Abbe Niles (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Clean and tight, with light toning of the pages and light shelfwear to the covers. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; Da Capo Paperback; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches; 340 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). First Printing. This is a near fine hardcover ex-library copy in red cloth with silver lettering, no DJ. Minimal exlib markings. A bright attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good first edition. "Complete words and music of 67 great songs from Memphis Blues to the present day". Light wear and bumping to spine ends, edges, corners. Age-toning to pages throughout, as is common. Good dust jacket. Price-clipped. General wear, including to spine ends and edges, with some chipping. Some rubbing to covers. Overall a nice first edition copy, edited by W.C. Handy, and with a critical text by Abbe Niles.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; otherwise in excellent condition. Acceptable Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket condition: Fair. Jacket soiled and chipped and worn at edges. Text free of highlighting and writing. Edited by W.C. Handy ; with an historical and critical text by Abbe Niles ; with pictures by Miguel Covarrubias. Chiefly for voice and piano (in part with chord symbols and guitar or ukulele chord diagrams); some works for piano solo. First edition published in 1926 under title: Blues : an anthology. 1 score (258 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm Contents:Train's a-coming -- Let us cheer the weary traveller -- Somebody's wrong about dis Bible -- Joe Jacobs -- Goin' to see my Sarah -- Sail away, ladies --- Come on, Eph! -- Juba -- East St. Louis -- A typical stomp -- Careless love -- Ever after on -- Vesta and Mattie's blues -- Got no mo' home dan a dog -- Friendless blues -- The Memphis blues -- Dallas blues -- The jogo blues -- St. Louis blues -- Yellow dog blues -- The long lost blues -- Florida blues -- Kansas City -- The hesitating blues -- Joe Turner blues -- The snakey blues -- Rice Hotel blues -- Beale Street blues -- Tishomingo blues -- Barnyard blues (Livery stable blues) -- Hooking cow blues -- West Texas blues -- Goin' down that long long lonesome road -- Royal Garden blues -- Aunt Hagar's children -- Loveless love -- You'll think of me -- Sundown blues -- Gulf Coast blues -- The basement blues -- Weeping willow blues (after Bessie Smith) -- Banjo blues -- Mississippi blues (Bamville croon) -- Mountain top blues (Blue mama's suicide wail) -- Rock pile blues (Mama's prison yard blues) -- Deep river blues -- The blues I've got -- Basin Street blues -- Beat me daddy, eight to the bar -- Boogie-woogie on St. Louis blues -- Baby seals blues -- Chinese blues -- Ole Miss -- Homesickness blues (excerpt) -- Long gone -- The schoolhouse blues -- Harlem blues -- John Henry blues -- Atlanta blues (Make me one pallet on your floor) -- The Chicago gouge -- The half of it, dearie, blues -- Chantez les bas -- Willow, weep for me -- Hong Kong blues -- Krazy kat ballet (excerpt) -- Rhapsody in blue (excerpt) ; Concerto in F (excerpt) / George Gershwin.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition with wear and markings. Ex-library.

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Copyright is 1930. 205 pages, plus lyrics and music for several related pieces. Red cloth covers show a little light wear and a couple of small stains. Front free end leaf and title page with small paperclip indention on upper edge. Otherwise a tight and very clean copy. Due to weight, additional charges will apply for International shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: good. First edition. Quarto. (30cm x 22cm) 180pp. Some fading to blue lettering on cover. Light soiling to covers. Interior is very good. Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias.

Hardocover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Covarrubias, Miguel (illustrator). Early edition. 258 pp. Red and gray boards with authors' signatures in gold on front. Lettering also on spine. This is a very nice copy save for a half-inch tear on the corner of the rear corner. Minor rubbing ot he extremities. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrations are charming. Dust jacket is unclipped, with original price on flap of $5.00. One small chip on top front and back corner. Size: Quarto. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Charles Boni; Distributed By Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition, 1949. Good to very good in fair to good dustjacket. Music and lyrics with occasional black and white illustrations. Black hardcover with red cloth spine, with dustjacket. The book has some edge rubbing, maily the lower edge, good hinges, sound text block, lightly age-toned but clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [5.00] and has an old tape repair along the front joint, other quite minor wear, almost no paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, stated second printing. Original blue cloth, index of names, xv + 317 pp. Hardcover, near fine in good dustjacket. Dustjacket lightly age yellowed, 2 inch tear and corresponding crease on rear panel, several lesser tears and chips, price present. Book itself has lower corners bumped, touch of fading on spine, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Autobiography; biography; African-American; Black memorabilia; music.

HARDCOVER BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. not price clipped ($3.00), general wear, good tight binding, bookplate on inside of front board, text is clean and bright, newspaper clip pasted to inside of back board with the title "W.C. Handy Succumbs at 84; Composer Of 'St. Louis Blues''', illustrated with B & W photographs DATE PUBLISHED: 1944 EDITION: 317.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD+. JACKET: TORN DJ. SECOND PRINTIN. Book Condition: General shelf wear, rubbed extremities, slightly soiled cover, faded spine, slightly soiled edges of cover & spine, light foxing to pages, and light foxing to fore edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-, general wear, creased/chipped edges, rubbed cover & extremities, some closed tears, lightly age-toned. DATE PUBLISHED: 1941 EDITION: SECOND PRINTIN 317.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). Signed and dated by W.C. Handy to front fly. Quarter red cloth over black paper-covered boards; dustjacket wrapped in mylar. Small tear to head and tail of dustjacket (see image). Overall a nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. 8.25 x 11.25 in.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1941 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 352 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 352.