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.

London: Faber, 1981. Octavo, yellow boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Collaborations between the poet Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Cloth & boards. pp (x), 326 + plates. Index. Review slip pasted inside front cover, else fine in fine jacket.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Random House, 1957. Beige boards. Near fine in near fine price-clipped jacket, no owner names. Starred Ethel Merman. "Mutual Admiration Society" was one of the tunes.

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).

Paris: Marquerie Frères, 1839. Vocal score with piano accompaniment. pp [2], (4, including engraved title), 232, [2]. Sprinkled page edges. Bound in contemporary dark brown half leather and brown cloth with embossed floral design, spine with five raised bands, gilt ornamented, gilt lettered. Bit of rubbing to spine ends and outer corners nicely touched up; a few very light spots to front cover; occasional tanning and foxing in text. Light damp stain to upper outer corner of engraved title and early leaves; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Inside front cover is the ticket of R.& A. Miller, Book-binders, Places d'Armes Hill, Montreal. An early edition of The Barber of Seville, which was first performed in 1816.

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.

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.

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.