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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. bbc02 8½"x11"; 106 pages; Soft Pictorial Cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. Due to USPS regulations, this item may require additional postage. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. Each edition comes together with an audio CD, often including BBC recordings of full-length works. The first issue appeared in September 1992. The magazine includes regular columns and reviews of new releases as well as several in depth feature articles by noted music writers. Each issue contains a CD featuring complete works by the greatest composers, performed by world-class artists and ensembles. This issue includes the audio CD "Live From The Proms" (Walton, Symphony No. 1, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Tadaaki Otaka and Takemitsu, 'From Me Flows What You Call Time' (First Recording) performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis). This issue contains the following articles: "from an ivory tower: Was Schubert gay and does it matter?" (published books regarding the medical conditions of composers and the influence on the works of these composers) by John Milsom; "The Eclectic Edge" (ECM Company Profile ) by Gary Booth; "Tuning up: I used to be tone-deaf" (singing in tune is a matter of practice) by Anne Inglis; "Music in Art: 'Broadway Boogie-Woogie' by Piet Mondrian and 'Blue-Green Sound' by Johannes Itten" by Tom Phillips; "Match of the Year" (The Three Tenors, Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti) by Gillian Widdicombe; "The Voice as Athlete" (Singers must be as obsessed with their physical well-being as any athlete) by Cori Ellison; "Encore, Ida" (violinist Ida Haendel 62nd appearance at the Proms) by Tim Smith; "Composer of the Month: Claude Debussy" by Richard Langham-Smith; "The Isle is Full of Noises" (composer Harrison Birtwistle) by Fiona Maddocks; "A CD is Born" (manufacturing and marketing of classical music audio CDs) by Ian Lace; "Building a library: Elgar, Symphony No. 1" by Jerrold Northrop Moore; "Brian Kay's Starter Collection" by Brian Kay; "When kingfishers catch fire" (Classical composers including elements of jazz in their Compositions) by Ian Carr; "Music that changed me" (pianist Barry Douglas) interview by Jessica Duchen.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oregon State University Press, Published 1992. Hardcover, vi, 313 pp.; 23 cm; Northwest Reprints series; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and a map. Edited and introduced by Brian Booth. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Green cloth boards lettered in gilt on front board and spine; mild surface and edge wear. Binding tight. Speckled green endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket, green with black-and-white photograph of Holbrook on front panel and review excerpts on rear panel; mild shelf wear, a few faint scuffs along top edge of front panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Anthology of two dozen pieces by Stewart H. Holbrook (1893-1964), logger turned Oregonian columnist and author of Holy Old Mackinaw, who called his own work "lowbrow" history. Drawn from The American Mercury, Esquire, The New Yorker, American Heritage and his Macmillan books of the 1930s through 1950s, the pieces cover logging camps, Wobblies, skid roads, forest fires and Northwest eccentrics: the Corvallis prophet Joshua II (Franz Edmund Creffield), Bunco Kelly and the Portland crimps, the Tillamook Burn, the Aurora communists, outlaw Harry Tracy, and Arthur Boose, the last Wobbly paper boy. Booth's 40-page biographical introduction draws on family photographs and the Holbrook papers at the University of Washington; the book ends with a checklist of Holbrook's books. Booth founded the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts and the Oregon Book Awards; Portland Magazine named this collection one of the "20 Greatest Oregon Books Ever." Contents: An Introduction to Stewart Holbrook; Death and Times of a Prophet; Daylight in the Swamp; The Affair at Copperfield; Cargoes of Maidens; Anarchists at Home; The Wildest Man of the West; Fire in the Bush; The Three Sirens of Portland; The Cattle King; The Original Nature Man; The Wobblies Come; The Great Tillamook Fire; Saloon in the Timber; Bunco Kelly, King of the Crimps; Opal the Understanding Heart; The Legend of Jim Hill; Erickson's: Elbow Bending for Giants; The Gorse of Bandon; Whistle Punks; Harry Tracy: "King of Western Robbers"; Disaster in June; The Aurora Communists; First Bomb; The Great Homestead Murders; Lumberjacks' Saturday Night; The Last of the Wobblies; Additional Reading; Editor's Note; Acknowledgments.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Signed by Brian Booth on title page; book has some very faint soiling to page ends, otherwise nice copy; DJ has light shelfwear, light crease to front flap; DJ in protective Brodart cover; b/w photos; 313 pages; Signed by Editor.…

ed. hardback very good condition in a very good dust jacket- there is a pen name on the free front end page.

Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. v+314 pages, including editor's notes and index.