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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library hardcover no dj (aqua boards) in very nice condition with the usual library markings and attachments.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good.

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). New York, NY: H. W. Wilson Company. G/No Dustjacket. 1969. . Cloth. Sm 4to., 639 pp., exlibrary with marks and stamping .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex library w/ markings, slight edgewear on teal cloth, no jacket, tight binding, clean text Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. No Printing Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. No Printing Stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A collection of articles about some of the greatest composers the world has ever known by noted music critics. Includes Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Wagner, Brahms, Debussy and more. 357 pages. Light shealf wear. Overall nice copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 246 pages; nameplate on first end page. End pages and page edges show age toning. Red cloth boards have slight age fading on some edges. DJ has age toned and has numerous open and closed tearing, but in Brodart cover. Not price clipped ($5.00). This book is GOOD+++ in a FAIR jacket.

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). New York, NY: H. W. Wilson Company. G/No Dustjacket. 1966. . Cloth. Sm 4to., 429 pp., exlibrary with marks and stamping .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. xii, 357p. Publishers hardback with the original dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Some tears to the dust jacket rear cover and chips along the extremities. Internally clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ex-library, light shelf wear, text clean and tight, scoring on back cover.

Paperback. Condition: Fair / Good. New Ediition. 371 pages. paperback with bronzing and fading to colour of spine-titles, light bronzing to edges of covers. Page-edges a little yellowed o/w pages clean and sound.

Condition: Fair. 1946. 2nd Printing. 390 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are visibly tanned with notable foxing throughout. Dust marks to pastedowns and endpapers with pencil marks. Missing front free endpaper. Small tear to rear free endpaper. Binding is shaky. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surface. Notable staining, bubbling and scratching to boards. Moderate sunning to spine with noticeable crushing to spine ends. Book has mild forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Ex-Library. 4to, Blue boards with gilt letters. Reference plate on rear endpaper. Usual ex-library stamps. This volume, provides detailed biographical, critical, and personal information about 432 of the most distinguished performing musicians in concert and opera since 1900. 974 pages. 01.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Good paperback. Reprint. Some pages have underlining and margin writing. Name on front endpaper. Corners rubbed. Crease on spine.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. 217pp. Illustrations. Very good. Other than a homely brown vertical strip of glue stain on each pastedown and the front flyleaf, this is a superb, tight and attractive first edition of this first-of-its-kind influential biographical dictionary. The most discreet ex-library copy imaginable, with almost no markings.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth. 390pp. Illustrations. Very good. Other than a homely brown vertical strip of glue stain on each pastedown and the front flyleaf, this is a superb, tight and attractive fourth printing of this popular 1940 biographical dictionary. "Compliments of the Author" printed card tipped to inside flyleaf. The most discreet ex-library copy imaginable, with almost no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Birnbaum, A (illustrator). 160pp. Grey cloth-covered boards; brown design on front, brown titles on spine; fore text block edge untrimmed. 4to. Bumped bottom corners, rubbed spine ends, with some red staining on rear panel. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers starting to tan; bookseller's label on front pastedown. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket worn and tanning, has some shelf wear, small closed tear, chipping to edges, sunned over spine, with some red bleeding on rear panel and interior (likely from past water exposure).

A Comprehensive Biographical and Critical Guide to Modern Composers of All Nations. NY: H.W. Wilson Co, 1934. [First Edition]. 314p.Numerous halftone portraits. 26x18cm, cloth. There's 2p on Gershwin, entries for Holst, Elgar, Janacek. Cover rubbed & soiled, else VG.

1978 1st edition with B&W illustrations; tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine; light wear and bumping to corners. Top page fore-edge yellowed/foxed; owner's name on back paste-down; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good (with wear to cover). Dust Jacket Condition: Frayed DJ. A comprehensive chronicle of the major events in the American musical scene amplified by a number of detailed and valuable appendices and checklists. 551pp. (loc 943/1).

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: H. W. Wilson Company. Good/Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 314 pp., DJ edge rubbed, frayed, cover edges rubbed, writing on ffe .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. New Dover edition paperback, 1959, in overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dust Jacket. 16 Reproductions Of Paintings By George Gershwin, Sixteen Portraits, Painting By Alfaro Siqueiros, Caricatures By Peggy Bacon And Miguel Covarrubias, Endpapers By Carlos Dyer, Hand Lettered Title Page By William Stutz (illustrator). First Edition. 252 Pp. First Edition, Limited Issue: Covers Printed With Black And Yellow Background [Trade Issue Was Red And Yellow Cloth, Later Issue Is All Red Cloth]; Title Page Black Printing Slightly Higher Than Later Printings, With Text "Painting By Siqueiros" On Title Page Touching The Illustration Above [ A Mis-Alignment Corrected In Most But Not All Copies Of The Trade Edition]; Lacking The Colophon Page At End, Which Is Represented Only By A Stub [A Defect Also Found In Some Copies In The Trade Binding]. Merle Armitage's Well-Designed And Edited Collection Of Tributes To George Gershwin From Luminaries Including His Brother Ira, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Paul Whiteman, Walter Damrosch, Dubose Heyward, Irving Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg, Serge Koussevitzky, And Jerome Kern. Near Fine, Rubbing To Bottom Corners. Dj With Light Wear And Slight Browning To Spine And Edges, Small Losses At Corners Of Spine, 1" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel. Not Price-Clipped. The Book Title Is Not Uncommon, But Usually Found Only In The Yellow And Red Trade Issue Or The Later All-Red Binding (With Corrected Title Page Alignment), And Is Becoming Scarce In Well-Preserved Dust Jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 16 Reproductions Of Paintings By George Gershwin, Sixteen Portraits, Painting By Alfaro Siqueiros, Caricatures By Peggy Bacon And Miguel Covarrubias, Endpapers By Carlos Dyer, Hand Lettered Title Page By William Stutz (illustrator). First Edition. 252 Pp. First Edition, Trade Issue: Covers Printed With Red And Yellow Background [Limited Edition Is Black And Yellow, Later Issues Are All Red]; Title Page Black Printing Slightly Higher Than Later Printings, With Text "Painting By Siqueros" On Title Page Touching The Illustration Above [ Alignment Corrected In Most Copies Of The Trade Edition And Later Printings]; Lacking The Colophon Page At End, Which Is Represented Only By A Stub Which Does Not Appear To Have Been Trimmed [A Defect Also Found In Some Copies In The Limited Edition Binding]. Merle Armitage's Well-Designed And Edited Collection Of Tributes To George Gershwin From Luminaries Including His Brother Ira, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Paul Whiteman, Walter Damrosch, Dubose Heyward, Irving Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg, Serge Koussevitzky, And Jerome Kern. Near Fine, Rubbing Along Bottom Edge. Dj With Moderate Wear, A Few Very Small Chips, Light Soiling To Front And Rear Panels With Browning To Spine Panel. Not Price-Clipped. The Book Is Not Uncommon, But Usually Found Only In The Later All-Red Binding (With Corrected Title Page Alignment).

1st edn. 2 vols in 1. Oblong Folio (18½ x 22¾ ins). Original screw post bound gilt lettered red cloth (upper board a little bowed, bumped at tail of spine and corners - otherwise VG). Unpaginated, illus with coloured maps and b&w plates (front and rear paste-downs worn at edges and faint spotting on prelims; no inscriptions).