The Concert Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to Symphonic Music
New York: Whittlesey House, (1947). Hardcover. First edition. 868pp. Introduction by Deems Taylor. Short tears on the spine ends else very good. More
New York: Whittlesey House, (1947). Hardcover. First edition. 868pp. Introduction by Deems Taylor. Short tears on the spine ends else very good. More
New York: Whittlesey House, (1947). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 868pp. Introduction by Deems Taylor. Light edgewear, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. More
New York: Whittlesey House, (1947). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 868pp. Introduction by Deems Taylor. Owner's name, jacket text affixed to front pastedown, very good or better lacking the dustwrapper. More
San Francisco: Bell & Company, [1872]. Softcover. Printed handbill. 4.5" x 10.25". About fine. *OCLC* locates three copies of this imprint, there was a previous San Francisco imprint by a different publisher in 1871. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, (1989). Hardcover. First edition. 270pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Doubleday, (1989). Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 270pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "To Ellie from her love Marty - always my Valentine. Pearl Bailey." More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1968). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates. Bowed boards with light foxing on the page edges else very good in a very good dustwrapper with foxing on the rear panel, rubbing and edgewear. Signed by the author. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1968). Hardcover. Early reprint. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with small tears and light wear. Warmly Inscribed by the author, along with a small (5.5" x 3.5") black and white photograph of Bailey Signed "Love, Pearl"..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1968). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Light foxing on page edges, cloth mildly soiled, very good in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with spine sunned, short tears on edges. More
New York: Pocket Books, (1969). Softcover. Later printing. Mass market paperback. 189pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pages lightly age-toned, spine creased and cocked with small tape repair at the foot, about very good. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1968). Hardcover. Early reprint. Illustrated with black and white plates. Near fine with light wear and very good rubbed dust jacket with edgewear, including small nicks, tears and creases. Inscribed to actress Novella Nelson: "Love to dear dear Novella Pearl Bailey who has nothing..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, (1971). Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated with black and white plates. Very good or better with toning and light wear and very good or better with tidemark at the topedge and edgewear including nicks, small tears and creases. Inscribed to actress Novella Nelson: "To dearest Novella -..... More
Columbia Records, [1954]. Unbound. 7" 45 RPM vinyl record. Fine record in a very good pictorial cardboard sleeves with toning and rubbing. Columbia extended play record B-1651. Side A: *That's Good Enough for Me*, *Ma!*; Side B: *Tired*, *Row, Row, Row*. More
Northfield: The College City Press, (circa 1965). Softcover. First edition. Near fine catalogue in lightly soiled, stapled wrappers. More
London: Spring Books, (1967). Hardcover. Second impression. Quarto. xvi, 475pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, spine sunned with ends bumped, very good in a very good lightly age-toned dustwrapper with crease in sunned spine. More
New York: The Viking Press, (1979). Softcover. Reprint. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. More
New York: The Viking Press / A Studio Book, (1974). Hardcover. Revised edition. Small quarto. 119, [8]pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Gentle edgewear, spine lightly toned, near fine, lacking the dust jacket. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1996). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 118pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
[No place]: Cleo C. Baker, (1978). Softcover. First edition. 24mo. 72pp. Illustrated wrappers. Frontispiece illustration of Elvis Presley's birthplace in Tupelo, and of Graceland. Slight wear at the bottom of the spine, very good or better. Signed by the author on the final page. Football fiction written with three of..... More
New York: The Press of the Readers Club, (1943). Hardcover. Special edition for the Reader's Club. Foreword by Clifton Fadiman. Owner's name on front fly, foxing on endpapers, binding cocked and cover corners lightly bumped, very good in a good or better foxed and edgeworn dustwrapper with modest loss on..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1993). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Yellow wrappers. 103pp. Slight rubbing and a small spot on the front wrapper else near fine. More
Wilmington, Delaware: City Council, 1989. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 221pp. Designed and illustrated by Bernard Ben Pearce. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown. America's history of black music and artists. More
New York: Gertrude Hoffmann, 1911. Softcover. Folio. String-tied printed wrappers with illustration by Leon Bakst. Small tear on the yapped wrappers, else about very good. Includes the printed glassine over-wrapper which has chips and tears. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Thick octavo. xvi, 615pp. Illustrated from photographs, and from drawings by Marta Becket. Fine in lightly worn, near fine dust jacket with the yellow spine titling a tiny bit dulled. Also prints an annotated selection of recordings, compiled..... More