Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong hardcover in illustrated turquoise colored paper covered boards over cloth spine; rear cover is adverts for publisher's "New Books for Boys and Girls". 208 pp. This copy lacking the title page so preface is the first page of text. First edition, first.....
Harrisville, NH: Privately Printed, 1975. Signed, Limited. Spiral/wrappers. No. 218 of an unspecified number of copies, SIGNED BY PERRON AND MILLER. Quarto sized, spiral bound in emerald green wrappers lettered in black and with gilt decoration. Unpaginated. Scarce collection of 72 traditional Irish fiddle tunes transcribed from live and recorded.....
Scribner, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 365 pp. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Remarkably hard-to-find autobigraphy of legenday founding KISS drummer Peter "Catman" Criss. Criss (born Peter Crisacuola in 1945) tells of the homemade drum set he pounded on growing.....
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Oversized hardcover in orange cloth. Generally fine, orange stripe along the inner edge of the bottom of the text block, a touch shaken. In near fine dust jacket. xix+ 250 pp. with glossary, index. Illustrated.....
Ecco, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 622 pp. with index. Illustrated with color and black and white photos. Noted rock biographer Philip Norman presents this detailed look at a rock icon who has been one of the most notorious and enigmatic. He shows.....
Brooklyn, NY: Haskell House, 1976. Hardcover. Cloth, 453 pps. with bibliography. Dictionary, with pronunciation guide, of musical terms designed for college-level students or those who have a special interest in the field. The defintions are succint and the language simple and easy to read, and does not assume that the.....
1940. 8X10" black and white formal portrait of composer and noted organist Pietro Alessandro Yon seated at a console organ. Inscribed in white ink "To my friend and pupil/ Maestro Harry Meyerwitz/ Pietro A. Yon/ N.Y.C June 1940". Clean, storng image, some chipping to the lower right corner not affecting.....
Mainz, Germany: Schott. Softcover. AS NEW. Oversized softcover. 13 pp.
Mainz, Germany: Schott. Softcover. Fine. Oversized softcover. 7 pp.
Mainz, Germany: Schott. Softcover. AS NEW. Oversized softcover. 11 pp.
London: Delius Trust, 1974. Limited ed. Hardcover. One of 500 numbered copies only of which this is No. 439. Hardcover. 182 pp. A fine, fresh, apparently unused example in crisp dust jacket that has some light foxing a couple stray marks on the front panel.
NY: Oxford Univ Pr, 1990. Hard Cover. Four volumes, second edition with corrections. AS NEW IN DUST JACKETS. Multi-volume rates apply and expedited and or international shipments will require significant extra postage. Please inquire.
London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1963. Softcover. Color illustarted softcovers; 76 pps. Very good, deaccessioned from the publisher's American rental library, with three small stickers to that effect (two on the cover and one on the title page.) Rathera scarce score/libretto.
New York: Taplinger, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition. Hardcover in bright pink cloth with spine lettered in gilt. xvii+ 446 pp. with index. A fine, fresh example in bright, crisp, fine dust jacket with color photographic image of Barbirolli. Biography of John Barbiolli, whose career started as a cellist.....
Privately Printed, 1986. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover. Inscribed twice by Restum, to one person on the front pastedown and to two others again on the front free endpaper. 132 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Memoirs of saxophonist Willie Restum (d.2006) a lounge entertainer who over the years shared the stage.....
London: Oxford, 1963. Softcover. Soft covers. 246 pp. with index. Covers a bit rubbed.
NY: Dutton, 1964. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Cloth, 224 pps. with index, bibliography. From the personal library of former New York City Opera managing director Daniel Rule with pencil notations in his hand on both sides of the front free endpaper. Still a valuable guide with insightful points about.....
New York: G. Schirmer, 1934. Later printing. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover in green cloth lettered in gilt. Vocal score by Richard Kleinmichel, English version by Henry Grafton Chapman, and with an essaya dn the story of the opera by H.E. Krehbiel. xiv+ 301 pp. The basic piano score with both Germana.....
NY: Greenberg, 1955. Second. Hardcover. The second printing (the first was nearly 30 years earlier in 1927) of this collection of traditional American mountain region songs. Cloth, 120 pps. with index; illustrated with drawings. Gathered from the log cabins and remote highlands of Tennessee, northern Georgia, the Carolinas, Kentucky, Arkansas.....
NY: F. Watts, 1987. First. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in equally fine dust jacket. The first full-scale biography of Judith Gautier, a woman of renowned beauty who was the first female Academician in France, author, inspiration to Wagner in writing "Parsifal" and to Sargent in a......
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo , ex -lib in 3/4 leather over green cloth, white hand-lettering on spine strip. xxvii+317 pp., glossary, index of first lines. Frontispiece engraving "Ecce Ancilla Domini" and engraved first title page. Collection of lyrics of English Christmas Carols from.....
Gotham, 2012. first printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. First printing. 455 pages, with index. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
Bloomsbury, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition. 463 pages, with index. Illustrated with photographs. The story of Stax Records, a company founded by a white brother and sister in Memphis in 1957 (the original name of the lable was Satellite Records; the name was.....
Mcgraw-hill, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (no statement as is correct). Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Shirley and Norman/ All my best/ Robert Merrill". Hardcover. 240 pp. Illustrated with photos. Very good in dust jacket with significant chips top front and rear bottom panels. Memoirs and observations.....
Dover Publications, 1982. Paperback. Oversized in glossy illustrated softcovers. vii+183 pp. Contains Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.54 (from 1846), Concertstuck, Op. 92 (introduction and Allegro appassionato from 1852) and Introduction and Allegro, Op 134 (published 1855). Near fine, corners a bit bumped, internally clean.
