AREM, JOCELYN

Caffe Lena: Inside America's Legendary Folk Music Coffeehouse

NY, powerHouse Books. 2013, 1st. (ISBN: 9781576876527). Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: powerHouse Books, 2013, first printing. 4to. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4", 289pp. profusely illustrated with never seen before images. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009990

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: 9781576876527

DOLPH, EDWARD ARTHUR

Sound Off!": Soldier Songs From Yankee Doodle to Parley Voo

NY, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. 1929, 1st. Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929. 4to. 8" x 10 1/2", xv+621pp. bibliography, index of first lines. Illustrated by Lawrence Schick. Music Arranged by Philip Egner; foreword by Peter B. Kyne. Frontis is reproduction of a drawing by James McNeil whistler done in 1852, when he was a cadet at west Point. Tan decorative cloth with blue titles and pictorial, all edge tinting. trace or rub at the edges, else very good plus, clean, bright, binding strong. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009854

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Military History

GIDDINS, GARY

Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker

NY, Beech Tree Books. 1986, 1st. (ISBN: 0688059503). Hard, Folio. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Beech Tree Books, 1986. Folio, 9" x 12 1/8", 128pp. illustrated with b/w photographs. Gray cloth with silver spine titles and gray paper coved boards. Near fine in very good dust jacket with a few short, closed tears. "Profiles the influential musician from his early life in Kansas City to his death in 1955.". Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 009758

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: 0688059503

GUTMAN, ROBERT W.; CULSHAW, JOHN; SHAW, BERNARD

Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind and His Music; Ring Resounding; The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on Wagner's Ring Cycle. 3 Vols in Slipcase

NY, Time. 1972. Hard, 4to. Hard covers in publisher's slipcase. Published NY: Time, 1972. Time-Life Records special edition. 4to.'s, 8 1/2" x 10 1/4", xx+537; 278; xxix+114pp. illustrated with b/w reproductions, some color. Near fine in very good slipcase. Near Fine.

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Book number: 009922

Catalogue: Music

HENTOFF, NAT

Jazz Is

NY, Random House. 1976, 1st. (ISBN: 039440095x). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1976. 8vo. 288pp. illustrated with b/w photographs. Blue cloth with silver titles and blind embossed blue paper covered boards. Light foxing on top and front edge of page block. Very good plus - clean, bright, unmarked in very good plus dust jacket with an internal tape repair and a short, closed tear. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

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Book number: 009764

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: 039440095x

MCKINNEY, HOWARD D.; ANDERSON, W. R.

Music in History

NY, American Book Co. 1949. Hard, 8vo. Hard cover. Published NY: American Book Co. 1949. 8vo. xxi+904 pp. illustrated with b/w photos. Wrinkling to top corner of last 100 pages, pencil underlining in one chapter, corner of front flyleaf removed. Good. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009772

Catalogue: Music

MITCHELL, WILLIAM J.

Elementary Harmony

NY, Prentice-Hall. 1939, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hardcover. Published NY: Prentice-Hall, 1939. 8vo. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4." xv+264pp. Dark blue buckram with gilt lettering, Spine lettering dull, minor light sweating stain to top page corners. Very good plus. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000947

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Mitchell William Elementary Harmony Music

MYRUS, DONALD

Ballads, Blues, And The Big Beat

NY, Macmillan. 1966, 1st. Hard, 8vo. Illus, First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Macmillan, 1966. 136pp. illus. b/w photos. Ex-library copy with pocket and small bar code label on rear pastedown, rubber stamp top edge, dj glued on. No writing or markings to text.Very good copy in dj. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000616

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Myrus Donald Ballads Blues Big Beat First Edition Music Jazz

PERETTI, BURTON W.

The Creation of Jazz : Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America

Illinois, University of Illinois Press. 1994. (ISBN: 0252064216). Soft Cover, 8vo. Trade softcover. Published Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994. 8vo. wrappers, xii+277pp. illustrated with b/w photos. Minor corner curl. Very good plus, clean, bright. "This fascinating account of how the racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that was jazz is the first comprehensive analysis of the role of jazz in its formative years.". Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009195

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: 0252064216

ROREM, NED

The New York Diary of Ned Rorem

NY, Brazillier. 1967. Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Brazillier, 1967, first printing. 8vo. 218pp. illustrated with b/w photos. Black cloth with silver and red titles, top edge tinted black. Near fine in very good dust jacket with mild fray at the spine ends. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 010225

Catalogue: Music

SCHULLER, GUNTHER

Early Jazz; Its Roots and Musical Development

NY, Oxford Univ Pr. 1968, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford Univ Pr. 1968. 8vo. xii+401pp. illustrated with musical examples. Blue cloth with gilt titles and silver designs. Tape reinforcement to inner rear hinge - hinge tight and secure, tape ghosts on covers, faint stain on front edge of page block, else very good, bright, unmarked in very good dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009817

Catalogue: Music

SKELTON, GEOFFREY

Wieland Wagner: The Positive Sceptic

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1971, 1st. (ISBN: 0575007095). Hard, 8vo. First edition Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Victor Gollancz, 1971, first printing. 8vo. 222pp. illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 007194

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: 0575007095

STEPHENSON, SAM

The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965

NY, Knopf. 2009, 1st. (ISBN: 9780307267092). Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 2009, first printing. 4to. 9 3/4" x 11 1/4", xv+268pp. illustrated with 227 photographs in color and black and white. Black laminated boards with orange and white titles. "From 1957 to 1965, Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at his loft, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career, photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as well as life on the streets of the flower district, as seen from his fourth-floor window. He wired the building like a surreptitious recording studio and made 1,740 reels (4,000 hours) of stereo and mono audiotapes, capturing more than 300 musicians, among them Roy Haynes, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry, and Paul Bley. He recorded, as well, legends such as pianists Eddie Costa, and Sonny Clark, drummers Ronnie Free and Edgar Bateman, saxophonist Lin Halliday, bassist Henry Grimes, and multi-instrumentalist Eddie Listengart." Presentation signature on fly leaf, else very good plus in very good dust jacket with a closed tear at the front flap fold. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

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Book number: 010132

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: 9780307267092

TARUSKIN, RICHARD; GIBBS, CHRISTOPHER H.

The Oxford History of Western Music: College Edition (Instructor's Edition)

NY, Oxford Univ Pr. 2013, 1st. Hard, 4to. Instructor's Edition. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford Univ Pr. 2013, first printing. 4to. 8 1/2" x 10 1/4", xxxi+1212pp. extensively illustrated with color reproductions and musical examples. Fine, like new in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009777

Catalogue: Music

HOWARD, JOHN TASKER AND GEORGE KENT BELLOWS

A Short History of Music in America

NY, Thomas Y. Crowell. 1967. (ISBN: 0815201621). Soft Cover, 8vo. Softcover. Published NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967. 8vo. wrappers, xxvii+496pp. illustrated with b/w plates. "Not For Resale" stamp on bottom edge. Very good, clean, bright. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 010100

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: 0815201621