American Music Center Library Catalog of Choral and Vocal Works
New York: American Music Center, 1975. Softcover. Printed wrappers, quarto sized. vii+ 198 pp. Fine, apparently unused example.
New York: American Music Center, 1975. Softcover. Printed wrappers, quarto sized. vii+ 198 pp. Fine, apparently unused example.
New York: G. Schirmer. Hardcover. Green cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt. No date (circa 1960s). 255 pp. Libretto by W. Friedrich with English version by Natalia Macfadden. With an essay on the story of the opera by H.E. Krehbiel. Fine, previous owner's signature frontpastedown. Issued without dust jacket.
London: Longmans and Co., 1852. Cloth. Square, slim 8mo. in blindstamped blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration front cover. All edges gilt. 45 pps. plus one page publisher's ads. Collection of sixty children's songs with musical arrangements provided. Soiling and staining to about half of the front and raer.....
Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Softcover. Fine. Softcover (not issued in hardcover). 163 pp. The life story of jazz trumpeter Lee Collins, which provides insight into the formative years of jazz in New Orleans and Chicago after 1930. Collins' story takes place on the backdrop of loose Louisiana life.....
NY: Stein & Day Pub, 1981. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Cloth, 182 pps. with index. Illustrated. Biography. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Atheneum, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Hardcover. 327 pp. with discography, index. Illustrated. Fine (small ownership initials and date top corner front free endpaper). Biography of one of the great singers of the early 20th century, English born Mary Teyte (born Tate in Wolverhampton). She reached her.....
NY: Schirmer, 1978. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Cloth, 406 pps. with bibliography, index. Biography of composer Gustav Mahler. Fine in dust jacket with fade to the spine and a darkened repair spot, aprox. 1" long, at the right side of the front panel.
New York: Crown/RandomHouse, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 275 pp with index. KISS frontman Gene Simmons' autobiographical account of his life as a legendary rock star. With anecdotes about vice-filled adventures and his relationships with Cher and Diana Ross, Simmons tells his side.....
Ormond Beach, FL: Privately Printed, 1941. Hardcover. Slim 8vo in red buckram cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Patterned endpapers. Title page printed in colors, frontis portrait of Foster, illustrated with small color drawings and with reproductions of original lyrics sheets of Foster's songs. Inscribed on the dedication page and.....
Hal Leonard, 2007. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 293 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with color and black and white photos. Biography of Led Zepplein's legendary guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. Biographer Case leaves no stone unturned in providing detail from the heady days of swingin' London in.....
Madison: A-R Editions, Inc., 1972. First edition. Paperback. First Edition. Softcover. 107 pp. Fine, fresh, example.
Anacona, Italy: Berben, 1973. Softcover. Oversized softcover. 9 pp. Fine.
Madrid: Union Musical Ediciones. Softcover. AS NEW. Oversized softcovers. 15 pp.
New York: Warner Books, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Firts ediiton, first printing. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. hardcover. 370 pp. with dicsography. Illustrated with photos and with color reproductions of Slick's paintings. Grace Slick was the original "great rock diva", lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, and at the forefront.....
Zurich and New York: Atlantis Books, 1961. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Hardcover, 212 pps. with index. Illustrated. Viennese opear producer, recognizing the lack of professional opera companies in the United States in the mid-1950s, examines the ways in which he undertook to remedy the situation. Fine in fine dust.....
Boca Raton: Masters Music. Softcover. AS NEW. Oversize din illustrated glossy softcovers. 36 pp.
NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1965. Hard Cover. Two volumes, orange cloth with spine stamped in blue and gilt. Sequentially numbered from 374 pps. (Vol. I) to 852 pps. (Vol.II); index, extensive bibliography. Classic, comprehensive, systematic historical work on the opera from ancient and medieval times forward, From the personal library.....
New York: Chappell & Co., 1918. sheet music. Oriignal sheet music, 4 pp, folded. Front cover features World War I-era illustration of a soldier girl aiminga rifle at a heart in a bulklseye held by four soldiers. Very good, back cover (an advertisment for a different song) has some soiling.....
Boston: Le Roy Phillips. First. Cloth. (1914) First edition. Tan buckram lettered in gilt, pages uncut; illustrated with 21 tipped on portraits mounted on specially tipped in sheets. Very handsome volume with biographical sketches of composers, conductors, singers, violinists, pianists, cellists. Fine in the very scarce dust dust jacket with.....
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967. Second edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. xiii+192 pp. with index, appendix of Dufay works, appendix of manuscript abbreviations. Illustrated with musical notations. The second (and preferred) edition, with corrections. A tight, fine example, some light foxing about the edges of the text block. In crisp dust.....
Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg, 1965. Hardcover. Reiissue of the edition published ca. 1900 in Leipzig for the German Handel Society. Bound in light blue cloth with spine lettering gilt; 115. pps. Full vocal score in Italian. A fine, clean copy, touch of spine fade. From the personal library of former New.....
Madison: A-R Editions, 1970. Softcover. Oversized in printed softcovers. 120 and 120 pp. Full scores with lyrics. Fine. Volume VII of the Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance" series. Contains parts 26 through 47 of Handl's "Moralia" of 1596.
St. Louis, MO: Concordia Pub House, 1969. 7th edition. Paperback. Softcover in bright yellow glossy illustrated covers depicting an organ. 225 pp. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and diagrams. Fold in large diagram of the three-manual organ in back. Fine. Translated version of 7th edition.
Joseph, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 278 pps with index, illustrations. A history of the infamous music academy St. Martin in the Fields. Fine, tight copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket.
New York: C.H. Ditson, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, in dark brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Presumed first printing. 147 pp. (Part One) and 129 pp. (Part Two) and 88 pp. (Part Three) plus 5 page Compendium of the History of American Colleges Established Prior To the.....