University of Rochester Press, December 2015. Hardcover. Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates..... More
H.W. Gray Co, January 1933. Soft Cover. Sunned spine; mild shelf wear. Good+ copy without markings. Sound binding. More
Viking Adult, July 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. In spine-sunned dust jacket. Marginal discoloration & foxing, but text is clean. More
Impetus Publications, 1977. Stapled Magazine. (Eight & 1/2-inch x 11 & 3/4-inch) Clean, bright. Very good+/fine overall. Slightly bruised top & bottom corner of spine edge. Else remarkably well persevered. Page(s) 269/270 is not completly cut at lower right corner during production. It is folded, so it does not stick..... More
Easton Press, January 1992. First American. Leather. Navy blue leather with gold lettering and gold decor. Moire end pages. Easton Press bookplate affixed to front pastedown, with previous owner's typed name. Otherwise like new overall. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. 8 photographic plates printed double-sided with b&w photos. 'This..... More
Oxford at The Clarendon Press, January 1931. Cloth. Uk edition. Brown cloth with gold lettering along spine in tan cloth edgeworn, especially at top. Darkened spine. NOT price clipped. Original price 5s. net on flap. 2ND UK edition. Several old ink & stamp markings (previous owner's name/old inked price/small stamp..... More
Paragon House, October 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in heavy pale grey cloth with bright silver lettering along the spine. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Abrams, January 1983. Cloth. Beautiful blood red cloth binding, embossed on the front board and lettered in gold along the spine. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Liveright, April 2015. Hardcover. A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler..... More
Doubleday/ Anchor, 1955. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Foxing/darkening to cover, spine is especially darkened. Mild wear to edges & corners. Dust staining to textblock top edge and fore-edge. (244 pages plus four page list of Anchor available titles.). More
Prentice Hall, July 2003. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. For freshman/sophomore-level courses in music appreciation. Masterworks, Portfolio Edition is a price-friendly alternative to traditional music appreciation texts. Consisting of a textbook and a free music compact disk included with every text, Masterworks, Portfolio Edition is designed to introduce students to the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2021. Hardcover. In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorák prophesied a great and noble school of American classical music based on the searing negro melodies he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular..... More
Workman Publishing, September 1999. Trade Paperback. Berlioz. Vaughan Williams. Schubert and Schumann. Mozart after the Jupiter Symphony, Bach beyond the Brandenburg Concertos, opera after The Magic Flute. In his informed and indispensible guide with over 157,000 copies in print, National Public Radio's Ted Libbey takes listeners by the hand through..... More
Edwin F. Kalmus (Publisher of Music). Pamphlet. Stapled Pamphlet; Sound; Clean interior. More
Edwin F. Kalmus (Publisher of Music). Pamphlet. Stapled Pamphlet; 32 pages. Clean, sound, one pencil notes on one page. No date listed. More
Ariadne Press (CA), August 1997. Paper Back. More
Ayer Co Pub, June 1971. Hardcover. More
A.A. Knopf, January 1944. First Edition. Cloth. Dustjacket is missing. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Octavo. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Slightly cocked. Bruised corners. Non-authorial gift inscription inside front free end page and previous owner's name inked same page. 127 pages plus 7 page index..... More
W.W. Norton, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. First American edition in price-clipped dustjacket. Dark grey cloth with gold lettering one spine. Title is framed in red rectangle. Sound binding. Clean, without internal markings. Very good+/fine overall. More
Easton Press, 1992. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather bound with gold lettering on spine. Likewise gold decorative panels front and back cover. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. Easton Press unused Ex-Libris laid in. Moire end pages. Signed by SCHONBERG on special page after FFEP. (427 pp.). More
Edwin F. Kalmus, January 1932. Stapled Soft Cover. Some marginal notes. More
Grossman Publishers, January 1972. First American. Hardcover. First US in mildly edgeworn jacket with crease in front flap. NOT price clipped. Original price of $15 on flap. Red cloth. More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1999. First Trade. Hardcover. There is no more beloved musician in the classical world than Isaac Stern, revered not only as a great violinist but also as a generous personality and a crucial figure in the world of the arts. One of the few people who..... More
Amadeus Press, September 2013. Oversize Softcover. Richard Wagner: The Lighter Side appeals to classical music and opera enthusiasts in general, but particularly the many thousands of members of the 135 Wagner Societies around the world. There are many books about every aspect of Wagner's life and works, but none has..... More
Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. First U.K. edition without dustjacket. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Volume Two is worn & a bit frayed along back edge of spine. Two volumes. Darkening/foxing to textblock top edges both volumes with dark grey tiny spots: two..... More
