New York: Manufacturers of Cable-Nelson Pianos, 1927. Staplebound. A slip green staplebound book. There is white text on a cover with navy blue designs. Rice paper before the first page and after the last page. [27] pages; illustrated with black-and-white photographs. More
New York: The Ampico Corporation, 1929. Softcover. Twelvemo. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 239 pages 19 cm. More
Milan: Edizioni Curci, 1960. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine and on front cover; Very discolored plain white slipcase; 72 pp. plus approx. 70 pp. of plates; 9 color and bw figures; 10 tipped-in color plates; 33 color engravings of sheet music. Text in Italian; About the musicians..... More
New York: Melrose Music Corp, 1949. Staplebound. A sage green staplebound softcover compilation of sheet music. 49 pages. Contents are as follows: Black bottom stomp -- Cannon ball blues -- Chicago breakdown -- Dead man blues -- Grandpa's spells -- Jelly roll blues -- Kansas City stomp -- King porter..... More
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1907. Hardbound. Green library buckram. 165 pp. All scores. This copy has an inked stamp signature of Victor Herbert on the title page for some reason. More
Spoleto, Italy: 33rd Festival dei Due Mondi, 1990. Softcover. Cream rag wraps with color illustration and black lettering; unpaginated with approx. 66 pp. and numerous illustrations. Text in Italian, with the plot also in English; with the usual lists and photos - cast, musicians, synopsis, etc.; with numerous advertisements. More
England: Mitchell & Son / Joseph Thomas / Duff and Hodgson, 1847. Stiff wraps. Sixteenmo. Stiff wraps. Full edge gilt. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles on cover. 52 pages including frontispiece (portrait) 16 cm. More
USA: Various. Hardbound. Maroon cloth library binding with gold lettering; 5 pieces bound together in one volume. Includes Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody (Busoni arrangement); Mendelssohn; Concerto #2 in d minor for Piano, Op. 40 and Rondo Brilliante, Op. 29; Mozart: Lodron Concerto in F Major, K. 242, transcribed for two pianos;..... More
Boston, MA: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980. Hardcover. Blue cloth/brown DJ. 404 pp. Numerous bw plates. This is volume 1 of a 2-volume set that together will contain 9 papers delivered at a conference on colonial music held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. This volume concentrates on music in..... More
Hardbound. Red cloth library binding with gold lettering; four works bound together. Works include Bartok Piano Sonata (1926), published by Boosey & Hawkes with 1939 copyright; Granados Spanish Dances for Piano Nos. 1-12, Opus 5, published in 1941 by Edward Marks; Scriabin Concerto for Piano, Opus 20, published in Moscow..... More
New York: Woolly Whale, 1938. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Red stilk cloth stamped with silver over boards. Unpaginated [125] with French fold pages. Profusely illustrated. The old German folk song about the wooden horse carpenters use, illustrated here by Fritz Kredel. Explanatory text in English, but the song itself is in..... More
New York: S.D. Scott Printing Co., Inc., 1959. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Metallic gold wraps with gilt titles. Unpaginated. illustrations, portraits, plans ; 28 cm. A collection of facsimile concert programs (chiefly period advertisements). 1. Paderewski's inaugural concert, November 17, 1891 -- 2. Ignace J. Paderewski, pianist, Walter Damrosch, cond.... More
Hollywood / Stockholm: Duke Ellington Jazz Society, Inc., 1954. Softcover. Eighteenmo. Softcover. Blue paper wraps with white illustrated titles. Unpaginated. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering; beige and white dj, bw illustration and lettering, mylar cover; xii, 396 pp; bw illustrations and music. Contents: Introduction : Expression, imitation, and the musical topos -- Part one : Mozart's rhythmic topoi -- The shapes of..... More
New York: Vantage Press, 1996. Hardcover. #60 of 500 signed copies. Quarto. Hardcover. Black cloth in b&w illustrated jacket. 26 pages, [171] pages of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm. More
Bologna, Italy: Ut Orpheus, 2004. Softcover. Brown wraps with French flaps. 187 pp. BW illustrations. In Italian. History of the harp. More
Paris: Fayard, 2018. Softcover. Octavo. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 464 pages ; 24 cm. French text. A virtuoso instrumentalist, conductor, chamber musician, pedagogue with innovative methods and concepts, musicologist, collector, and administrator of institutions, Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) shines today through his recordings, his writings, and his "Working Editions," but also through..... More
Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1997. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dj, mylar cover; 586 pp; bw illustrations. James R. Anthony's French Baroque Music, originally published in 1974, was the first definitive study of French music of the Baroque era and remains the only comprehensive survey..... More
Milano: Edizioni Della Scala, 1955. Softcover. Cream card wraps with bw illustration and black decorative lettering; matching dj; 322 pp. with 40 bw illustrations. Text in Italian; the first part (79 pp.) is about Mozart's life; the second about his operatic works, with contributions by 7 different authors; includes a...... More
Cambridge / Paris: Cambridge University Press / Editions De La Maison Des Science, 1991. Softcover. glossy glue & orange illustrated wrappers. 668 pgs w/ musical illustrations. Pages have pencil numbers to upper edges with instances of pencil notations to diagrams. "In this detailed study the author takes a new and..... More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Hardcover. green cloth boards w/ leather & gilt spine plate. 744 pgs w/ musical illustrations. no dustjacket. Pages bright. Appears to be a nice, clean, ex-college library copy, but, may have instances of underlining, marginalia etc. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black dj, bw illustration and white lettering; mylar cover; xiii, 289 pp; bw illustrations, music. Contents: List of special analytic notations -- Tonality in the transitional works I : General considerations -- Tonality in the transitional..... More
Milano: Ricordi, 1956. Softcover. Cream wraps with black and red lettering and illustration of a lyre; 306 pp. with 34 bw plates; in brown, illustrated slipcase. Text in Italian; divided into the two sections of I Viaggi (the trips) by Barblan and Le Lettere (the letters) by Della Corte; with..... More
London, England: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867. Hardcover. Dark brown cloth; 437 pp.; BW frontispiece. Includes a catalogue of Mendelssohn's musical compilations, compiled by Dr. Julius Rietz. More
