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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
Philadelphia: Thomas Parker Williams, 2023. A unique artist's book by noted book artist and composer Thomas Parker Williams, signed and dated by him. Williams began creating artists' books in 1998 while also painting. As of 2009 he has limited his art practice exclusively to artists' books. He often creates videos and composes music to accompany his books that may be found on his website (www.thomasparkerwilliams.com). Books by Williams or the Luminice Press imprint under which he and his wife Mary Agnes Williams issue books, may be found in 88 public collections around the country including the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. This complex and inventive work is a visual transcription of a composition composed and recorded by Williams in December 2023. All artwork, music composition, drum programming, recording and performance (all instruments) by Thomas Parker Williams. It features music created like a DJ performance with jazz inspired solos on saxophones and an electronic wind instrument (a video of the book with music performance is available on the artist's website). The triangular book opens to a double-sided hexagram.The first side of the work is an accurate visual transcription through time of the composition, assigning colors and shapes to the various instruments. Colors were assigned as follows: Dark blue, browns, orange and grays - drums and rhythm instruments; Green, lighter blue, red, violet and yellows - keyboard instruments; Ocher and yellow - electronic wind instrument; Gold and copper - saxophones. The drawing is divided into 41 sections arranged in a clockwise rotation. Each division is 21.6 seconds long and illustrateds the time period of eighteen 6/8 measures at 150 beats per minute. This is the rhythmic base for the entire composition, and the shapes mark the accurate time and duration of instruments in the work. The second side is an abstract representation of possible moods suggested by the music as it progresses through the five sections. The artist's notes and working papers are available with the purchase of this striking work. The book is comprised of 6 double sided triangular panels hinged to open to a hexagon. The first side is done in Acrylic ink, markers, and colored pencil. The second side is done in dry pigments in alkyd medium and acrylic inks. Printed on Strathmore 400 series acrylic paper. In a slipcase painted in the same colors as the book and protected by a black paper folder. In fine condition. Measures 10 x 12 x .25 inches closed and 21 x 21 inches open. ARTB/041524. Fine. More
Philadelphia: Thomas Parker Williams, 2023. A unique four-section artist's book by noted book artist and composer Thomas Parker Williams, signed and dated by him on each of the separate panels comprising the work. Williams began creating artists' books in 1998 while also painting. As of 2009 he has limited his art practice exclusively to artists' books. He often creates videos and composes music to accompany his books that may be found on his website (www.thomasparkerwilliams.com). Books by Williams or the Luminice Press imprint under which he and his wife Mary Agnes Williams issue books, may be found in 88 public collections around the country including the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. and the National Gallery of Art. This work is part of Williams's WORDLESS series- Painted and Drawn Narratives that are unique books with many different structures that contain a wordless narrative executed in multiple media. Transcriptions is a subset of the Wordless – Painted and Drawn Narratives series. Prime Number Meters are part of the Transcriptions series. All artwork, music composition, recording and performance (all instruments) by Thomas Parker Williams. The musical compositions are available through his website (thomasparkerwilliams.com). This fascinating and complex work is based on experimental original music compositions using four prime numbers, 3, 5, 7 and 11, as the upper number of the time signature of an eight-beat measure. These time signatures, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8 and 11/8, result in music with a very different feeling than the 4/4 rhythm commonly used. All rhythms in Prime Number Meters are programmed to run at a tempo of 200 beats per minute. The visual works of three panels for each section are literal transcriptions of the music. The color panels on the front of each set convey the mood created by the music, and are accurate in horizontal distance to the tempo. The reverse side of the panels illustrate the programmed rhythm sections in music notation. The covers, resembling LP covers, illustrate an enlarged section of the color panels. Each of the time signatures is shown in a separate section of drawings and panels, each housed in a black paper folder. with the title of that section's time signature on a paper label on the front flap of its folder. The work comprises 4 sets of drawings and covers consisting of a cover 12 x 12 x.25 inches and three hinged panels each 11.75 inches diameter. Each set of panels open to 35 inches. The paper used for this production is Strathmore 400 series acrylic sheets. Williams used dry pigments in alkyd medium, acrylic inks, enamel and pigment markers to create the color panels and the rhythm sections in music notation. The bindings are a disappearing hinge structure. The artist's working papers are available with the purchase of this work. In fine condition. $1,750 for each section or $6,000 for all four sections. ARTB/041724. Fine. 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