Music from Berthoff Books

Harper Colophon Books, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 192 pages, with index, glossary, bibliography, suggestions for further reading, eight pages of musical examples. A survey of musical notation, style, the development of instruments and their sonorities, and many other topics related, especially, to early music and its performance. First Harper Colophon edition of book published 1954. Trade paperback, remainder… Read more about this item

The Odyssey Press (Bobbs-Merrill), 1973. Soft cover. Good. 1330 pages plus 35 Roman-numeralled pages of front matter, with overall introduction, bibliography of general studies of English poetry in this period, intro and selected bibliography for each poet, index to titles and first lines. Included are works by Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell. Twelve illustrations include portraits… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1941. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1107 pages, with index and bibliography, 25 b&w illustrations (art reproductions) on plates, three maps of where composers from certain countries were active. Covers ancient Greece to the early 20th century. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), black cloth with gilt lettering in red insets all rubbed especially on spine… Read more about this item

Impress, 2015. Soft cover. Near Fine. 466 pages. Essays on a variety of writers and other topics by the prolific reviewer and professor of English at Amherst. Trade paperback, slightest shelf wear, touch of dust soil to edges, handful of page reference notes written in pencil on rear free end paper. Pages bright and unmarked.

ICM Artists, 1980. Soft cover. Good. 34 pages (including covers, which are numbered). Souvenir Book for 1980 North America Tour of the Peking Opera Theatre. B&w and full-page color photos. Large pamphlet (9-1/4" x 12") stapled in stiff card wraps, light shelf wear, heavier at top of fold where there is creasing and a 1" tear, rubbed along… Read more about this item

Oliver Ditson, 1916. Soft cover. Good. 235 pages, with index of song titles, plus 40-page introduction and notes on each song by Sharp. The songs are given with piano accompaniment and their many verses. The songbook with sewn binding opens compfortably to be read by pianist. Soft cover 4to (9-1/2" x 12-1/2"), covers worn/soiled/age-toned with 1-1/2" chip to… Read more about this item

Soft cover. Good. 12 pages including front and back, stapled in pamphlet form. Evidently a concert program: "Lyrics by Eugene Walter, Music by Donald Ashwander, Fred Baldwin, Alexis Biolley & Francis Imbragulio". Performer listed after each poem (song): Phyllis Demetropoulos - soprano, Greg Riley - tenor, Teri Ann Willams - soprano, Linda Evans - alto. Most of the… Read more about this item

Bramhall House, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 369 pages, plus 12 pages front matter, with indexes of titles, first lines, and explanatory material; bibliography; key to guitar chords used in the book; introduction. Decorations by William Bars. Sixty-five ballad topics are explored, some with several versions, and matched with Child ballad numbers. Piano settings and guitar chords are given… Read more about this item

2017. Soft cover. Good. 182 pages. Illustrated with photos on 14 plates, some in color. Autobiography by Fran Morris, whose family (descended in part from a branch of the Mendelssohn family) left Germany as refugees from Nazism in 1938 and came to the USA via England and Switzerland. Morris attended Bennington College and became a pianist and music… Read more about this item

Hal Leonard, 2006. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 96 pages. Melody, Words and Chords for 72 Favorite Carols and Songs. Trade paperback, wraps a bit curled, wear to corners, touch of dust soil to top edge. Pages unmarked.

Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Three volumes in one, numbered separately: 322 + 335 + 371 = 1028 pages in all. Introductory note by the author, musical extracts printed throughout the summaries. A biography of each composer is included. Vol. 1 contains Wagner's operas; Vol. 2 - Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Von eber, Ambroise Thomas;… Read more about this item

Meridian Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair. TWICE-BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH AND ITALIAN-ENGLISH. 480 pages, with Recommended Recordings list, synopsis of each opera. the translations are full and literal, as opposed to ones made to fit the sung line. Mass-market paperback. Condition is stated as "fair" because the spine is cracked and repair has been done with… Read more about this item

Harper & Row, 1969. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 359 pages, with index. Book based on the scripts of Clark's Spring 1969 public TV series of the same title, chiefly a history of European art and culture. Illustrated with 48 color plates and 238 b&w photos (art reproductions). Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 10"), faded red cloth with faded/rubbed gilt lettering… Read more about this item

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955. Soft cover. Very Good. 307 pages. Foreword by Bentley. Collection of "the best of Shaw's musical writing" (back cover). Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, rubbed along spine, faint foxing to top edge and inside covers. Name of former owner written on title page, pages unmarked.

Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 466 pages. Fourth printing. (Main image shows title page, second image - exterior.) The collection has sections "Poems" and "Songs and Other Musical Pieces", between them the prose poem "Letter to a Wound". 8vo, blue cloth much rubbed and worn at extremities including 1" tear along backstrip at crown, lettering entirely gone… Read more about this item

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages, with index. First American printing. Essays, short memoir pieces, interviews with the poet; section of short essays on jazz. Trade paperback, scant shelf wear, crease to front cover, faint foxing to fore-edge. Marginalia on approximately five pages.

B. Schott's Söhne, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. 47 pages. Comic Opera . . . "from a fable in 'The Sheik of Alexandria and his Slaves' by Wilhelm Hauff", Music by Hans Werner Henze, but this volume is the libretto only. "English Version by Eugene Walter" on label affixed to title page, covering a printed line containing a… Read more about this item