Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. First edition. Large 4to. xii,493,(1)pp. Index and bibliography. Blue cloth titled in silver. Text in English with Japanese alliteration and numerous examples of printed music, including 182 full pages of printed sheet music. More
Leipzig: Verlag Versandhaus der Deutschen Turnerschaft Erich Eberhardt, 1928. Third edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 279 (1)pp. Original bright green paper-covered boards with dark green lettering and decor on cover, green lettering on spine. Extensive collection of German songs edited by Edmund Neuendorf. Contains two hundred and twenty-three songs with scores partitioned..... More
New York: CBS Columbia Broadcasting System, (1970). First edition. Audio recording. Inscribed "To Judith– who is always gracious and thoughtful– With Thanks– Isaac Stern 1970 Sept." on verso of record cover. Small Square Folio. CBS recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by..... More
Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1922, 1920. Fourth edition, First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. iv, 164, viii, 208pp. Bound in dark blue three-quarter cloth over marbled boards. Title pages with publisher's devices. Collection of some 224 German songs with text and scores. Contains alphabetical tables of content with page references. Edited and published..... More
Berlin: Adolph Furstner, 1911. Hardcover. Sm. folio. 442pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Head and tail of spine and edges rubbed. Corners bumped, slightly frayed and worn. Some writing in pencil on leaf following title page. A wonderful edition of Richard Strauss' famous opera. Sporadic notes and translations..... More
San Francisco: NP, 1940. Hardcover. Ex-library. Mimeographed typescript. 8vo. [3], 270, [2], pp. & six facsimiles. "A biographic record of 111 prominent musicians who have visited San Francisco and performed here from the earliest days of the gold rush era to the time of the great fire, with additional lists..... More
Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit Et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs, 1888. Lucien Metivet. Hardcover. 4to. 146pp. Decorated green silk covered boards. Wear to spine and edges. Some fraying to edges and corners. Corners bumped and worn. Some discoloration and staining to boards. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom page edges untrimmed. Lyrics and..... More
München: Hyperion, (1921). Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 308pp. Original full vellum with title printed in red on cover and spine. Ribbon marker. Top edge gilt. Blue endpapers. New edition with an extensive collection of German folk-songs and poems. Originally published in 1656 in Hamburg, printed by Georg Papen. "Dieses Werk..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xx, 354pp. Original light brown illustrated cloth with gilt lettering on cover, illustrations and gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece and publisher's device on title page. Title page printed in red and black. Decorative and historiated head and endpieces. Compilation of social, supernatural..... More
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. Eigenthum der Verleger, n/d. Reprint. Softcover. Oblong folio. 51pp. Original wraps protected by mylar jacket. Top right corner of front wrapper repaired. Some age wear, minor creasing, staining and foxing to wraps. Musical score for four hands piano to Goethe's Trauerspiel "Egmont." Beethoven's 1809-1810 musical composition..... More
Berlin & Posen: Ed. Bote & C. Bock, n/d. Hardcover. Ex-library. Volume 2 of 2 (Zweiter Band). 4to. 120pp. Three-quarter leather over brown cloth. Four inches of backstrip on tail of spine missing. Heavy age wear to binding. Ex-libris of "Hebrew Union College, Eduard Birnbaum Collection" on inside of front..... More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1960. Softcover. Sm. 4to. 168pp. Original illustrated wraps. Pages unopened, as issued. Volume II of Sumerische Götterlieder from the series Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Jahrgang 1960 - 1. Abhandlung. Transcription with annotations of six Sumerian hymns. Vorgelegt am 28. November 1959 von..... More
Berlin: Nibelungen-Verlag, 1940. 1.-100. Tausend. Softcover. 8vo. 224pp. Illustrated wrappers. Age wear to binding. Small closed tears to head and tail of spine. A collection of popular and favorite poems, stories and letters that aired on the radio in Nazi Germany to entertain the Wehrmacht. Many of the poems and..... More
New York: DISC Company of America, 1947. Softcover. 4to. 48 pp. Blue stiff paper binding. Guthrie song lyrics with illustrations. Front cover detached, but present. Missing a two-inch piece from bottom corner. Includes 14 pp. of autobiographical writings by Guthrie. Includes the songs "Talking Subway Blues, "Tom Joad," "Pretty Boy..... More
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1952. Softcover. 1 of 2 volumes. 8vo. L,334pp. Original wrappers. Discoloration, creasing, chipping and minor staining to wrappers. Spine sunned. Pulling to edges of wrappers. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. Inscribed by author to the prominent Jewish musicologist Eric Werner on free front endpaper. Volume VI of..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1930. Hardcover. Large octavo. (ix) 265pp. Purple buckram boards, with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Frontispiece reproduction of a woodcut portrait of Dalcroze. This is a finely printed English translated edition of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's pioneering treatise on his musical education philosophy..... More
Leipzig: Verlag Dr. Friedrich S. Krauss, 1929. Hardcover. 4to. 316,[3],pp. Blue cloth with title in gold on cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners rubbed. Some scuffing to boards. Pages unopened. IX. Band of the series 'Beiwerke zum Studium der Anthropophyteia'. Minnesang was the tradition of lyric..... More
Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, (1935). 21. bis 25. Auflage. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. 93,[3],pp. Gold-decorated blue cloth in original illustrated dust jacket. Minor discoloration to boards. Chipping and minor staining to parts of dj. Frontispiece of author. Contents: Die Musik im dritten Reich, Vom Neubau deutscher musikalischer Kultur, Wagners "Meistersinger" und unsere..... More
Philadelphia: University Museum, 1911. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Pages 158 -245. Original blue stiff wrappers with black lettering on cover. Frontispiece photograph with tissue guard. With music transcribed by Jacob D. Sapir. "The investigation described in the introduction to the first part of this volume included the work of collecting..... More
New York: Stinson Records, 1953. Later repressing. Vinyl album. Square Quarto (11 1/4"). Original illustrated album cover with white lettering on cover. Protected by modern mylar. Cover design by Nils Borg. Vinyl record album (33 1/2 RPM Long Play) containing the Stinson Records repressing of the album original issued as..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1930). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xviii. 154pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dj. Head and tail of spine and bottom corners bumped and rubbed. Minor discoloration to bottom front corner and head of spine. One-inch on head of dj..... More
Wolfenbüttel: Georg Kallmeyer, 1936. Softcover. 16mo. 32pp. Illustrated stapled wrappers as issued. A collection of 35 songs of the Hitler Youth. "Zusammengestellt für die Jugendwarte von der Abteilung Landjugend im Reichsnährstand." Text in Gothic. Some staining to wraps. Usual age browning to pages. Very good condition. Rare. More
San Francisco: NP, 1939. Hardcover. Ex-library. Mimeographed typescript. 8vo. [4], 212pp. Illustrated with mounted music advertisements as well as gray and white reproductions of drawings. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Minor scuffing to boards. Slight bumping to bottom edges. Ex-libris to inside of front boards. "Discard" stamp and..... More
San Francisco: NP, 1940. Hardcover. Ex-library. Mimeographed typescript. 8vo. xii,203, [2], pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. "A survey of musical prodigies developed in San Francisco during the past four decades (1900-1940), with additional data presented in the form of graphs, tables, appendices on patrons, pedagogues, conservatories, schools..... More
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii. 396pp. Ex library. Three-quarter cloth over black paper/cloth-covered boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Abrasions, scuffing and rubbing to boards. Wear to edges. Stamp of library to front-and rear endpaper. Hinges starting. Some staining to pages 54 & 55 not affecting..... More