. View More...
Volume LIV, No. 6. Issued June, 1936. Photograph of "The Old Violin Maker" taken by H. Armstrong Roberts on front cover. Pages 341-402. Articles about playing the violin and flute, singing, playing hymns and sheet music included. Normal wear to edges and corners, some small tears to edges, darkening along front cover, creasing to spine. Interior pages are clean with no marks, some small tears to edges. Magazine in Good+ to VG- condition. View More...
363 pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, minor soiling to cover faces, scuffing to spine, spine ends are bent and worn with some fraying. Spine is cocked. Gilt top page edge. Ex. library with stamp on front free endpaper and on bottom of title page. Front free endpaper is creased and is starting to separate from book. Back hinge broken, spine also broken in several places within interior. Interior pages browning along edges, otherwise clean. Book in Good condition. View More...
"This book is designed to serve as a convenient check-list for libraries, collectors, and students of key points of issue of the first editions of the works of Stepen C. Foster." 25 pages including numbered descriptions of the illustrations, which is unpaginated but the list goes to 204. Blue cloth covers with photo image of Foster on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners and edges are rubbed, covers are scuffed and soiled, spine is slightly faded, spine ends are bent. Endpapers have foxing. Interior clean, tight. Book in VG- to VG condition. Note: due to the large size o... View More...
Music Education Series. 144 pages with index. Orange covers with light rubbing on corners and edges, spine ends are creased and bent from shelfwear. Previous owner's name written on front free endpaper. Interior tight and clean. Book is VG+. View More...
Set to Pictures by Rosemary Wells. Unpaginated. DJ is Good- with tears to corners, creasing and chipping to edges, soiling, scotch tape on inside of DJ, front flap price-clipped. Light wear to cover corners. Interior is tight and clean. View More...
With the Poem and Its Original Illustrations and Music for Public Recitation. 55 pages, 8 pages of music. Tan paper covers with gilt image of church and title on front cover. Cover edges are very chipped and worn, small water stains along spine edge, creasing to spine. Ex. museum stamps on half title page. Interior is tight and clean. VG- condition. View More...
LAID IN 33 1/3 RPM RECORD "LISTEN" by Joseph Kerman. Chapters include: A Vocabulary for Music; 1550-1600 The Late Sixteenth Century; 1700-1750 The Late Baroque Period; 1775-1825 The Viennese Style; 1825-1900 Romanticism; 1900-1950 The Early Twentieth Century; and 1950- The Electronic Age. 392 pp. including History Chart, Glossary, and Index. Filled with illustrations, photographs, many in color and musical "scores". Gold cloth with white lettering on front cover and spine. Slightly soiled. Slight rubbing to corners and spine ends. Overall covers are Very Good to Very Good+. Pr... View More...
Front cover detached/soiled. Spine worn. Back cover soiled. Mild foxing. Moisture stain bottom title p. but doesn't go through to other pages. Interior is tight. Good condition except for foxing. View More...
Ten musical scores. The scores for TO A WILD ROSE, FROM UNCLE REMUS, and TOLD AT SUNSET have penciled in dates when performed (March 27, 1927, June 21, 1927, and june 3, 1927 respectively) On UNCLE REMUS and TOLD AT SUNSETscores, additional penciled in the rhythm timing "notes". 28 pp. plus 2 pages of Edward Macdowell's advertisements for his instrumental and vocal compositions. Wraps moisture stained around front edges with several chips on bottom edge plus one small tear. Top edge has 3/4" tear. Spine has 2 1/2" tear from top down. Interior except for penciled markings is ... View More...
The Words and Music of Forty-seven of Their Songs from Twenty-two Shows and Two Movies. Foreward by Oscar Hammerstein II. Illustrated by Doris Lee. Arrangements by Dr. Albert Sirmay. Text by Margery Darrell. Stated First Printing. 243 pp. Brick red paper hard covers with grey cloth spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges bumped and rubbed, soiling and scuffing to cover faces, spine is dirty, spine ends are bent. Soiling to page edges. Gift inscription on second free endpaper. Both hinges and interior spine are loose. Interior pages are browning along edges. Book in Good con... View More...
817 pages with index. Green cloth covers with bumped and rubbed corners and edges, scuffing to cover faces, spine ends and corners are bent and worn. Interior tight and clean. View More...
History of music and music performance in Wichita, Kansas. Signed by both authors on title page. Unpaginated. Salmon pink cloth covers with gilt title and images on front, gilt title on spine. No jacket. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed, spine and joints are faded, spine ends are bent. Front hinge broken. Interior clean, tight. Book in VG condition. View More...
Address of the Retiring President. Read before Philosophical Society of Washington, January 15, 1910. Bulletin, Vol. XV, pp. 169-187. Some pages uncut. ex.-mus.stamp and number on front cover. fading and mildly soiled, otherwise VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...