ADASKIN, HARRY

A Fiddler`S World; Memoirs to 1938

Vancouver, BC, November House. (ISBN: 0-920156-02-0). 1977, 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 293pp. 8vo. Black cloth boards, lettering in gold to spine. Minor wear to dust jacket extremities, not price clipped. Starting at p.103. Internally clean, free of any markings. B&W photos, ports.

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Book number: 117875

Catalogue: Entertainment

Keywords: Music, Canadian Art, Canadian Music, Memoir 0920156020

BARBOUR, PAUL

One Man's Family Looks at Life

None Listed, Standard Brands Limited NONE. 1938. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. N/P. 12mo. Solid and clean; covers slightly bowed with light wear. Richly illustrated with black and white photographs from the cast of the radio soap opera, 'One Man's Family'. A touch of soiling to the rear cover. A radio script in hardcover, this wee tome remains in remarkably good condition, with consideration of age. Related epemera laid in.

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Book number: 127065

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Keywords: Radio, Entertainment, Radio, Radio Shows, Soap Operas

MOLIÈRE; SAINTE-BEUVE, M.

Oeuvres de Molière; Précédées D'une Notice Sur Sa Vie Et Ses Ouvrages

Paris, Bibliothèque D'éducation Et de Récréation, J. Hetzel. [no date], édition J. Hetzel. (hardcover) Good. 796pp. Undated. 4to. Brown pebbled cloth boards, brown leather backstrip (Lenègre Rel.). Five compartments on spine, raised bands; compartments with decorative borders in gilt, title in gilt to second compartment. Decorative simple borders blindstamped to top and bottom boards. Boards with notable rubbing, especially at extremities; corners bumped; faint soiling. All edges gilt. Silk moire endpapers. Previous owner's last name small at head of first blanco. Starting at front gutter and p.791. Foxing early and late; text block remarkably bright and clean, with only occasional light foxing at extremities of margins. Engraved illus. vignettes. Green ribbon marker. Text in French.

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Book number: 120754

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Keywords: Theatre, French, French Literature, Literature, Literature - France, Plays

BYRNE, DAVID

How Music Works

San Francisco, Mcsweeney's 978-1-936365-53-1. (ISBN: 978-1-936365-53-1). 2013. (hardcover) Fine. 345pp. 8vo. Byrne's celebration of the subject he has spent his life thinking about and an impasssioned argument about the power of music to liberate and affirm life. White covers (thick), titles debossed in black to front and spine. Fine copy, with black and white and full colour photographs and illustrations.

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Book number: 131168

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Keywords: Music, Music 9781936365531

CAMERON, W.J.

The Ford Sunday Evening Hour Talks

Dearborn, Mich. Ford Motor Co.. 1938, 1st reprint. (Mass market paperback) Very good plus. 135pp. 12mo. Brown paper covers. Black lettering and bordering to front. Brown coloured EP's. Clean, white and tight. Due to listener requests, the Ford Motor Co. Published the 39 talks prepared and delivered by W.J. Cameron on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour from September 1937 to June 1938.

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Book number: 113752

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Keywords: Radio, Essays, Ford Motor Co., Lectures, Radio

CAMERON, JAMES R.

Motion Pictures with Sound

Manhattan Beach, N.Y. Cameron Pub. Co.. 1929, 1st edition. (12mo, cloth) Very good in good dust jacket. 393pp. Illus. Scarce dust jacket chipped and stained, closed tears, but present! Some stains to cloth. Former owner's name. Cameron Pub. Co ephemera laid in.

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Book number: 110692

Catalogue: Entertainment

Keywords: Cinema/Film, Film, Movies

CARNIOLUS, JACOBUS GALLUS; (JACOBUS HANDL)

Moralia

Ljubljana, Slovenska Matica. 1968, 1st Edition. (Folio) Near fine. 445pp. Uredil in uvod napisal / Redaction et introduction: Dragotin Cvetko. Bilingual.

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Book number: 203841

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Keywords: Music, Music

CHASE, GILBERT

America's Music; from the Pilgrims to the Present

New York, McGraw-Hill. 1955, 1st Edition. (Cloth) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 733pp. The history of music in America - Preparation; Expansion; Fulfillment.

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Book number: 202580

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Keywords: Music, Pilgrims, United States

CHEKHOV, ANTON

Platonov; a Play in Four Acts and Five Scenes

London, Faber and Faber. 1964. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 195pp. Minor nicks to d.w. - spine faded somewhat. A few pencilled marks. First publication in unabridged English translation of Chekhov's first major play. Translated by David Magarshack.

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Book number: 200330

Catalogue: Entertainment

Keywords: Drama, Russia

COHEN, LEONARD; SIMMONS, SYLVIE

I'm Your Man; The Life of Leonard Cohen

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart 078-0-7710-8040-1. (ISBN: 078-0-7710-8040-1). 2012. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 570pp. 8vo. Biography of Leonard Cohen. Black and white photographs. Fine / fine coppy.

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Book number: 129521

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Keywords: Music, Biographies, Canadian Music, Canadian Poets, Leonard Cohen 0780771080401

THE FELLOWSHIP FOR A CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ORDER; VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS

Awake and Sing! Songs for Singing Democracy

Toronto, The Fellowship for a Christian Social Order (F.C.S.O.) NONE. [00no date]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 96pp. 8vo. Ivory (or buff), age-toned card wrappers, stapled. Lower spine lightly chipped. Song book first compiled for the Fellowship for a Christian Order, then published with the hope that it would also meet the needs of many oher groups. Includes scores and lyrics. Foreword by Barbara Case and Helen Freeman.

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Book number: 131161

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Keywords: Music, Song Books

CUMMINS, WILLIS

Calypsos, Symphonies and Incest

Toronto, Arawak Publishing House, Limited. 1974, 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good in good dust jacket. 123pp. 8vo. Jacket illustrated with the author's commissioned canvas from Virgil Broodhagen on front wrapper, photograph of the author by John A. Buchan on rear wrapper. Price neatly blacked out with marker, but unclipped. Notable closed tear to the front of the dust jacket, neatly repaired with tape at verso. Internally, tight and clean. "A hard hitting, carefully constructed indictment of Western European society. The author utilizes the medium of music as a mirror with which to present some startling , disturbing and definitive statements on the status of women, and homosexuality. He shrewdly weaves a strong case against the social divisiveness of Western European music (classical music), in all cultures, and remarkably presents a new refreshing perspective of folk music, modern jazz, and calypso"..or so says the jacket flap.

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Book number: 117558

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Keywords: Music, Folk Music, Jazz

DEUTSCH, HELEN; HANAU, STELLA

The Provincetown; a Story of the Theatre

New York, Farrar & Rinehart. 1931, 1st edition. (Cloth) Good to very good in good dust jacket. 313pp. Frontispiece, illus. ports. - plates. Unclipped dust wrapper shows shelf wear, short closed tears, edges chipped / frayed, sunned. A single inobtrusive bump to top edge of top board. Top edges dusty, but internally without fault.

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Book number: 110599

Catalogue: Entertainment

Keywords: Theatre

EISLER, HANNS

Composing for the Films

New York, Oxford. 1947. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 165pp. Price-clipped wrapper uncommonly good. Theodor Adorno had a hand in the authorship and is acknowledged in later editions.

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Book number: 200570

Catalogue: Entertainment

Keywords: Music, Popular Culture

ELLIOTT, J.W.

National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs

London, George Routledge and Sons. [circa 1880]. (4to, cloth) Very good plus. 111pp. Illus. Pictorial cover with gilt. Engravings by the Brothers Dalziel.

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Book number: 200581

Catalogue: Entertainment

Keywords: Music, Art, Juvenile