Milwaukee: Geo. Brunder, [1883]. Softcover. Good. 13 cm (ca. 5"), pp 110 , [2] (index); original sewn wrappers, with decorative initials and wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Final leaf (index of songs) and back cover are damaged, with some loss, chipping to corners of front cover; otherwise very good. An uncommon..... Item #21644
Softcover. Very good. Collection of 25 pieces of sheet music issued as Sunday supplements to the San Francisco Examiner, each 4 pp, 14 x 10.5 inches, printed on thick newsprint. All with the name "R. James" in ink on the cover, a few with short tears at margins or light..... Item #21298
[New York]: Printed by Snowden for the Box Office of the Opera House, 1851. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Libretto for the Italian version of this opera (first performed in French), with English translation on facing pages. 59 pp, in original printed wrappers. Split in paper at base of spine..... Item #22390
Seattle, WA: AMR Publishing, 1984. Softcover. Very good. Second printing. 8.25 x 11 inches, 221 pp, extensively illustrated. Comb binding. Covers rubbed, contents clean and sound. Title page notes that the volume includes song hits of the era, remote equipment, new model announcements, special related news articles, ads of the..... Item #21220
London: Faber and Faber, 2017. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Later printing. Fine copy in fine jacket, signed by Bragg on the title page. The first book to provide an in-depth examination of the history and evolution of skiffle, "a uniquely British take on American folk and blues."..... Item #20574
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Philadelphia, PA: American Folklore Society, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 188 pp, with bibliography, index. Light shelf wear, spots of nibbling to boards; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Bibliographical Series Volume II. This volume is meant "to offer the ballad scholar, and particularly the student of ballad variation..... Item #1905
New York: The Academy of Music, Wynkoop & Hellenbeck, Printers. Softcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1850s. 6.5 x 10 in., pp. 18 (libretto), [4] (selections from the musical score), in original illustrated wrappers. Ads for Weber pianos on inner wrappers and back cover. Moderate soiling and general handling wear to wrappers;..... Item #21779
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Good+ dust jacket. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 18 pp, indexed, with pictorial endpapers, 3 color plates, and several smaller illustrations in the text. Black cloth binding with illustration of a man playing the accordion..... Item #12279
Softcover. Very Good. 100 pp + song index, with song lyrics (not sheet music), b/w illustrations from photographs, in original illustrated wrappers. Light handling wear to wrappers, sticker on rear cover; else clean and sound. No publication information. "This book is not meant in any way to flaunt me or..... Item #2333
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 424 pp, in blue pebbled cloth with paper spine label. Corners lightly bumped, light soiling to boards; contents clean, partially unopened. From the Introduction: "These songs are a species of composition entirely by themselves. They have no affinity with our..... Item #2929
New York: George Braziller, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Very Good dust jacket. xv, 240 pp + illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown, some offsetting to endpapers; else fine. Dust jacket has some uneven discoloration from sun exposure, an old sticker shadow, and chipping to head of spine..... Item #1780
Softcover. Near fine. No publication information given. [38] pp, 8.5 x 11 inches, comb binding. Clean, with minimal handling wear. Reproduces sheet music for twelve (presumably out-of-copyright) pieces with themes relating to Santa Cruz County, California. See accompanying images for a list of titles. Item #21773
New York: Dover, 1975. Softcover. Very good. Two-volume set. Oversized paperbacks. Both volumes clean and tight, with no internal markings. Volume I has moderate handling wear; Volume II has a crease in the front cover near the spine, but is otherwise as-new. Due to size, shipping cost will be more..... Item #14174
Boston: Henry Prentiss, 1836. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Sheet music, 3 pp, disbound from a larger volume, with a very nice cover lithograph illustration of a military exercise and encampment on Boston Common, with the Old Elm at left. Corners chipped, but still an attractive example. Schmidt composed several..... Item #22046
