The Flying Dutchman A Guide to the Opera
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1979. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. More
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1979. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. More
Prague: Divus, (2011). Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Quarto. Glossy photographic boards with applied title sticker as issued. Fine. Barker's simple but striking photographs documenting the early days of the British punk movement as a member of the Bromley Contingent with images of Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Jordan, Bertie “Berlin”..... More
München: R.Piper & Co Verlag, (1947). Hardcover. Later printing. 74pp. Text in German. Slightly bowed with edgewear else very good. More
(New York: The John Church Company) / The Triangle Club, (1928). Softcover. First edition. Musical score. Quarto. 55pp. Clothbacked printed wrappers. Wrappers with light wear and soil, near fine. Most of the lyrics by Josh Logan and Barnouw. The Texas-born Logan, later an important stage and screen director, also played..... More
New York: Irving Berlin Standard Music Corporation, 1927. Softcover. First edition, Quarto. 16pp. Stapled wrappers. Light foxing to the wrappers, and some light edgewear, very good or better. Though the front wrapper states "words and music combined," there are no printed lyrics. Features 15 spirituals, printing just the lead melody..... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1956). Softcover. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Illustrated with halftone plates. Inscribed by the author in ink on the half-title page to the American composer Virgil Thomson, with Thomson’s blind embossed stamp on the half-title and title page. The spine is lightly toned, printed on cheap paper with the usual..... More
Hollywood: Paul Kohner, Inc., [no date- circa 1955?]. Softcover. Quarto. 39 typed (carbon) leaves printed rectos only and brad bound into printed yellow Paul Kohner, Inc. wrappers. Registration number affixed on first leaf, near fine. Apparently unproduced bio pic about Strauss, a Viennese composer who died in 1954 and who..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. 208pp. Quarto. Picture editor William Cahn. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown and small bookstore sticker on rear pastedown, near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Based on the television documentary The Jazz Age, written by Henry Salomon with Richard Hanser, that aired..... More
New York: Putnam, 1959. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 208pp. Dampstain near bottom page edges and on spine and boards, a good only copy in a good only lightly rubbed dustwrapper with corresponding dampstain. More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980. Hardcover. First edition. A couple of tiny spots on the front board, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with some small scratches on the front panel. A novel about a Broadway actress by the daughter of the American songwriter and composer Irving Berlin. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. More
San Francisco: [No Publisher, circa 1980s]. Unbound. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on 8.5" x 11" paper. Slight toning else fine. An original flyer promoting a show at San Francisco's Le Disque featuring Barry Beam with PC 2000 and Charlie Peacock. More
Boston: White-Smith Music Publishing, [circa 1890 - 1914]. Softcover. Unknown edition. Folio. Monochromatic illustration of Thomas Moore on the front cover. Single bifolium making four pages. Toning and light edgewear including a crease and small tear to the top corner affecting throughout, very good or better. For voice and piano..... More
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, (1986). Softcover. First American edition. Foreword by John Updike. Translated by Clarence K. Pott. 12mo. Illustrated wrappers. A couple of small faint spots on the front wrap, near fine. More
Berlin: Deutschen Brahms-Gesellschaft, 1908. Hardcover. First edition. 165pp. Volume four only. Text in German. Front hinge cracked, else near fine. More
New York: Hill and Wang, (1982). Softcover. Fourth printing. Wrappers. 220pp. Essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Very good with previous owner signature on the title page, mild staining, and two tiny abrasions on the front wrap. More
Washington, D.C. (United States Government Printing Office), 1944. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 143pp. Red cloth gilt. Spine lettering a little dull else near fine. More
Paris: Angel Records, [no date]. Unbound. Original 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album. Fine in a toned printed paper sleeve in a near fine cardboard sleeve with a sticker on the front panel and slight edgewear. More
New York / Roma: Oolp/La Nuova Foglio, 1974. Softcover. Octavo. Black tape bound paper wrappers with applied cardboard boards in printed black dustwrapper. Fine with near fine dustwrapper with a bit of wear at the crown and topedge. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1969). Softcover. Later printing. Trade paperback. 126pp. Grease pencil inside front wrapper, wrapper lightly age-toned, very good. More
London: Michael Joseph, (1952). Hardcover. First edition. 520pp. Slight fading on the boards, previous owner name, and rubbing on the bottom page edge else about near fine in a very good dustwrapper with chips and tears. More
New York: Intercultural Publications, 1953. Softcover. Single issue, Number 3, Spring 1953. Octavo. 165pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Text in English. Illustrated wrappers. Page edges lightly soiled, spine creased, very good. A collection of art, dance, music, poetry, science and more. Contributions by Jacques Barzun, Cleve Gray, Jacques..... More
New York: Viking Press, (1951). Softcover. Compass Books Edition. Trade paperback. 624pp. Owner's gift inscription on half-title, spine sunned and creased, very good. Compass Books, C68. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Later edition. Two dusty, near fine volumes in a good slipcase that is splitting along the edges and has two book store labels. More
[New York? no publisher, circa 1957]. Unbound. Pictorial broadside or flyer. Measuring 8" x 10½ an matted to 8¼" x 11" in frame. Unexamined out of the frame, the paper is a overall evenly toned, else about fine. Flyer depicts a missile in flight, presumably the missile also provided a...... More