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
Berlin: Verlag der Schlesinger'schen Buch & Musikhandlung, Rob. Lienau, ca. 1900. Softcover. Two parts in one, as published. Folio. Part I: No. 2, Dritter Streich, 12pp. Part II: No. 3, Fünfter Streich. 12pp. Both parts with lithographed wrappers in vibrant colors of illustrations taken from Busch's original work which was..... More
Krakow: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. App. 400pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's device on cover. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated title pages for all 20 isses, four of them double issues. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (Polish Music Publishing House) was founded in 1945 and the only..... More
Wien; Leipzig: C. W. Stern, 1907-1909. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVIII, 374, XVI, 375, [1], XV, [1], 301, [3], XVI, 378pp. Uncut. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spines and front covers. Top edges red. Decorative endpapers. Captivating work compiling Beethoven's correspondence and shedding a new light on the..... More
New York: G. Schirmer, n/d. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 569pp. Green cloth with embossed gold lettering to cover and spine. Illustrated half-title and title page: Half-title is in German, in Gothic script with red and black lettering; title page is in English with copper vignette. A magnificent edition of the..... More
Garden City, New York: NP, 1927. Paul Honore. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 182pp. Gilt decorated black cloth in original dj. Head and tail of spine and bottom edges slightly bumped. Dj price clipped. Minor creasing to dj. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. "Frontier Ballads" is Mr. Finger's own collection of favorite..... More
Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. 8vo. 150pp. Gilt decorated vellum spine over paper covered illustrated boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Corners bumped and worn. Some scuffing and minor abrasions to boards and spine. Fore page edge untrimmed. Illustrated title page. Hoffmann wrote this 3 act opera..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2008. Hardcover. Quarto. 431 (3)pp. Original photo-illustrated paper-covered boards with white, silver and blind-stamped lettering on cover, black lettering on spine as issued. Photo-illustrated endpapers, free endpapers, half-title and title page. An arresting documentation of the film Dream of Life by Steven Sebring, featuring one of the..... More
St. Petersburg: V. Bessel and Co., 1897. Reprint. Softcover. 4to. 17pp. White wrappers with b&w writing and steel plate engraving. Reprint of the original edition published in 1885. One volume of a 3-volume set of sheet music, Includes Choirs No. 4 "Niebo i Zvezdy" ["Sky and Stars"] and No. 5..... More
Cologne: Taschen, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 489 (3)pp. Original gilt cloth with print laid to cover, gilt lettering on spine, in illustrated stiff wraparound sleeve with gilt record-size LP of first million seller certified gold record as front cover. Black endpapers. Color-illustrated half-title and double-page title page. Definite history..... More
NP, n/d. Softcover. 8vo. 28pp. Pictorial, stapled wrappers as issues. Rare program of a concert with Artur Rubinstein held at City Hall in Hong Kong on July 28th, 1964. Magnificent booklet with reproductions of photographs in b/w of Rubinstein at various stages of his life. Minor scuffing and staining to..... More
Rouen: Imprimerie de la Vicomte, 1924. First edition. Softcover. Sm. 4to. xiv,233,[2],pp. Original wraps. Disbound. Small stamp of previous owner on half-title page. Frontispiece. Critical & documentary dictionary of violin makers, old and modern. Illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions by A. Chalat of many types of violins. "Trente-Quatre Planches Hors..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1923. Limited ed. Hardcover. 4to. 120 pp. (4) pp. at rear listing Oscar Weil's musical compositions. Black cloth spine over brown boards. Pages untrimmed. Frontispiece (color). One of 400 numbered copies. Corners bumped. Light wear to head and tail of spine. Otherwise, in..... More
New York: Melbert B. Cary, Jr., (1933). Woolly Whale. Hardcover. 8vo. 28pp. Quarter leather with gilt title over decorated rice paper-covered boards. Mylar jacket. Wear to head and tail of spine and corners. Large tear to mylar. Ex libris to inside of front board. Frontis of Franz Gruber. This work..... More
New Orleans: M. Variol, No Date c. 1890. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original illustrated pink wrappers with black lettering on cover. Masterpieces of French Opera. Libretto by Edouard Blau. Dante is one of eight opera's composed by this French violinist and composer. It was staged first on May 13..... More
New York: Metropolitan Printing and Engraving Establishment, 1879. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 60 (1)pp. Original decorative pink wrappers with black lettering on cover. Advertisements on inside and back covers. Program: Opera comique in three acts and four tableaux performed by Maurice Grau's Great French Opera Company. Text in English and..... More
Jerusalem: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1974. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 59 pp. White wrappers with decorative b/w facsimile photograph of people in tribal Saharan garb. Book is in German with Hebrew rear cover and title page. Work is illustrated with 21 b/w facsimile photographs portraying African nomadic life, its..... More
Boston: White-Smith Music Publishing Co., ca 1885. Hardcover. Folio. 101, [3]pp. Original half cloth over printed paper covered boards. Celebrated method devoted to the first principles of violin-playing. Heavy rubbing along edges. Moderate rubbing and soiling on covers. Head and tail of spine partly chipped. Binding in overall fair, interior..... More
Leipzig: C. F. Peters, no date (ca. 1900). Hardcover. 4to. 169pp. Red cloth with embossed gilt lettering and Art-Nouveau-style ("Jugenstil") decoration. Decorated endpapers. Delightfully decorated title page. Musical scores and lyrics of 79 songs composed by the renowned composer and pianist of the Romantic period, Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy..... More
New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIII, [1], 354pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. In this remarkable study of Schumann as critic, the author examines the circumstances of Schumann's entry into the field of criticism and..... More
London: Collier-MacMillan, Ltd., (1963). Hardcover. This is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author at free front endpaper in black pen to his friend and Rabbi, Marc Stern: "To my ever-faithful friend Marc Stern, the Rav, the geneolgist, the helper magnamimous, in lastingf gratitude. Eric W. April 1987." 8vo. xiii..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo. 62pp. Illustrated green cloth. Some staining and scuffing to binding. Spine sunned and rubbed. Wear to corners. Binding in good-, interior in very good condition. More
Wien: ND (ca. 1827-1840). Hardcover. Ex-library. 16mo. Half cloth over black paper-covered boards. Musical score with text in Latin for two tenors and two bass for mass. Title-page in German. Age wear and staining on binding. Heavy foxing throughout but text and score clear. Hinges starting. Ex-libris of Hebrew Union..... More