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American Welsh Festival.
American Welsh Festival, New York World's Fair, September 15,
1940.
New York: American Welsh Festival, 1940. 48 pages. Music. 2-page program laid
in. Welsh cover title: Dydd Gwyl y Cymry Ffair y Byd, Efrog Newydd Medi 15ed,
1940.
A songbook with music and lyrics in English and Welsh. Fair stiff wrappers
(soft cover); spine sunned and torn at lower end. #25748. $25
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Anthony, Gordon.
The Vic-Wells Ballet: Camera Studies.
Introduction by Ninette de Valois. London: George Routledge, 1938. 1st
printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). xiv, 24 pages. + 55 full-page
photographic plates.
Good hardcover in chipped, torn and worn jacket. Upper right-hand corner of
front dust jacket missing; some foxing on endpapers and edges. #21277.
$12.50
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Bach, Johann Sebastian. Click here for a separate page of listings.
Brown, James.
Godfather: Legend for the People.
No place: No publisher, 1973? 24 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. A 24-page,
black-and-white, 12 x 9 inches concert tour souvenir program with text by Brown
and others, concert and other photographs, some lyrics, and facsimiles of
letters and record covers, with full-page front and rear cover photographs.
Notation in red ballpoint pen on rear cover has an August 3, 1973 date.
Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), covers and edges worn. #28360.
$250
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Butler, David.
Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to The Last
Seduction.
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2002. 1st printing. xix, 227 pages. Index.
Bibliography.
Exlibrary: Very good hardcover in good mylar-covered dust jacket with flaps
pasted down; call number on spine, stamp on top edge, stamp on title page and
rear flyleaf. ISBN 0275973018. #28290. $55
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Casella, Alfredo.
El Piano.
Traduccion del italiano por Carlos Floriani. Buenos Aires: Ricordi Americana,
1948. 3a Edicion Revisada. 243 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations.
Musical examples. Titulo Original de la Obra Il Pianoforte.
Text in Spanish. Good hardcover in slightly torn dust jacket inside library
acetate cover; exlibrary, stamps on all edges and on title page former owner's
name in ink on blank front flyleaf; pages browned with age. #26876. $25
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Chiapusso, Jan.
Bach's World.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968. x, 338 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Illustrations.
Exlibrary. Spine label; stamps on top and bottom edges, front flyleaf,
dedication page; barcode label and pocket on rear free endpaper. Very good
hardcover and dust jacket in pasted-down library acetate cover. #23653. $75
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Costello, Elvis.
Everyday I Write the Song (Grumbling Appendix to the Singing
Dictionary).
Music transcribed by Roger Day. New York: Plangent Visions Music, 1983. 4to
(large book). 189, [3] pages. Photographs. Music.
Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); edges slightly rubbed and worn,
some soiling on covers. #28047. $20
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Dalmonte, Rossana.
Camillo Cortellini: Madrigalista Bolognese.
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1980. 1st printing. 194 pages. Illustrations. Music.
Historiae Musica Cultores, Biblioteca XXXIV. Universita di Bologna, Istituto di
Discipline della Musica, 1.
Text in Italian. Good hardcover. Exlibrary bound in library buckram: call
number and label on spine, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside
front cover; barcode label and pocket inside rear cover. ISBN 8822229010.
#26325. $30
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The Delfonics.
Two-page portfolio with color photograph of the musical group
The Delfonics glued inside on the left-hand side, and grainy black-and-white
publicity photograph of James Brown with a beige matte stapled on the right
hand side.
No place: No publisher, 1971. 13.5 x 10.5 inches. 2 pages. Photographs. Written
on upper margin above Delfonics photograph: Symphony Hall, Orchestra Circle,
Saturday, April 14, 1971, 8:00. Written along bottom of the Delfonics
photograph: The James Brown Show, the J.B.'s & Gary Bryd. The original members
of The Delfonics were William Hart, Wilbert Hart, and Randy Cain, who was
replaced by Major Harris in 1971. The singers are not identified, so the
photograph shows either Cain or Harris.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), front and rear edges have a dampstain, and
dampstain on right-hand matte of Brown photographs. #28363. $90
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Desdunes, Clarence.
Violin Playing.
Omaha, Nebraska: Clarence Desdunes, 1922. 1st edition. 12mo (small book). 39
pages.
Poor wrappers (soft cover); printed on newspaper stock, edges and pages are
very fragile and some corners broken off and edges uneven; most pages are
loose. #28413. $130
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De Smet, Robin.
Published Music for the Viola Da Gamba and Other Viols.
Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1971. 105 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 18.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); spine slightly sunned; some
small stains on rear cover. #28495. $25
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Fallon, B. P.
Zoo TV Tour, North America, Feb. 29th-April 23rd, 1992.
Photography by Anton Corbijn, Jurgen Tellers, Kevin Davies, Luc Pointptereau,
and Steven Averill. Nanuet, New York: Propaganda, 1992. Folio (very large
book). 32 pages. Color photographs. Illustrations. February through May
historical dates inside folding front covers. Respond! tear off mailers for
good causes inside folding rear cover. Includes interviews with the U2 band
members, Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, and the Edge.
Very good stiff pictorial self-wrappers (soft cover). #26828. $30
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Forsyth, Michael.
Buildings for Music: The Architect, the Musician, and the
Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985. 1st printing. Oblong small 4to
(medium-large book). 371 pages, [16} pages of plates, some in color. Index.
Bibliography. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Plans.
A book about music, architecture, acoustics, and physics. Good hardcover.
Exlibrary: spine labels, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside
front cover and on half-title page; barcode label and pocket inside rear cover.
ISBN 0262060892. #26335. $40
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