Carl Sandburg's New American Songbag.
New York: Broadcast Music Inc, 1950. Wraps. Magazine format. Color pictorial cover. 107pp. Some light chipping at edges of covers. More
Music
The Hawley Collection of Violins; With a History of their Makers and a brief review of the evolution and decline of the art of violin making in Italy. 1540-1800
Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1904. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (12 /2" x 9 1/2") Gray paper over red boards. Paper title label to spine. 103pp. This is copy #1950 of 2000 copies. 37 full page color and black and white illustrations on violins, with tissue guards. There is a 2"..... More
The Voice of Music: Conversations With Composers of Our Time.
Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2001-01. Unknown. 335pp. A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. More
Blown Away; The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1990. First edition. Full Leather. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 349pp. Bound in full red leather with 4 raised bands to spine. Signed by the author. Collector's note laid-in. More
Musical Instruments Historic, Rare and Unique.
London: A and C Black LTD, 1921. Quarto. (12 1/2" x 9 1/2") 123pp Cream and red boards with gilt lettering and design to cover and spine. Illustrated by a series of forty-eight plates in colours drawn by William Gibb. Some foxing. Originally published in 1888... More
Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues.
Chicago Review Press, 2010-05. First edition. Hardcover. A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. in a brodart protecitve cover. More
Busoni the Composer.
London and Boston: Faber And Faber, 1985. Hardcover. 25.5 x 16 cm. Sm 4to. 408 pages. Black cloth in dust jacket. Some toning to the dust jacket. More
Theory of Harmony.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. Quarto. 441 pages. Green cloth in dust jacket. Originally published in 1911 by Universal Edition, Vienna, as Harmonielehre. This translation based on the 3rd edition (1922) first published in 1978. Fading to the spine of the jacket as..... More
The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family (1626-1762) Their Life and Work.
The Holland Press, 1965. Hard Cover. Quarto. 173pp (including index) A very nice copy in a chipped dust jacket. In an archival mylar protective wrapper. Exquisite reproduction in colour of tyhpical examples of Guarneri violins and many photogravure representations of violin details. More
Barrel Organ: The Story of the Mechanical Organ and Its Repair.
A. S. Barnes, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto.567pp. Nice copy in dust jacket. More
Music Instruments through the Ages.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Hard Cover. 8vo. 344 pp. Excellent copy of hardbound revised edition. Jacket is crisp (although clipped). Includes many black/white photographs, line drawings, and diagrams as illustrations. More
Folk music: Hungarian Musical Idiom.
Corvina, 1986. Hard Cover. Octavo. 188pp A very nice copy in dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. More
Benny, king of swing: A pictorial biography based on Benny Goodman's personal archives.
W. Morrow, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (12" x 9") With 212 illustrations. SIGNED and inscribed on front free endpaper by Benny Goodman. Loosely laid in are two sheets. A typed letterhead from William Morrow and Co. to bookseller enclosing this signed copy to her for her collection. The second..... More
Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles; Primitive Percussion Instruments for Modern Use
A.S. Barnes & Co., 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Gray and blue pictorial cloth cover in pictorial dust jacket. 206pp and index. Edge chipping with some loss to dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. This edition was printed in the one hundredth Anniversary Year of A.S.Barnes & Co... More
Programming the Absolute Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment.
Princeton University Press, October 21, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 346pp A very nice copy in dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. More
Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840.
Holland: George Ronald, 1956. First printing. Hard Cover. 4to. 169pp plus plates. Nice copy in jacket. More
Dylan A Biography.
McGraw-Hill, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. octavo. 639pp A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. This copy has a full page presentation copy and is SIGNED by author Bob Spitz. In a brodart protective wrapper. More
Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia 1917-1970.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 550pp. A nice copy in dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. More
Alter Ego.
Quercus, 2018. First printing. Hardcover. SIGNED on title page. Also laid in is a signed letter from Brian Freeman to former owner of Once Upon a Crime Bookstore. A fine copy in an equally nice dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. More
Jazz Records 1897-1942; TWO VOLUMES
Arlington House, 1978. 4th Revised and Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Two Volume set. There is some chipping to edges of dust jackets. In brodart protective wrappers. More
The PRS Guitar Book.
A Balafon Book/An Imprint of Outline Press LTD, 1999. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. #1088 of 6000 copies. A very nice hardcover copy in equally nice dust jacket and slipcase. More
Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments.
New York: Vestal Press, 1972. second printing. Hard Cover. Quarto. 1008pp Nice copy in chipped dust jacket. Some ink notations from previous owner on front dj flap. Name of previous owner stamped on front endpaper Spine faded dj. Including: Cylinder Music boxes, Disc Music boxes, Piano Players and Player Pianos..... More
Compositions and Concepts.
Cajole Productions, 2010-01. First printing. Paperback. Oversize paperback. SIGNEDand inscribed by Carei. More
Songs of the Rivers of America.
New York: Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 196pp. SIGNED by editor, Carl Carmer on half-title page. Music arranged by Dr. Albert Sirmay. An excellent copy in dust jacket. Wear at edges of jacket with a couple of closed tears. Sunning to dust jacket spine. Jacket protected in..... More
Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936.
University Of Chicago Press, January 7, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. octavo. 347pp A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. In a mylar wrapper. More