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Fairfax, VA: The Record Changer, 1947. Paperback. Good plus in wraps, held together with tape at spine. Covers slightly wrinkled and a bit worn around the edges. Interior clean. Music. MUS2/8300. More
Fairfax, VA: The Record Changer, 1947. Paperback. Good plus in wraps, held together with tape at spine. Covers slightly wrinkled and a bit worn around the edges. Interior clean. Music. MUS2/8300. More
Spain: 1650. A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal, Spain, circa 1650, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Text is in a Spanish rounded gothic hand (Rotunda). Music is on a stave formed of five lines. There are six lines of music and verse. Verso: six lines of music and verse. Framed. #2525. Near Fine. More
Spain: 1650. A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal, Spain, circa 1650, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Text is in a Spanish rounded gothic hand (Rotunda). Music is on a stave formed of five lines. There are six lines of music and verse. Verso: six lines of music and verse. Framed. #2537. Near Fine. More
Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1905. Hardcover. SCARCE. 8vo. Very good- in green cloth covered boards with black title and decoration to front board. Minor wear to exterior includes soiling to boards, bumping to spine ends and corners and rubbing. Interior hinges starting but binding remains tight. writing in pen to front free end page. Light browning to page edges and to pages 96 and 97 though text and music remains bright. In German. 264 pages. MUS1/2282. Very Good -. More
London: Augener and Co. Very Good large slim volume containing sheet music to the opera. Corners and spine rubbed with small chip to lower edge of spine. Steel engraved frontis of composer. Previous owner's signature and stamp on front pages. Music. MUS/2043. Very Good. More
Toronto and Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2020. Softcover. Signed by George Walker on the title page. This is the first printing of a nice trade edition of Walker's splendid limited edition work celebrating the 80th birthday (September 21, 2014) of Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen. The eighty wood engravings commemorate Cohen's artistic accomplishments and explore how images of Leonard Cohen have appeared in popular culture over his six decade career. The black and white engravings are arranged chronologically and depict scenes from Cohen's varied creative endeavors. The book also presents portraits of some of the many famous people in his life, including Allan Ginsberg, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Andy Warhol. Softcover in white stiff paper covers with red and black titling and image of Cohen on front cover. In fine condition. 190 pages. MUSIC/102020. Fine. More
Toronto: George A. Walker, 2014. Hardcover. Number 41 of 80 copies. Signed by Walker, Ravvin, and Smart. Master engraver George Walker has created this splendid work celebrating the 80th birthday (September 21, 2014) of Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen. The eighty wood engravings commemorate Cohen's artistic accomplishments and explore how images of Leonard Cohen have appeared in popular culture over his six decade career. The black and white engravings are arranged chronologically and depict scenes from Cohen's varied creative endeavors. The book also presents portraits of some of the many famous people in his life, including Allan Ginsberg, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Andy Warhol. In his images Walker strives to communicate the importance of Cohen's Zen Buddhist philosophy and plays with numerology and the symbolism behind the number 8. This beautiful book took over one year to make. The engravings were hand printed on Folio Rising Stonehenge archival rag paper. The text pages used Garamond type for the text body and Bernhard for the headings. Bound in black Japanese Asahi bookcloth and housed in a clamshell box covered in the same cloth. The book cover has an inset of an engraved portrait of Cohen and has a brown cloth spine label. A different portrait is inset on the clamshell box. 6 1/4 x 8 x 2 1/2 inches. Unpaginated (22 pages printed recto). PRI/071122. Fine. More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, circa 1900. Hardcover. Maple Leaf Series. Illustrated. Light brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine and green and brown illustration of maple leaves to front cover and spine. Minor sunning to spine, slight crease to top corner of front cover, and a few spots of soiling to boards and spine. Chipping to edges of some pages and minor browning to margins of pages. Clean and bright overall. Patterned endpapers. 224 pages plus 4 pages of ads. MUS/041718. Very Good. More
New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1856. Hardcover. Leather spine and tan paper covered boards. Much of spine has been chipped away, and boards are detached. Boards are scuffed, somewhat stained, and top board has 1 burn mark. Partially unbound. Notes in pen on front endpaper. Light stain to upper righthand corner of a few pages, but mostly pages are still in nice shape. Music. MUS3/4250. Good. More
Brimingham: Sir Gerald Nabarro, Ltd., 1973. Hardcover. VG+ brown & gilt cloth boards in VG pictorial d.j. 8vo. 24 pp. b/w and color photographs. Interior clean and bright. History of Eisteddfod musical festival. Text in English and Welsh. Music. MUS/3033. Very Good. More