Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers

Moisenko, Rena · 1949

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Meridian Book Ltd., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This volume, penned by a long-interested follower of Soviet music and musicians, expands upon a 1942 pamphlet of the same name. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover co...

Bartok and His World

Laki, Peter, ed. · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. a fine and loving, scholarly homage to the Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok, edited by and contributed to by Peter Laki (who also translates several pieces from the origi...

The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler-Werfe

Keegan, Susanne · 1992

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Viking Penguin, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A readable, accessible volume of biography and social history regarding the wife of Gustav Mahler and wife of and mistress to other famous men in the arts and humanities, from Kokoschka to ...

The Legacy of Sebastian Virdung: The Frederick R. Selch Collection Pertaining to the History of Musical Instruments

Selch, Frederick R. and H. Reynolds Butler, with additional commentary by Laurence Libin · 2005

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,576)

New York, The Grolier Club, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Designed lavishly by Jerry Kelly, printed by the Studley Press on Mohawk Superfine paper, this is one of an edition of 500 copies, bound handsomely in illustrated tan heavy card stock wraps,...

Priape, Opera En Musique 1694 Piece Attribuee a Blessebois, Reimprimee Textuellement, Avec Fac Simile Des Vignettes Et Une Notice

Blessebois, Pierre-Corneille · 1868

$156.00 (€141.54 | £118.08 | ¥24,903)

Paris, Jules Gay, 1868. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. The Notice is by Paul Lacroix (who went by the name Pierre Dufour, author of a magisterial work on prostitution). Reprinted for Jules Gay for the series: Gayetes Francoises. "L'Attribution a Corneille ...

Du Principe Essentiel de L'Harmonie

Marchand, Alexandre · 1872

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,132)

Paris, France, Imprimerie Nationale, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A most handsomely bound volume in marbled paper over boards, quarter-leather, raised bands to spine, gilt tooled title and author to spine, silk linen ribbon bookmark laid in. Beauti...

Modern Street Ballads

Ashton, John · 1888

$184.00 (€166.94 | £139.27 | ¥29,373)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being an at least Fair condition exemplar, being Number 94 of only 100 copies printed in the Large Paper edition, thus a First Edition Thus....