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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EARLY SECULAR AMERICAN MUSIC (18th Century). Revised and enlarged by William Treat Upton...
New York: Da Capo Press, 1964. Tall octavo, maroon simulated leather and red boards. pp x, xvi, 617. Indexed. Sunning to upper inch of front board, spine lightly darkened, private bookplate inside front cover, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41491More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
BRITTEN AND AUDEN IN THE THIRTIES: The Year 1936. The T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures Delivered at the University of Kent at Canterbury in November 1979.
Edition: First Edition
London: Faber, 1981. Octavo, yellow boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Collaborations between the poet Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11495More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
CALYPSOS, SYMPHONIES AND INCEST.
Edition: First edition
Toronto: Arawak Publishing House, 1974. Orange boards. (iv), 123 pp. Fine in fine jacket. The book is "a hard hitting, carefully constructed indictment of Western European society. The author utilizes the medium of music as a mirror with which to present some startling , disturbing and definitive statements on the status of women, and homosexuality. He shrewdly weaves a strong case against the social divisiveness of Western European music (classical music), in all cultures, and remarkably presents a new refreshing perspective of folk music, modern jazz, and calypso." - jacket flap. Author was born in Barbados and took up the formal study of the violin. After schooling in the USA, including post-graduate study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, he immigrated to Canada in 1972.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 9934More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
"CANTATE DOMINO:" A Hymnal and Chants for Public Worship. Music Composed by Rev. John Black...Revised by Geo. W. Strathy. Second Edition
Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1874. Square octavo. Original black pebble grain cloth decorated in blind, front cover gilt lettered, red page edges, yellow endpapers. pp [2], (viii), [94], [2]. Rear cover has abrasion along two inches of top edge; small chip to bottom edge of rear free endpaper; else fine, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29937More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
Chaliapin: A Critical Biography
Edition: First edition.
New York: Knopf, 1988. Maroon boards. pp (xvi), 630 + plates; indexed, discography. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has short tears to upper inner corner of front panel, VG+ otherwise. Biography of the great Russian basso (opera singer). Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 26409More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
DANSONS A LA RONDE / ROUNDELAYS
Edition: First edition.
Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1963. Quarto, 104 pp, in illustrated card covers. Yellowing to covers, else fine, no owner names. Folk dances and games collected in Canada and New England, with piano arrangements by Maurice Blackburn, English interpretations by Joy Tranter, illustrations by Marjorie Border, and cover by Grace Melvin. NMC Bulletin no. 151, Anthropological Series No. 41. Text is in French and English.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 33398More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
Edition: First printing
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Cloth & boards. pp (x), 326 + plates. Index. Review slip pasted inside front cover, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50762More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Early American Music Engraving and Printing: A History of Music Publishing in America from 1787 to 1825 with Commentary on Earlier and Later Practices
Edition: First Edition
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press / Bibliographical Society of America, 1980. Brown cloth. (xx), 321 pp, indexed, illustrated. Fine copy, no owner marks. Tan dust jacket has spine fading, else fine. An excellent reference work on the subject. Note: over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 25026More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
ELLINGTONIA. The Recorded Music of Duke Ellington and His Sidemen. Third Edition.
Metuchen, NJ: The Institute of Jazz Studeis and The Scarecrow Press, 1988. Quarto, maroon cloth stamped in gilt. [8], xiv, 534 pp. Small soft bruise to outer corner of front cover, else fine, no previous owner marks. A detailed discography. Not issued in dust jacket, I believe. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hard Cover
Book ID: 17386More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
University of Toronto Press, 1982. Third printing. Red cloth. pp. xxix, 1076. 3100 articles, 500 illustrations, index, Covers all genres of music in Canada. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a nick to top spine corner and a one inch tear to front panel, VG+ otherwise. 4 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51014More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
EUBIE BLAKE
Edition: First printing
New York: Schirmer, 1979. Brown cloth. pp (xviii), 214. Discography, filmology, and index at rear. Canadian review slip pasted in at front, else a VG copy. Price-clipped jacket has chips and rubbing at head of spine; good. Biography of the noted African-American song writer.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43738More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
FOR THOSE IN LOVE. Poems (inscribed)
Edition: First edition.
New York: The Richmond Organization, 1965. Grey cloth and maroon boards. (59), pp. Fine in fine jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For Gerry Morris with my warmest and best wishes. Mitchell Parish". A collection of poems, most of which originally appeared in Walter Winchell' s column. Mitchell Parish came from Shreveport, Louisiana as a youngster to the Lower East Side of New York and became a very successful song lyricist. He wrote the lyrics for such hits as "Stardust", "Deep Purple", "Moonlight Serenade", "Stars Fell on Alabama", "Stairway to the Stars". "Sophisticated Lady", "Sweet Lorraine", "Ruby", "Volare", and others.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 24304More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
GLENN GOULD. Music & Mind.
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1984. Third printing of the second edition, revised. Octavo, card covers. pp (xiv), 192 + plates. Notes, bibliography, discography, index. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45528More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
HAYDEN, MOZART AND METASTASIO. Translated, Introduced & Edited by Richard N. Coe
Edition: First US issue
New York: Grossman, 1972. Red cloth. pp xxxii, 370, [2] + plates. Musty odour but no damp marks, else fine. Dust jacket has a short tear to rear panel, slight rubbing to corners, VG otherwise. His first book in its first modern translation (original was in 1814).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50212More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
HOUSE OF PLEASURE
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 46162More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
JAN IN 35 PIECES: a memoir in music
Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2019. Third printing. Glossy card covers. pp (280). A wee bit leaned, else fine. Hampton is an English / Canadian cellist.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 52784More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
JAZZ LIVES. Photographs by John Reeves. 100 Portraits in Jazz
Edition: First paper edition
Toronto: Stewart House / McClelland & Stewart, 1994. Glossy card covers. pp (14), 216. Small soft corner crease to front cover, else a fine copy. 1.25 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53106More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
LADY SINGS THE BLUES
New York: Lancer Books, 1965. First Lancer printing, mass market paperback. 1969 ink date at front, VG+ otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45960More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
LARRY GORMAN: The Man Who Made the Songs.
Frederiction, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, (copyright 1993). 2nd printing of this reprint (first ed. was in 1964). Pictorial card covers. Slight spine sunning, else fine, no previous owner marks. Story of the Prince Edward Island-born lumberman and satirical song writer who did his logging in the Miramichi region of New Brunswick and in Maine.
Condition: Book: Fine, Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 16973More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
LETTERS OF SAMUEL WESLEY TO MR. JACOBS, organist of Surrey Chapel, related to the introduction into this country of the works of John Sebastian Bach. Edited by his daughter Eliza Wesley
London and New York: Hinrichsen Edition Limited, no date (1958). Facsimile reprint of the edition of the Partridge, 1875, edition. Octavo, card covers, pp (6), 50. Portraits, facsimiles. VG copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47679More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96