Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Language of Music

Cooke, Deryck · 1959

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Oxford University Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities, sunning to especially spine, a bit of discoloratio...

The Singing Game

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie · 1985

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. The tome is based on three decades' worth of research into playground games that ...

American Composers Alliance Bulletin, Volume IV, No. 3, 1955

Daniel, Oliver, ed. · 1955

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, American Composers Alliance, 1955. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, housed in a plastic sleeve, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Housed in a s...

In My Harem

Berlin, Irving · 0

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., . First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no copies available apparently. Vintage sheet music illustrated by Gene Buck in tri-tone illustration, housed inside a 20" tall x 1...

In Monterey

Williams, Harry · 1925

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

, Charles N. Daniels, 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no copies available apparently. Vintage sheet music devoted to a young lady, Miss Billie Burke. Good condition, duotone illustration, housed insid...

The Angel God Sent from Heaven

Smith, Paul A and Robert Levenson · 1918

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, Massachusetts, Jack Mendelsohn Music, 1918. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Vintage sheet music devoted to a song about a W.W.I. Red Cross nurse to whom the song is dedicated. Good condition, duotone illustration, housed inside a 20" tall x ...

When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France

Alfred Bryan, Cliff Hess, and Edgar Leslie · 1918

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Waterson, Berlin, & Snyder, 1918. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Vintage sheet music in Near Fine condition, duotone illustration (black and yellow), housed inside a 20" tall x 16" wide matte-board, with a smudge on the left board. Comple...

Ocean Melodies, and Seamen's Companion, a Collection of Hymns and Music

Stowe, Phineas · 1866

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Boston, Phineas Stowe, 1866. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Stated Twelfth Edition exemplar of a popular compendium of sea shanties and nautical lyrical ritual, assembled and published by Phinease Stowe, Pastor at First Baptist Bethel Church, including b...

Under a Fool's Cap

Henry, Daniel, Jr. · 1884

$56.00 (€50.81 | £42.39 | ¥8,942)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, inscribed warmly to "Farny," "who was at one time to have also found shelter [under a fool's cap], this capital decoration is affectionately offered by the presen...

Ballads and Songs

Thackeray, William Makepeace · 1896

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Variant binding, being an extremely handsome rebind of a First Edition of Thackeray's songs and ballads. New decorated endpapers front and rear, quite fine. Light brown linen cloth over b...

American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots

Slobin, Mark, ed. · 2002

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. A fine collec...

The Life and Work of Sir Arthur Sullivan: Composer for Victorian England

Allen, Reginald · 1975

$16.80 (€15.24 | £12.72 | ¥2,683)

New York / Boston, The Pierpont Morgan Library / David R. Godine Publisher, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in light brown linen cloth, sharp and dist...

A New History of Jazz

Shipton, Alyn · 2001

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Continuum , 2001. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A range of sharp and distinct black-and-white photographs augment this fine social history of music and jazz, a fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interi...

The Gnawa and Mohamed Tabal

Mana, Abdelkader, in collaboration with Georges Lapassade, Frederic Damgaard, Abdellah Akharraz and Abdelkabir Namir · 1998

$92.00 (€83.47 | £69.64 | ¥14,691)

Casablanca, Morocco, LAK International, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available currently on-line. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the...

Musikalisches Theater in Hamburg: Versuch Uber Die Dramaturgie Der Oper

Freund, Hans and Wilhelm Reinking · 1938

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Hamburg, Germany, Hans Christians, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. German language social history of musical theater in Hamburg, Germany, bound in quarto hardcover format, decorative floral-patterned wallpaper over boards, sharp, barely abraded paper...

Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Dancing Tunes and Ring Tunes

Jekyll, Walter, ed. · 1966

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Dover Publications, 1966. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A fine, important work of ethnomusicology, from the personal library of Dr. Art Lehmann, author of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturd...

The Romance of the Mendelssohns

Petitpierre, Jacques · 1947

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Denis Dobson, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine and compelling biography of a marriage, penned by a family intimate, Jacques Petitpierre, between the composer Felix Mendelsohnn Bartholdy and his bride Cecile Jeanrenaud Bartholdy. Bound in a...

Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Essays

Berger, Karol and Anthony Newcomb, eds. · 2005

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,449)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Department of Music, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library,...

Frontier Fiddler: The Life of a Northern Arizona Pioneer, Kenner C. Kartchner

Shumway, Larry V., ed. · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 1990. First Edition. . . Farming, poking cows, trading horses, working for the Forest Service; in the later trade particular his fiddle ability allowed him to break down barriers. The book includes 17 original tunes, lyrics and mus...

Briefe Aus Den Jahren 1833 Bis 1847 Von Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy. Nebst Einem Verzeichnisse Der Sã¤Mmtlichen Musikalischen Compositionen Von Felx Mendelsohn Bartholdy Zusammengestellt Von Dr. Julius Rietz. Zweiter Band.

Mendelsohn Bartholdy, Paul; Julius Rietz, Carl Mendelsohn Bartholdy, ed. · 1964

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Leipzig, Germany, Hermann Mendelsohn, 1964. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. German language text. Bou...