Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1920. Hardcover. [1], 122-157 p.; 25 cm. Dark blue linen-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. This is an offprint from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 44, no. 2 (1920). The original yellow front wrapper is bound in. Front wrapper inscribed to Thomas...
Berlin: Ullstein & Co., 1918. Paperback. 16 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with some lyrics. "Alfred Gessler 1922" in pencil at upper edge of first page. Volume and number of issue have been trimmed off along the top edge...
Williamsburg, Va. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978. Paperback. Third printing. vii, [1], 16 p.: music; 16 x 22 cm. Paper covers printed with a cover title on a beige rectangle within a decorative border, on a faux green marbled background. Originally for violin; here set for piano or harpsichord by J.S....
New York: Stage Publishing Co., 1935. Thurber, James. Paperback. 100 p.: illustrations; 36 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Leslie Howard as Hamlet. Contents include: Social Tide-Rip by Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick with performance photographsy by Gray-O'Reilly [about the play Dead End by Sidney Kingsley] -- Wrong from the Beginning...
Augsburg [Augustae]: Johann Jakob Lotter und Sohn, 1804. The violoncello part only. 24 p.: music; 31 cm. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Publication information from library records. Woodcut headpiece and tailpiece. The composer, Rochus Dedler (1779-1822), is best known today for the music used in the annual performances of the...
Philadelphia, Pa. Harry Dichter, 1953. Paperback. Compiled and edited by Harry Dichter and Bernice Larrabee. "A Catalog of Sheet Music for Sale by Harry Dichter." [8], 49, [1] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Blue paper covers with a photograph of Harry Dichter on the front cover. Covers included in pagination. First...
Philadelphia, Pa. Musical Americana, 1958. Soft Cover. 12 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Stapled. Includes a description of Dichter's facsimile publication One Hundred Greats in Early American Sheet Music; A Great Stephen Foster Year by Fletcher Hodges, Jr.; Tin-Pan Alley's Sherlock Holmes [about Alex M. Kramer] by Robert w. Minton; and...
Milan: R. Stabilimento Ricordi, 1874. Hardcover. [4] p., 1 vocal score (111 p.); [4] p., 1 vocal score (181 p.); [4] p., 1 vocal score (125 p.): portrait, music; 28 cm. Contemporary leather spine with five spine compartments between triple gilt rules; maroon pebble-grain cloth over boards. Gilt-tooled titles in...
Bryn Mawr, Pa. Theodore Presser Co., 1923. Soft Cover. 1 vocal score (vol. 4). 146 p.: music; 27 cm. Brown paper covers printed in red and black. This volume 4 only, for bass. In Good+ Condition: spine rubbed and starting to separate at spine; corners of covers lightly creased; pencilled...
Boston: E.C. Schirmer Music Co., 1958. Paperback. [2], 65, [1] p.: music; 27 cm. Illustrated paper covers. Randall Thompson set to music Ode to the Virginian Voyage, written by Michael Drayton (1563-1631) in 1606. Former owner's name at head of front cover. In Good- Condition: cover slightly soiled and separating...
Augsburg: Joh. Jacobi Lotter, & Filii, 1801. Paperback. 2nd violin part only. 63, [1] p.: music; 34 cm. Signatures: *A- 2 (folio). Spine and corners covered in remnants of an earlier music manuscript; very faint marbled paper over boards. Paper label on front board with handwritten title: Violino II. The...
New York: Irving Berlin, 1923. Sheet_music. 5, [1] p.: music; 31 cm. Front wrapper illustrated, printed in red and black. Sheet music for voice and piano. Front wrapper illustration by P.M. Griffith is a photo of Vivian and Rosetta Duncan as Eva and Topsy (in blackface) with list of 12...
New York: John Hanrahan, 1935. Thurber, James. Paperback. 100 p.: illustrations; 36 cm. Color photograph on front cover of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine in The Taming of the Shrew. Contents include: Chaplin: Young Man of Promise by Max Eastman with drawings by de Miskey -- Rhapsody in Black by...
New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1916. Sheet_music. 5, [1] p.: music; 35 cm. Illustrated front wrapper printed in blue and orange. Illustration signed: Finson. Popular Edition--at head of front wrapper. Publisher's advertisements on outside of back wrapper. In Good- Condition: leaves are separated; loss of lower corner of...
London: Edward Arnold, 1955. Hardcover. First edition. 167 p., frontispiece and 23 leaves of illustrations; 22 cm. Red cloth with silver stamped spine title. No dust jacket. In Good+ Condition: light stain on front board; corners rubbed; head of spine fraying; a couple of pencilled marginal notes; otherwise, clean and tight.
New York: Macmillan Co., 1904. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 380, [2] p., frontispiece and 11 leaves of plates: music, portraits, illustrations; 26 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles, and gilt-stamped cover illustration of music. Top page edges gilt. Title page in red and black. Part of the publisher's...
New York: Macmillan Co., 1915. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 387, [7] p., frontispiece and 11 leaves of plates: music, portraits, illustrations; 26 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles, and gilt-stamped cover illustration of music. Top page edges gilt. Title page in red and black. Part of the publisher's...
New York: Carl Fischer, 1927. Paperback. 47, [1] p.: music; 26 cm. Stapled. Wrapper title. Wrappers are included in pagination. Some editions were issued with a red-and-white illustrated wrapper. This does not appear to have been. For harmonicas in C and G. Contents: Operatic Gems, Lively Tunes--Jigs and Reels, Old...
London: Rockliff, 1955. Hardcover. Third Impression. xvi, 223 p., frontispiece and 31 unpaginated pages of illustrations: in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Good- Condition: loss at both ends...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 328 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-tooled armorial emblem of the Mill Hill School on the front board; both boards...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949. Hard Cover. Revised edition. x, 720 p.: illustrations, music; 22 cm. Burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Front free endpaper bears inscription of former owner Edward H. Wetherill (concert organist and former organist and choir master of Drexel Hill United...
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1935. Hardcover. "New edition Dec. 1935." xiii, 369 p.: color frontispiece, and 28 unpaginated pages of illustrations, including portraits and facsimile music; 25 cm. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title; blind-stamped illustration on front cover. Top page edges red. Includes Schubert...
London: M. Witmark & Sons, 1896. Sheet_music. 3-5, [1] p.: music; 33 cm. Lacking first leaf (pp. 1-2), presumably an illustrated front wrapper, but contains complete sheet music for piano and voice. Publisher's advertisement for four songs on back wrapper, three by Ford and Bratton, and one by Ford and...
Philadelphia: Robert J. Fraser, 1940. Paperback. [164] p.: music, illustration; 22 cm. Dark blue card with comb binding. Gilt-stamped cover title: My Soul At Song; compiled by Rev. and Mrs. Robert Fraser. Facing the title page is a photograph of the Fraser family and nephew Franny. Contains 156 hymns in...
London: T.B. Harms & Co., 1892. Sheet_music. [4] p.: music; 33 cm. Lacking first leaf, presumably an illustrated front wrapper, but contains complete sheet music for piano and voice. Publisher's advertisement for "But Yesterday" by B.H. Janssen on back wrapper. The composer wrote "Push dem Clouds Away" for an 1891...
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