Musica

Don't Worry, Be Happy

McFerrin, Bobby Illustrated By Bennett Carlson · 1989 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Delacorte, 1989. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Scatman: an Authorized Biography of Scatman Crothers

Haskins, Jim With Helen Crothers · 1991 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

NY: Morrow, 1991. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ slight wrinkle at base of dust jacket spine otherwise near fine dust jacket., Sherman (Scatman) Crothers had a fifty year career in entertainment as a singer, songwriter, band leader, night club performer an...

Leaving Home: a Conducted Tour of Twentieth-Century Music With Simon Rattle

Hall, Michael · 1996 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

London: Faber & Faber, 1996. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Based on the Channel Four television series.

Pianoforte: Its History With Biographical Sketches and Critical Estimates of Its Greatest Players

Fillmore, John Comfort · 1978 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston: Longwood Press, 1978. unabridged republication of the 1884 edition, Light foxing on page foredge & waterstain on top edge of front cover otherwise very good trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Conversations With Mehunin

Dubal, David · 1992 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

My First Forty Years

Domingo, Placido · 1983 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Knopf, 1983. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book/ slight wrinkling otherwise near fine dust jacket.

Toscanini: an Intimate Portrait

Chotzinoff, Samuel · 1956 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY: Knopf, 1956. 1st printing of 1st edition., adhesive residual on front end paper otherwise very good+ hard cover book/ closed tear & edgewear otherwise very good price clipped dust jacket.

Orpheus at Eighty

[Verdi, Giuseppe] Sheean, Vincent · 1958 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY: Random House, 1958. 1st printing of 1st edition., near fine hard cover book/ small chips & closed tears otherwise very good+ dust jacket., The first biography in English of Giuseppe Verdi.

Robert Schumann: 1810-1856

[Schuman, Robert] Maitland, JA Fuller With A Foreword By Francesco Berger · 0 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London: Sampson Low Marston. Small fray at head of spine otherwise very good+ trade hard cover book/ no dust jacket., In original shrinkwrap.

Melba: a Biography

[Melba, Nellie] Herrington, John · 1968 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1968. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book/ closed tears otherwise very good+ dust jacket., Biography of Dame Nellie Melba (with black & white photos).

Madonna Unauthorized

[Madonna] Andersen, Christopher · 1991 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Lenya: a Life

[Lotte, Lenya] Spoto, Daniel · 1989 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston: Little Brown, 1989. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Wife & muse to Kurt Weill, star of his many stage operas, The Three Penny Opera, Mahogonny and The Seven Deadly Sins.

Waging Heavy Peace

Young, Neil · 2012 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY: Blue Rider Press/Penguin, 2012. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket. 4to.

The Oberlin Book of Bandstands

Starr, S Frederick Editor · 1987 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Washington: Preservation Press, 1987. 1st printing of 1st edition., Slight fading on rear cover otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good+ copy in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., A century ago the village bandstand served as a community gathering spot. The town o...

This Business of Global Music Marketing: Global Strategies for Maximizing Your Music's Popularity and Profits

Lathrop, Tad · 2007 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

NY: Billboard Books/Watson-Guptill, 2007. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Today's music market is global but you don't need to be a large business to market globally. Business strategies for cross-border music commerce.

Always Playing

Kennedy, Nigel · 1991 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991. 1st printing of 1st edition, Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Music at Court

Hogwood, Christopher · 1977 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

London: The Folio Society, 1977. Edgewear otherwise a clean good hard cover copy/ no dust jacket., The monarch was expected to compose and was trained to do so. Most monarchs were also musicians or at a minimum expected to encourage the arts, illustrated.

Broken Music

[Sumner, Gordon] Sting · 2003 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY: Dial, 2003. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Rather the traditional autobiography, Sting gives us insight into Sting himself and what makes him tick; 337 pages, illustrated.

Duran Duran: So Close, Yet So far

Maxwell, Sophie · 0 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

. No. 14, A clean fine paperback fan magazine/ no dust jacket., Unpaginated (approximately 26 pages), highly illustrated.

Duran Duran: Thinking Back Looking Ahead

Jensen, Steve · 0 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

A&B Publishing. No. 9, A clean fine paperback fan magazine/ no dust jacket., Unpaginated (approximately 30 pages), richly illustrated.