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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Boston: T.O.H.P. Burnham, 1861. Revised. Hardcover. Octavo. XXXVIII, 154pp. Original blind embossed cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Colored endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of John Gibson Lockhart. Fascinating collection of historical and romantic Spanish ballads. This new edition has been revised with a biographical sketch of the author. Spine edges..... More