Search Results: Music from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

London: Kegan Paul,Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75") viii & 333 pages, indexed. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine.
Slight wear at spine extremities & corners, foxing/ offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine.
Sydney Grew & wife Eve also wrote a book on Bach which was a title in the Master Musicians Series.

New York: Richard Ellington, 1959. Second edition. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75"), 36 pp., illustrated by Trina Castillo, Lee Shaw, & Pat Ellington. Pictorial, stapled, stiff paper wraps. Wraps moderately toned & soiled (cup stain on the upper), brief edge wear, about very good. Satiric but poignant folksongs collected by Dick Ellington, who was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, & Dave Van Ronk, Greenwich Village's "Mayor of MacDougal Street," who made enormous contributions to the American folk music revival.

New York: Edinburgh Fraternity, no date (ca. 1909). Limited edition, one of 1000 sets, complete in six octavo volumes (8.25" x 5.75"), variously paginated, profusely illustrated including frontis in color in each volume. Publisher's maroon cloth with printed paper labels on the spines.
Bindings very slightly soiled, shallow loss & fraying at the top of the spine on volume six, spine labels a bit toned & foxed, couple of hinges starting to crack (still secure), a good or better set.
A nice set of Burns who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, enhanced by numerous illustrations & printed music.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948, First Edition 8vo, 228 pp. Publisher's cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered & decorated in blue on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf wear, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket, lightly soiled, with brief edge wear "This is the blues story of Dupree, a nice guy, a simple guy, a trombone player who thought he knew his way around but played his music from the heart This is the story of Betty, the singer in the band, who sang her music sweet but from the hips" ~from the dust jacketWhat could possibly go wrong?

[Paris]: Chez "Eve"/ Ateliers M. A. D., no date (1938 ?). First edition. Oblong octavo (7.25" x 8.5"), 12 unnumbered pages, with illustrations throughout from photographs often featuring "les Jolies Filles d'Eve" who generally pose sans attire. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps, with whimisical cover illustration by Auguste Liquois.
Slight edge wear, lightly foxed, small loss in the lower margin of leaf 9/10 (not affecting text or illustration), Illegible signature in ink dated June 3. 1938 at the lower wrap, otherwise very good.
A well-illustrated program for the show at this delightful Cabaret which featured "25 Tableaux musiques et mis en scene" by Willy Leardy. The numbers were performed by Rose Mania, Barbara Waren, Mado Desly, Maria Gregor, & others who were supported by chorus line of gorgeous young women generally attired only in feathers.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1930. First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 473 & [1] pages, illustrated, the frontispiece by Keith Mackaye & linoleum cuts by Ina Annett. Publisher's gilt-lettered light brown cloth, with a pictorial device depicting a team of horses & a man plowing a field.
Margins sunned, base of the spine with shallow loss, corners bumped, internal toning mostly affecting endpapers & pastedowns, previous owner's name & place in ink at the ffep, small booksellers' label at front pastedown, otherwise good or better.
This copy from the library of Allen Walker Read, an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck."
Contents include Wide River by Langston Hughes, Apocrypha of Billy the Kid by Maurice G. Fulton, & The Witch by Paul Horgan.

London, Paris, Berlin, & Philadelphia: Societe Universelle Lyrique, (1899). "Limited Edition De Luxe made for the Dominion of Canada." Complete in five elephant folio volumes (17" x 135"), 514, & xvi pages (continuously paginated), frontis bust portrait from sculpture of Verdi in volume 1 plus 50 plates throughout (26 photogravure, some tinted; 24 in color which are tipped in) & numerous illustrations in text (many tinted). Publisher's bevel-edged maroon cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt, the upper covers with "Great Composers" crest in gilt featuring a pictorial device of children above an inset vellum shield lettered "GV." All edges gilt
Bindings moderately soiled & rubbed, spines browned, modest edge wear mostly at spine extremities & corners (including fraying), couple of tiny losses in the cloth along the joints, stain on the lower cover of volume 5, occasional foxing & handling smudges within, otherwise Very Good.
Includes:
Volume 1: Introduction -- A Brief History of Opera - A… Read More

Volume 1. The Hillbilly and Western Scrap Book, Over 100 Stars, Personal Autographs [in facsimile], Caricatures, Cartoons, Over 125 Pictures, 45 Biographies.
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Volume 2. The Hillbilly and Western Scrapbook, Photographs, Biographies, Autographs. Over 200 Stars of Radio, Television, Stage and Screen. (cover titles).
Cincinnati, Ohio: Scrapbook Publishers/ Jordan O. Zimmerman (copyright), 1949 & 1950. First editions Oblong quartos (8.5" x 11"), each with 48 unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated throughout from photographs & art work. Publisher's pictorial, stapled light card covers.
Slight edge wear & rubbing, brief soiling, previous owner's name in ink at the title page of volume 1, easily Very Good or better.
An uncommon tribute & showcase for 1940's & 50's American Country, Western, Folk, & Bluegrass music.
Performers profiled include: Rosalie Allen, Jimmy Wakely, Ernie Lee, Moon Mulligan, Sons of the Pioneers, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Bob Atcher, Bill Boyd, Patsy Montana, Al Dexter, Homer and Jethro,… Read More

Union, South Carolina: Federation of South Carolina Music Clubs, (1948). Printed paper wraps.
Union, South Carolina: Federation of South Carolina Music Clubs, (1948). First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), 22 pages. Original printed, stapled paper wraps. OCLC locates two copies as of 6/3/2023.
Soft vertical crease throughout, lightly soiled, otherwise very good.
"As South Carolina grew, so grew her music." It wasn't quite that simple, but in brief paraphrase may be found the essence of the Palmetto State's musical history. Along with it go the story of the pioneers, of their lore, and of the South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs." ~Excerpted from the text.

Bethesda, Maryland: Jake Einstein / WHFS FM, (1977). Second printing. Oblong octavo (5.75" x 8.5"), 95 pages, illustrated. Publisher's pictorial stapled light card covers, design by Phil Nicholson.
Stress at one staple (still secure), moderately rubbed & a bit sunned along the spine, brief edge wear including a small diagonal loss at lower corner of the front cover, a good or better copy.
Not only a wonderful gathering of recipes for vegetarian cuisine from a group of talented amateur chefs but also a nostalgic memento of Bethesda's cherished radio station. Broadcast from "high atop the Triangle Towers," WHFS was one of the country's first progressive rock stations. Contributors include Jane Frost, Darci Vanderhoff, Laurel Vaughn, Daniel McDonald, Ellen Cohen, & many others.

[Orangeburg, South Carolina]: unpublished, September, 1950 - June, 1956. Quarto (10.5" x 8.25"), 154 pages recorded in different hands & inks in "Standard Blank Book No. 21."
Binding a bit rubbed & soiled, otherwise very good & internally about fine.
A voluminous account of this auspicious group providing minutes, membership rolls, summaries of educational presentations, and often descriptions of performances & events. In addition to Ms. Shuler, contributors include: Elise Watson, Arnette Culler, Margaret G. Yongue, Mrs. Otto Warren, Jr., & Ellen Putnam.
"March, 1953.The meeting was then turned over to Mrs. J.C. Godowns, chairman of the folk dance festival. She introduced Mrs. T.F. Reid who gave an interesting study of folk music. Mrs W.O. Whitsell assisted her by the folk melodies at the piano … Following the program the hostesses served delicious punch, sandwiches and cookies, and a social hour was enjoyed."

No place [Havana ?]: Revista Musical Cubana, 1952. Broadside Handbill, octavo (8.75" x 5.5"), 1 pp., with separate publicity photo of Santos (5.25" 3.5"), rubber-stamoed on the verso apparently relative to his later tour of Venezuala.
Broadside with small losses at the corners affecting one letter, old folds, toned, otherwise good or better. Photo corner creased, some loss of emulsion in the margins of the upper corners, rubber-stamping a bit obscure, still good.
Daniel Santos, Peurto Rican singer & composer, lived & performed in Havana from 1946 until 1952. Active in the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, he also was a supporter of Fidel Castro but came to believe the Cuban Revolution was not nationalistic.

[Nashville Tennessee: Radio station WSM], no date (ca. 1942). First edition. Oblong octavo (8.5" x 5.25"), 48 pages, with illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps opening from the top.
Moderately toned & lightly soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good or better.
The introduction by Albert E. Gibson, who was Promotion Manager for Radio Station WSM, provides a brief biography of Acuff & a history of the Smoky Mountain Boys.

Cavendish, Vermont: Baptist Church, 1885. Original broadside/ handbill, octavo (9.25" x 6") printed in black ink on light paper. This copy signed faintly in ink at the upper margin by Hudson: "Please admit Mr. & Mrs. [?] Ward, Complimentary, Mrs. H.B. Hudson."
Old folds, edge wear including nicks & short tears, signature faded, otherwise Good.
Although from Brooklyn, Mrs. Hudson apparently spent summers with her father in Ludlow. She also gave generously to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

New York: Royal Publications, Inc., Volume 6, number 6, January, 1960. 4to (11" x 8.25"), 82 pp. Pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Lightly soiled, modest edge wear including tiny tears & a small loss at the base of the spine, toned, faintly musty, otherwise very good.This issue features a lengthy illustrated profile of Miles Davis by Harry Chillum entitled "The Wind Blows Cool on 57th Street." Additionally features fiction, cartoon humor, men's lifestyle articles, &, of course, pictorials featuring scantily clad young women.

Honolulu, Hawaii: Hardy Marks Publications, (1988). Reprint. 4to, 95, [1] pp illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Pictorial stiff paper wraps Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, otherwise very goodIncludes a chapter on "Punk Rock Tattooing"

New York: Wm. A. Pond, (1864). First edition. Small oblong quarto (6.75" x 10"), 79 & [1] pages. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps.
Small losses at the spine, wraps soiled, modest edge wear, previous owner's signature in ink at the left side of the front cover (possibly A.H. Douglas who sold musical instruments in New Jersey), occasional foxing, last leaf with 1.25 inch tear at the top edge affecting text but without loss, a Good or better copy.
Septimus Winner (1827 – 1905) was an American composer, teacher, performer, & music publisher. He wrote over 200 songs including "Listen to the Mocking Bird" & "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone." Winner also wrote some 200 instruction method books for over twenty-three instruments.
The front cover features a stunning graphic depicting musical instruments. Quite uncommon, OCLC finds 9 copies only as of 10/8/2023 (accession number 14059335).