Patterns of Protestant Church Music.
N.p. Duke University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey leatherette, dust jacket. viii, 219pp. Very good/very good. Minorest of jacket edgewear. A tight and lovely early printing. More
N.p. Duke University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey leatherette, dust jacket. viii, 219pp. Very good/very good. Minorest of jacket edgewear. A tight and lovely early printing. More
Rockford: Taggart Enterprises, n.y. Paperback. 4to (8½" X 11"). (4pp). Illustrations in blue (front and rear wrappers). Very good. Lightly age toned. Sheet music for the official song for Illinois' third largest city, undated but typographically clearly a 1970s-80s production (confirmed be pencilled "10-2-81" date at upper right of front..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and blue paper over boards, slipcase with paper label. 405pp. Color illustrations. Very good/good plus. Spine very slightly soiled and spine lettering slightly rubbed; slipcase archivally mended, but overall sound and attractive. First edition of this large collection of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1953]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and lavender cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 244pp. Very good/very good. Jacket edgeworn, with several archivally closed (on verso) edge tears. Tight, attractive first edition. More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 93pp. Numerous color illustrations, marbled endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition. A book too hard to describe -- thus, to quote from the front jacket flap: "It is a massive epic on a jewellike..... More
New York: Rizzoli, (1988). Hardcover. 8vo. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 240pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A superb, tight, perfect copy. From the collection of musicologist and conductor/ director Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94). More
Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. xi, 279pp. Errata slip tipped to half-title page. Illustrations, musical notations. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgewear; couple of upper page corners of this rather acidic-papered text chipped. Tight, nice first edition with nice associations: Front pastedown bears the custom..... More
Stanford: Stanford University, 1950. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth. xii, 310pp. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition of this handsomely illustrated volume, tight and attractive. Printed by the noted War Ritchie Press. More
New York: Dover Publications, (1962). Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green glazed pictorial wrappers. 147pp, (7pp ads). Illustrations. Near fine. A tight and handsome first of this edition, part of this publisher's "Dover Opera Guide and Libretto Series." From the collection of conductor and musicologist Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94), with his ownership..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 304pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. Superb, tight first edition of this memoir by the fifteenth general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1990-2006) -- handsomely signed and inscribed by him in black ballpoint..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1965. Paperback. Translation and introduction by Stewart Robb. 12mo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. xxii, 151pp. Very good. Bit of mild edgewear and light scuffing, but overall a tight and nice first paperback edition of this particular translation of the German opera libretto, presented in..... More
Pasadena: Ward Ritchie Press, 1978. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 466pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Handsome first edition. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Hardcover. 4to. Yellow and blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 315pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and couple of small archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears; abrasion on corner of front jacket panel. Second printing of this overview -- tight, clean, attractive. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1935. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth. 272pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, music notations, decorative endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned. Tight, nice first edition. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [2005]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 406pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A superb and tight first edition. More
New York: Atheneum, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple and yellow cloth, dust jacket. xv, 295pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Handsome first edition. More
Fairport, NY: Rochester Music Publishers, 1977. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers. viii, 58pp. Near fine. Slight bit of age toning to outer wrappers (only), else a tight, clean superb fifth printing of the second edition of this popular reference work. From the collection of musicologist and conductor/director Paul Clinton..... More
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1971. Hardcover. 4to. Full grey leatherette. xvi, 124pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Near fine. First edition, Number 2 of this publisher's "Tricentennial Edition" series. Eckhard (1757-1833) was a German-born American church organist in Charleston, Virginia. From the library of musicologist and conductor/director..... More
Nashville: Adjett Productions, Publishers, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 343pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with small chips at spine tail. Tight, attractive first edition of this memoir by the illegitimate daughter of the Country Western legend, born just..... More
N.p. N.p., n.y. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff salmon wrappers. Pp. 337-356. Illustrations. Very good. First separate printing of this essay by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's famed curator of musical instruments -- an offprint from the "Metropolitan Museum Journal." Front wrapper notes, "Reprinted from the Metropolitan Museum Journal on the..... More
New York: Lee Furman, [1939]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xvii, 480pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/good. Jacket heavily, expertly and archivally mended on verso, thus complete and fairly attractive despite edgewear, a few edge chips and light soiling; binding a bit unevenly sunned. Tight and nice..... More
London: Sanctuary Publishing, 1996. Hardcover. Square small 4to. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. 264pp. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition, tight and handsome, of what the front board (only) subtitles "The story of the Big Bands." More
New York: Barricade Books, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. 304pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1965]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 209pp. Near fine/very good. Nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown; faint jacket edgewear and bit of rubbing, with single edge chip. Tight and attractive first edition of these forty ballad..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [1986]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 378pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of mild edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition of this overview. From the collection of conductor and musicologist Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94). More