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Gershwin, George.
The New York Times Gershwin Years in Song.
Introduction by Edward Jablonski and Lawrence Stewart. New York: Quadrangle /
The New York Times Book Co., 1973. 4to (large book). 323 Index. Photographs.
Illustrations. Music.
Contains lyrics and piano scores of many Gershwin songs. Very good hardcover
with cloth spine and ring binding in slightly worn and torn dust jacket.
ISBN 0812903684. #22547. $22.50
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Guthrie, Woody.
American Folksong.
Illustrations by York Cunningham, Jr. and Woody Guthrie. New York: Moe Asch of
DISC Company of America, 1947. 48 pages. Illustrations.
Includes an autobiographical sketch and song lyrics. Good stiff pictorial
wrappers (soft cover), covers slightly rubbed and worn, stapled spine is
fragile, rear cover creased, newspaper burn on page 1. #26710. $90
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Hattori, Ryutaro, compiler.
Traditional Folk Songs of Japan with Piano Accompaniment.
Piano accompaniment arranged by Masao Shinohara. Verses translated into English
by Iwao Matsuhara. Explanatory notes by Ryutaro Hattori. Tokyo, Japan:
Ongaku-No-Tomo Sha Corp., 1966. 1st printing. 223 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations. Music.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #23891. $60
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Hodgins, Gordon W.
The Broadway Musical: A Complete LP Discography.
Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1980. v, 183 pages. Indexes. Includes an
alphabetical list of Broadway musicals, indexes by composer, book and lyrics
writer, performer, song, composer-lyricist, and a major record company
sequential index.
Very good hardcover. ISBN 0810813432. #23988. $25
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Houser, Roy.
Catalogue of Chamber Music for Woodwind Instruments.
New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. Facsimile reprint. Small 4to (medium-large
book). 159 pages. Index. Bibliography. Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series.
First published by the Indiana University School of Music in 1962.
Exlibrary. Very good hardcover, spine label, rear pocket and usual stamps.
ISBN 0306702576. #28018. $25
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International Folk Music Council.
Conference. Han'guk Kugak Hakhoe.
International Folk Music Council: 25-31 August 1981, Seoul,
Korea: Compendium of Abstracts and Translation of Abstracts.
Seoul, Korea: Korean Musicological Society, 1981. Small 4to (medium-large
book). 128, 80 pages.
Text in English and Korean. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), covers slightly
worn. #27898. $35
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Jeppesen, Knud, Raccolte ed Edite.
La Flora Arie &c.: Antiche Italiane.
Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen, 1949. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 2 volumes
(xxviii, 149; xxvi, 135 pages). Music.
'This edition endeavours to give a survey of the great period of the Italian
Belcanto, from the beginning of the artistically intended solosong about the
year 1800 until its culmination towards the middle of the 18th century.' -
Preface, xi. Text in Italian, English, Danish, and German. Good hardcover,
rebound in library cloth. Exlibrary: spine labels, stamps on top, fore and
bottom edges, bookplates inside front covers, stamps on front flyleaf; stamp on
rear flyleaf, barcode label and pocket inside rear cover; some pencil
annotations. #26363. $90
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Lee, Elaine, Susan Norfleet Lee, and
Dale Place.
Starstruck (A Space Opera).
Drawings, Sets, and Costumes by Michael Kaluta. New York: Broadway Play
Publishing, 1985. 1st printing. 4to (large book). 85, [3] pages. Color and
black-and-white photographs. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by Michael
Kaluta and signed by the author Elaine Lee.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0881450235. #27593.
$60
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Lennon, Nigey.
Being Frank: My Time with Frank Zappa.
Photos by Phil Stern. Illustrations by Suzy Beal. Los Angeles, California:
California Classics Books, 1995. 1st printing. 154 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 187939555X. #27034.
$40
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Liang, Tsai-Ping.
Chinese Musical Instruments and Pictures.
Taipei, Taiwan: Chinese Classical Music Association, 1970. 107 pages text in
English, no pagination of Chinese text. Bibliography. Illustrations.
Text in Chinese and English. Slightly worn stiff pictorial wrappers (soft
cover). Former owner's name on front flyleaf. #23328. $22.50
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Liszt, F. (Franz).
Life of Chopin.
Translated from the French by Martha Walker Cook. Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1897.
4th edition revised. 202 pages. The date of publication is a guess. This
edition was first published in 1863. The gift inscription in this book is dated
1897.
Good hardcover, blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt front cover and spine
titles; the half-title page is complete, but the title page and the following
four pages are torn horizontally in the middle of the pages. Unrelated gift
inscription on front flyleaf. #26704. $17.50
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Michaelides, Solon.
The Music of Ancient Greece: An Encyclopaedia.
Foreword by R. P. Winnington-Ingram. London: Faber and Faber, in association
with Faber Music Limited, 1978. xvi, 365 pages, 10 plates. Index.
Very good hardcover and dust jacket in library acetate cover. Exlibrary: Spine
labels, stamps on top and bottom edges, front flyleaf, foreword page; barcode
label and pocket on rear free endpaper. ISBN 057110021X. #25675. $110
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Miller, Philip L.
The Ring of Words: An Anthology of Song Texts. The Original
Texts Selected and Translated, with an Introduction.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1963. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large
book). xx, 200 pages. Index.
Includes German, French, Italian, Russian, Scandinavian, and Spanish song texts
in the original language and English. Good hardcover in slightly worn and
frayed dust jacket. #21781. $15
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Nery, Rui Vieira, and Paulo Ferreira
de Castro.
History of Music.
Translated by Kenneth Frazer. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda,
1991. 194 pages. Bibliography. Synthesis of Portuguese Culture, Comissariado
para a Europalia 91. The evolution and development of music in Portugal from medieval times until 1991.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); spine and edges of front cover
slightly sunned; some ballpoint notations on front flyleaf.
ISBN 9722704494. #28501. $45
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