New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. Hardcover. Introduction by H. Wiley Hitchcock. 4to. Quarter green leatherette and green paper over boards. (5pp), 93pp. Near fine. Tight and handsome first edition of Volume 12 in editor Hitchcock's superb "Earlier American Music" series, being facsimiles of twenty-two different Foster sheet musics published..... More
New York: Random House, 1946. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 222pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Ownership label on front flyleaf. Reprint edition. Nicely illustrated volume of sheet music for fifty of Foster's best-known tunes, supplemented with anecdotes regarding each song's..... More
New York: Stein and Day, 1974. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and yellow cloth, dust jacket. 224pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Tight, handsome first edition. More
New York: Random House, 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and cream paper over boards, dust jacket. xviii, 441pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Discreet circular blind-embossed ownership stamp on inner flyleaf. Tight, handsome first U.S. edition. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. xi, 564pp. Musical notations. Very good/very good. Single archivally-closed (on verso) jacket edge tear. Tight, clean second printing. Tipped to the front flyleaf is an envelope addressed in Fuld's hand containing a brief ANS ("Thank You" and initials)..... More
Philadelphia: Musical Americana, 1957. Hardcover. Folio. Blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt-edged pictorial illustration on front board. (208pp). Numerous full-page illustrations. Near fine. First edition of this important checklist of Foster first editions, tight and handsome. The title pages of each composition -- almost 200 -- are..... More
New York: Elizabeth L. Gallagher & Co., 1930. Hardcover. 4to. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and decorations. (Ca. 50pp). Very good. Almost, bot not quite, a "Near fine," as it's tight and bright and lovely, with faint aging to endpapers only. Handsome first edition of this compilation of..... More
N.p. Cassa di Risparmio di Parma, 1985. Hardcover. 4to. White cloth, dust jacket, card stock slipcase. 239pp. Extensive illustrations (many color), pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine/very good. Trifling wear to slipcase, else a superb and tight first edition of this volume in the "Le Capitali della Musica" series. From the library of..... More
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 128pp. Numerous color illustrations, floral endpapers. Near fine/near fine. First edition. More
Charleston, WV: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1985. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. viii, 116pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Attractive first edition of this largely-pictorial history, with a floppy 45 rpm record in a sleeve tipped to verso of rear cover. More
New York: Broude Brothers, [1967]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth. 118pp, (2pp). Very good. Binding a tad age toned. Tight, clean, handsome first edition of this facsimile reprint of the rare 1708 Venetian first edition of this important treatise on harmonies by the Italian composer (1668-1727). Even this facsimile edition..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, [1974]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 383pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and handsome fourth printing of the revised, enlarged 1947 second edition of this 1936 classic. More
Cincinnati: Geo. D. Newhall & Co., 1878. Hardcover. Wide 24mo. Brown cloth spine with green pictorial paper over boards. 157pp, (3pp). Good plus. Boards quite age toned, rubbed and scuffed, though internally tight and very good. Decent first edition of this significant and very uncommon hymn collection. Interestingly, though not..... More
New York: The New York Historical Society, 1940. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. xxii, 470pp. Largely uncut. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, marbled endpapers. Near fine. Dust jacket front panel survives, archivally mounted to matching brown stock to create complete jacket (Brodart encased), with diecut oval spine..... More
Norwich, VT: Terra Nova Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy and tan paper over boards, dust jacket. xii, 128pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Tight, handsome first edition of these recollections of "Sasha," the famed violinist. More
Edinburgh: Wood and Co., 1856. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full brown calf, heavily gilt-embossed, gilt spine and compartments, inner dentelles. ix, 168pp; 188pp. All edges gilt and with decorative tooling. Sewn-in brown silk page marker. Very good. Binding a bit edgeworn (mainly along hinges) but tight and attractive and handleable, with..... More
Alameda, CA: Heartcraft Court, n.y., [ca. 1925]. Paperback. 4to. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. 12pp. Near fine. Eighth edition ("Special Personal Souvenir Edition") of this popular trilogy of three tunes with music and lyrics by this violinist and composer: "The Heart of My Opal," "My Song" and "Now, It's Up to..... More
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., n.y., [ca. 1870?]. Hardcover. 4to. Original purple blind-embossed cloth, gilt. 68pp. Text endpapers. Very good. Circular blind-embossed bookstore stamp on tite page -- probably shop from which this volume was purchased when new. Bit of edgewear, but basically a fairly tight and attractive copy of..... More
New York: S. T. Gordon, 1846. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth spine and green pictorial paper over boards. 101pp. Line drawings. Fair. Edgewear, chipping and browning of pages; some small markings. Ownership signature on rear pastedown. Edition not ascertainable. Includes a supplement containing a treatise on the violin by Jacob Augustus..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 281pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Some jacket edgewear, with chip at head of jacket spine. Tight, clean first edition of this account of Italian actress Eleanora Dusa and poet Gabriele d'Annunzio -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front..... More
London: Proteus, [1980]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green paper over boards, dust jacket. 197pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Slightest bit of jacket wear. A tight and nice first edition of this biography of the English countertenor (1912-79) who specialized in old English music. From the collection of conductor and..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. xi, 324pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First U.K. edition, tigt and attractive. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 191pp. Numerous illustrations. Errata slip tipped in. Near fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition. More
[New York]: Thames and Hudson, [1988]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy paper over boards, dust jacket. 232pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition -- tight, clean, quite attractive. From the collection of conductor and musicologist -- and medieval music scholar -- Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94). More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 451pp. Illustrations. Near fine. very good. Slight bit of mild jacket wear. Tight and handsome first edition of this superb study. From the collection of musicologist and conductor/director Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94), with his flamboyant ownership..... More