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Edinburgh: Rob't Purdie IN FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION, with mylar jackets. SCARCE. Circa 1820. First Edition, with address of Publisher as 70 Princes Street. viii, 4pp, 108pp, [2] 4pp, 102pp; [2] 4pp, 108pp, [2] 4pp, 104pp. Uniformly bound in 3/4 leather and marbled paper, raised bands on spines, title vignettes. Covers rubbed, corner wear, wear to upper/lower backstrip edges, lacks ffp's, interior foxing, occasional notation, light corner damp mark first few leaves in one volume. With ARMORIAL BOOKPLATES of Charles A. Ward. ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT. With musical notation.

New York: Mutual Music Society, 1943. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard cover, red cloth boards with beautiful bright gilt lettering on front and on spine, Fine. Very little rubbing on edges and mild bumping on top and bottom of spine. Binding tight with a little give. Pages ever so slightly yellowed but clean. 116 pages. AUTHOR HAS SIGNED on free front page "SINCERELY GLENN MILLER" in black fountain pen. Not stated but assumed first edition, first printing. ALSO INCLUDED are much sought after 2 MUSICAL SCORES loosely inserted: "I'M THRILLED" first page has edge chipping due to page being larger than others and minor yellowing, and "SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMEN" stamped "Bradbury Wood Ltd. 142, Charing Cross Road, WC2" (London, England). Both scores are in Very Good condition. B&W photographs and many musical arrangements. Included are 2 small catalogues from Bron's Orchestral Service, London. No dust jacket as issued. Book issued one year before… Read More

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author + Others. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard cover, second printing January 1940, black cloth boards with silver design on front cover and silver lettering on spine, Good. Some scratches and indented spots on front and back covers. Some wrinkling on back cover. Some edgewear, especially on board corners and top/bottom of spine. Binding tight but has a little give. Pages yellowed but mostly clean except for a few pages that have some spots on the bottom. JAM-PACKED WITH AUTOGRAPHS on inside front cover, free front pages, half title page and back free pages. These include: HARRY JAMES (clipped, formerly taped, tape removed but stains remain, now glued); HENNY YOUNGMAN (clipped, glued to page) signed in red pencil: "To Jeanette All the Best Henny Youngman"; JACK ___ (illegible in pencil); MARTHA TILTON (in red pencil); RUBINOFF (in red pencil); GENE KRUPA (in black ink); TOMMY DORSEY (in pencil); JESS STACY (in… Read More

New York: Harms, 1931. Sheet music. Good. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original sheet music of the hit song SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the cover in fountain pen by Singer-Actor-Composer-Bandleader RUSS COLUMBO "To Paul, with sincere appreciation, Russ" Bottom of cover has small name stamp of previous owner, and pencil notation of "1931" otherwise in Good condition. Columbo died young under mysterious circumstances. Rare one of a kind item..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This Targ Edition is limited to 150 copies signed by Mr. W. D. Snodgrass. Decorative paper covered boards has a paper paste down on front cover. Original translucent glassine dust jacket. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Deckle page edges. Italian & English text. Music; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 26 pages .

Peterborough, NH: McGraw-Hill, 1980. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published Peterborough, NH: McGraw-Hill, 1980, first printing. 8vo., 7 1/2" x 9 1/4", 235pp., illustrated with color and b/w plates. A seminal work by a pioneer in computer graphics and cinema techniques. Near fine, clean and bright, in a very good dust jacket with edgewear and a short, closed tear. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

1 page. Octavo (ca. 168 x 122 mm). Dated Thursday evening. On mourning stationery. In French (with translation). "I have to attend [?Louis] Laloy's premiere; naturally that is tomorrow, on Friday ... Would you change the enclosed tickets for Saturday? Thanks again ..." Slightly worn and browned; creased at folds and upper outer corner of final blank folio; small rust stain from paper clip to inner margin of final folio, not affecting text. "One of the most important musicians of his time, [Debussy's] harmonic innovations had a profound influence on generations of composers. He made a decisive move away from Wagnerism in his only complete opera Pelléas et Mélisande, and in his works for piano and for orchestra he created new genres and revealed a range of timbre and colour which indicated a highly original musical aesthetic." François Lesure and Roy Howat in Grove Music Online. "Laloy [1874-1944] was a noted defender of contemporary French music and was a close friend of, and mediator between,… Read More

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. 12mo., ix, (iii), (13)-203, 12 pp., with 12 pages of the publisher's advertisements at the end. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth with the title and floral decoration on the spine in gilt. Spine sunned, with lettering fading. Small area of discoloration on the rear board, near the spine's foot. Light foxing to the preliminaries. Previous owner's name, 1857 date and town in ink on the front end paper; name and 1857 date on the title page. Internally very clean and bright. Very Good. *** First appearance of the Star-Spangled Banner in book form. The name and town of the previous owner is Thomas Cowan of Chapel Hill, NC. The Cowan family is a prominent North Carolina Family, and he is likely the son of the Cowan's of Wood Grove Plantation, in Rowan County, NC. Thomas Cowan was a graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1857, and died during the Civil War (See… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Fine. First edition. Limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by Yoko Ono. Fine, virtually as new. Blue cloth with silver stamping housed in publisher's beige slip case with printed title label; with drawing by John Lennon in an envelope laid in. Signed by Yoko Ono on the limitation page.

Signed by author and members of Glen Miller's Wartime Band. Preface by Nat Peck. Includes a day-by-day chronology spanning June 28, 1944 to July 28, 1945, and an appendix listing sound recordings by the band both for the U.S. Government and the public. Black and white photographs interspersed throughout. Brown cloth with gilt particulars to spine. Dust jacket protected in mylar. [xvi], 360 pp. [viii] 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches.

Newport, RI: Board of Directors, Newport Folk Festival, 1959. RARE program for the First Newport Folk Festiaval, 24 pp. featuring daily programs and two artist biographies with black and white photos per page, Introduction by Billy Faier, editor and publisher of CARAVAN magazine. In original stapled pictorial wrappers, Very Good, foxing and slight discoloration to wrappers. Featured artists included are: Pete Seeger, Odetta, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Josh White, The New Lost City Ramblers, Memphis Slim, The Stanley Brothers, The Kingston Trio, Earl Scruggs, Jean Ritchie, and Bo Diddley, among others. . First Printing. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers . Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Berkeley: Undermine Press, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 60pp, stapled wrappers. The scarce 1967 rock and roll issue of this underground poetry magazine from Berkeley. Includes Charles Bukowski, Fugs lyrics and an essay on rock by Tuli Kupferberg, an early poem entitled The Grateful Dead by Ron Silliman, plus an ad for The Mojo Navigator R&R News and other period content. A bit of cover soil, no markings.

4° (mm 185x135); cc. LXXIIII. Caratteri gotici; titolo e anno impressi in rosso, entro cornice silografica a quattro scomparti e con bellissimo legno centrale; al verso dell'ultima carta, marca tipografica silografica. Legatura ottocentesca in mezza pelle. Bell'esemplare, nonostante i margini non amplissimi.
Very rare edition of the earlier Spanish sentimental romance, originally published in Valencia in 1513.
About the authorship of Qüestión de amor, one of the most intriguing among the Spanish sentimental romances:
"In a series of articles on the authorship of the earlier sentimental romance Qüestión de amor, I suggested first that the anonymous author was a member of the aristocratic Cardona family (1994a) basing this attribution on a series of clues deeply imbedded within the text itself – in other words, evidence interior to the work. Furthermore, I suggested that the author was the poet Alonso de Cardona whose work was found in the Cancionero General of 1511 (1994b and 2006). Finally,… Read More

Quartet Books Ltd, 1983. 1st Ed. Paperback. Very Good. 10x8x0. FIRST QUARTET BOOKS EDITION SOFTCOVER published in 1983. Some shelfwear on the covers including light creasing and edgewear; please examine my photos. Text and colorful illustrations are clean and bright. Expedited and international shipping are welcome.

Quartet Books Ltd, 1983. 1st Ed. Paperback. Very Good. 10x8x0. FIRST QUARTET BOOKS EDITION SOFTCOVER published in 1983. Some shelfwear on the covers including light creasing and edgewear; please examine my photos. Text and colorful illustrations are clean and bright. Expedited and international shipping are welcome.