Hardcover. London: Henry G. Bohn, [ca. 1850]. Octavo; unpaginated. Rebacked with original cloth retained to front and back, with new endpapers. Covers edgeworn with bumping to corners, nudging to spine ends, and some general smudging and a few runs to cloth. Pages lightly to moderately foxed, but unmarked. Binding is..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Small quarto; publisher's boards in matching photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [6],148pp.; color photographic plate, additional half-tone photographs and drawings by Brock throughout; original recorded introduction mounted to rear pastedown. Jacket heavily worn and rather soiled with a number..... More
Text on poster: XX Krakowski Festiwal Jazzowy // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo // DLA ELI [for Eli]. Date: 1975. Height x width: 84cm x 59cm (33” x 23.25”). Printing information: lower left corner: Drukarnia Narodowa, zam. 514/75. 2000. S-75-7768. Condition: No visual flaws. Mleczko made his reputation..... More
Coimbra: Imprensa Litteraria, 1866. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); contemporary red pebbled cloth over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; xxiii,[1],204pp. Boards scuffed with exposure at extremities, corners bumped, hair-line split to top inch of upper spine joint, recent bookseller ticket accomplished in manuscript mounted to front pastedown, contemporary ownership rubberstamp and signature..... More
![Item #11217 A Decade of Music [Signed]. B H. Haggin](/pictures/thumb/11217.jpg?v=1633698595)
New York: Horizon Press, 1973. No edition statement, per publisher's methods. Signed by Haggin on front free endpaper with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 256 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Red topstain. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with some toning and general rubbing. Boards..... More
London: G. Scott, for J. Robson, 1770. First English Language Edition. Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); full contemporary calf, red gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges stained yellow; collated and complete: [A]-2F8; [*]2 A-S8 TU8 X-2D8 E2; [*]2 A-2E8 (final two leaves blank); folding plate of sheet music in rear of Vol..... More
Paris: Alexandre Cadot, 1856. First Edition. Small octavo (16cm.); contemporary brown calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers; 320pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities with some exposure, chiefly at corners, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and slightly latter rubber-stamps to title page a few internal leaves, stock uniformly..... More
Elizabeth, NJ: 1956. Large quarto scrapbook (33x26cm.); black paper over paste-paper boards; [27]ll. filled to two-thirds completion. Boards rather scuffed and toned, leaves brittle with shallow chips and tears to margins not affecting contents, preliminary leaf separated but present; overall Good to Very Good, contents remaining clean and sound... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket, brown topstain; [2],xi,[1],344,xxpp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven (7) leaves of illus. Some moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears and small chips, spine panel a shade toned, later (1990) ownership..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; xvii, 440pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with over speckled white boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light rubbing at corners. Boards are square with bumping to corners and spine ends and some foxing along top..... More
Lanham, MD: Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey and The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996. First Edition. Octavo. 155 pp. Gray boards stamped in black and gilt. No dust jacket. Light scuffing and rubbing to boards, binding is sound, and pages unmarked. More
[Nashville: JTG of Nashville, 1994.] First Edition. Oblong quarto; publisher's staplebound pictorial wrappers; 63pp.; color illus. throughout. General wear from handling, tiny chip mid-spine fold, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Uncommon educational booklet reproducing the lyrics and piano music of songs that "celebrate the colorful beauty of..... More
Text on poster: XVIII Miȩdzynarodowy Festiwal Jazzowy // 75 // 18th International Jazz Festival // Jazz Jamboree // Warsaw // October 23-26 1975. Date: 1975. Height x width: 38.25cm x 66.5cm. Printing information:lower left corner: PZG Bydg. 2377/75 B-113. Condition: Bottom edge shows close about six 0.5cm closed tears, and..... More
Text on poster: Polskie Stowarzyszenie Jazzowe Oddzial w Krakowie + trumpet logo // 20 Krakowski Festiwal Jazzowy // 27-28.X.1975 // Parady Orkiestr 1899 // + 18 caricatural icons (à la R. Crumb) of American jazz influences, each labeled with year dates, artist names, and American jazz culture terminology. Note that..... More
![Item #21318 Terra: Ein Symbol. Prolog / Drei Spiele / Epilog [Inscribed and Signed]. Felix...](/pictures/thumb/21318.jpg?v=1677333047)
Potsdam: Müller & Kiepenheuer, [1933]. First Trade Edition. Thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's paper-covered boards in white pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black; 578pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, spine toned, old tape repair to rear panel and jacket verso, boards a bit soiled and scuffed with some brief..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1904. First Thus. Octavo. 729 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Bound in full morocco, six compartments to spine, gilt tooling to boards, spine, and dentelles; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Bookplate of a Danford Barney to front pastedown and additional ownership stamp..... More
![Item #10119 The Hornes: An American Family [Signed by the Author and by Lena Horne]. Gail Lumet...](/pictures/thumb/10119.jpg?v=1644001734)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Fourth Printing. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "To Edna -- Best wishes -- Gail Lumet Buckley," and by Lena Horne underneath with addition "& her mother, Lena Horne." Octavo; xii, 262pp. Photo-vignette dust jacket with $18.95 price intact;..... More
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Symphony, 2011. First Edition. Quarto (12.25" x 9.25"); [x], 212pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket over black cloth with silver lettering. Jacket shows a small, closed tear at top front near spine, tugging at spine ends, and some rubbing along top back. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound..... More
![Item #12614 Excursions in Musical History [Signed by Both]. Helen, Clarence Dickinson](/pictures/thumb/12614.jpg?v=1646847795)
New York: The H.W. Gray Co., 1917. First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Signed by both authors without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; x, 209pp. Fifteen plates including frontis with tissue guard, all present. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Boards are rubbed at corners and spine ends, with..... More
![Item #10245 Artists in Music of Today [Signed by All Three Contributors]. Helen L. Kaufmann, Eva...](/pictures/thumb/10245.jpg?v=1627407605)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. First Edition. Quarto (30cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket, dark blue topstain; 111pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit toned, marginal chipping occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, faint damp staining along spine edge of front jacket panel; cloth also a...... More
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. First Edition. Thick octavo (23.25cm.); publisher's tan pictorial cloth printed in blue and black; xx616pp.; music and illus. throughout. Very slight lean to spine, else Fine. Revision of the author's thesis, 1978. Forms part of the series Studies in Musicology. More
London: Marcus Ward & Company Limited, [ca. 1888]. Presumed First Trade Edition. Two quarto volumes bound in one. [102], [4], 66 pp. Illustrations and decorations in terra cotta and black by Crane throughout first volume; sheet music to volume II. Bound in publisher's cloth decorated in gilt and red. Leather..... More
London: Boosey and Hawkes Ltd., 1951. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow staplebound printed wrappers; 60pp. Wrappers a bit toned along extremities, brief residue to upper cover from previously removed sticker, else Very Good and sound. Libretto only of Stravinsky's English-language opera inspired by Hogarth's suite of paintings and prints..... More
![Item #14652 Loving Mad Tom: Bedlamite Verses of the XVI and XVII Centuries [Limited Edition]....](/pictures/thumb/14652.jpg?v=1670423945)
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 [but 1928]. First Edition, Limited to 375 copies of which this is no. 227. Large, slim quarto; publisher's parchment over green pictorial boards, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; 110pp.; full-page illus. and sheet music throughout. Parchment rather discolored from dust-soil, brief..... More
Severn, MD: Media History Press, 2016. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 303pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly in color. Light edge wear, corners very gently tapped, else Near Fine. More