Obituary (52 results)

Half Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition with tight binding. The pages have started to yellow slightly and there is slight edge wear on the top and bottom of the book. The jacket has slight smudging on the right hand edge and is worn on the top. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Harold Smith "The Social Democratic Federation 1884-1939" / John Callow "The Lenin of Islington" / Bob Pitt "Red Flag Over Saint Pancras" / Obituary - Bill Alexander (1910-2000) and thre International Brigade Archive" / Robert Laurie "Welsh Labour History" (SL#39).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Illustrated. John Le Rossignol "The Magic Circle Show - 1980-81" / S H Sharpe "Through Magic-Coloured Spectacles" / Cliff Townsend "Magic, a State of Mind" / G E Arrow smith "Easy When You Know How!" / John Salisse "October inLos Angeles" / Peter D Blanchard "Roving Rovi Returns" / Ian Keable-Elliott "The Blenheim Bar" / John Salisse "Siegfried and Roy" / Tom Ellis "'My Kind of Magic' - Alan Saxon" / Stephen Blood "The Psychology of Kid's Magic - Bart Harding" / Charles Goodliffe Neale - Obituary (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Obituary - Harvey Grace (1874-1944) / H G Sear "Russian Music and Shakespeare" / Gerald Abraham "M D Calvocoressi (1877-1944) / W R Anderson "Round About Radio" (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Frank Merrick "Serge Prokofiev's Sixth Piano Sonata" / Patric Stevenson "Pages and Knobs" / W R Anderson "Round About Radio" / Gramophone Notes / Walter Emery "Bach Registration" / Romain Rolland Obituary / Sofia Lissa Docent "Polish Music in the U.S.S.R." / Sheet Music for "The Whole World Rejoices - by Gerald Cockshott"` (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. "Ferruccio Bonavia February 20, 1877 - February 5, 1950 obituary" / Colin Mason "Alan Rawsthorne" / Frank Dawes "A Jig of Morgan's" / W R Anderson "Round about Radio" / Susi Jeans "In Praise of Tremulants" / Reginald Gibbon "Air-Borne" / Music in the Provinces / Aix - Plans for July (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Thomas Armstrong "Sir Hugh Allen obituary" / A Hyatt King "Mozart and the Organ" / Willi Apel's "Harvard Dictionary of Music" reviewed/ sheet-music for "If ye then be risen (David Poole-Connor)" / London Concerts / Academy and College Notes (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 36 pages. Augustus J Littleton 1854-1942 obituary/ P E Kenyon "The Individuality of Keys" / Ralph W Wood "Psychology and Musical Texture" / William McNaught "Arthur Bliss's String Quartet" / Clement Spurling 1870-2942 obituary by Herbert Foss / W R Anderson "Round About Radio" / sheet-music for "The Moon" (George Dyson and Charles Best) / New Music: Franck's Organ Works / Music in Public Schools (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Henry Boys "Bela Bartok obituary" / W S Drew "Legato in Singing" / sheet-misic for "Welcome, Holy Babe (Godfrey Sampson)" / Bartok's"Concerto for Orchestra" (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Donald R Wakeling "A British Union Catalogue of Music" / William C Smith "The Harrow Replicas" / Ian Parrott "The Style of Bach" / "Life of Richard Wagner" by Ernest Newman reviewed / Gramophone Notes "Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat" / W R Anderson "Round About Radio" / Pietro Mascagni obituary/ Novelties at the Promenades / Rudolf Karel, 1880-1945 obituary (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Hubert Parry obituary/ Walter Emery "Bach's Ornaments" / The Musician's Bookshelf / Music in the Foreign Press / Gramophone Notes / W R Anderson "Round About Radio" / Distribution Of Diplomas, January, 1948 / Music in Public Schools / Music in Palestine / Music in Budapest (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Gerald Cockshott "Why So Grum?" / W S Drew "The Sounds of Words in Speech and Song" / Alexandr Brent-Smith "Music in the Wrong Place" / E R Anderson "Round about Radio" / Brahma's Requiem: A New Text" / Opera at Glyndebourne" / Sir Sydney Nicholson - obituary (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Illustrated. Charles Rigby "The Free Trade Hall" / Stainton de B Taylor "Charles Kennedy Scott" / Hubert Foss "Cecil Gray, 1895-1951" obituary / Richard Capell "Stravinsky's Opera -The Rake's Progress" / Adolf Aber "Fritz Busch, 1890-1951" obituary / W R Anderson "Round about Radio" / Robert L Jacobs "The Conservatism of the Public" / J Eric Hunt "The Organ In Attingham Park, Shropshire" / The Three Choirs Festival, Worcester / The Birmingham Festival / The Swansea Festival / The Salzburg Festival / The Bremen Bach Festival (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 44 pages. Illustrated) The Central Music Library, Buckingham Palace Road,London (8 page article) / Hubert Foss "Constant Lambert 23 August 1905 - 21 August 1951" obituary / Frank Walker "Verdi and Vienna - with some unpublished letters" / Adolf Aber "Tradition and Revolution at Bayreuth" / The Birmingham Congress of the Incorporated Association of Organists" / W R Anderson "The Edinburgh Festival" / Joseph E Potts "Orchestral Concerts in Paris" (M13).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Roy Stanton "Black Music In The Movies: A Catalogue" / Scepter Singles Listing part 2 / British Vogue V 9000 Singles Listing part 3 / Alan Balfour "Howlin' Wolf 1910-1976" / Clive Richardson "'Hound Dod' Taylor 1916-1975" / Paul Robeson obituary (M11/1).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A magazine of literature. Featuring an Obituary for Wallace Stegner on -pages 35-36. Also Caribbean Literature, O America, Joseph Bruchac, and Susie Bright chats with Erica Jong. Mailing label on cover,Very good+.

Hardback. Condition: Very good. No dust wrapper. 2009. Obituary notice of J.S. Bach 231.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Barra Boydell "Dublin City Musicians in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to 1660" / F W Gumley "Remembering." / Kevin P O'Rorke "It's a Small World!" / Mrs Olive Goodbody "Old Dun Laoghaire and Neighbourhood" / Dr A E J Went 1910-1980 obituary / Seamus de Burca "Two Small Boys" (SL#85).

Printed Stiff Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 36pp. In this issue: "Kenneth Macgowan--A Man to Remember" by Philip Dunne; "What Every Man Should Know," by songwriter Harry Ruby; "The Great [Mike] Todd Revolution" by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.; "Hollywood--One World Concept" by Sam Spiegel; &c. 9" x 6" [Kenneth Macgowan (1888-1963), American author and film producer, ran the Provincetown Playhouse along with Eugene O'Neill (1922-1924), then focused his experimental-theatre efforts at the Greenwich Village Theatre, before moving to Hollywood as a story editor for RKO, &c., &c. Later, he taught Theatre Arts at UCLA.].

StapleBound. Condition: Very Good. Copyright Date: 1946 Sm Quarto, , PP.185-211 Plus B & W Plates, Includes Copy of Two 1979 Presentation Letters To Dr. Robert Bergad, One From Savitri Sahni Describing The Gift Of Scientific Paper Reprints of Birbal Sahni Institute Papers Held By Dr. Sahni At His Death And A Second Letter From Dr. Shyam Srivastava Who Was Entrusted With The Task From The Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences, India. Vol. 15.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Carol Ann Green "Women of Colour the female Protagonists in the novels of Octavia Butler" / Kev McVeigh interviews Kim Stanley Robinson / Paul Kincaid "British SF Obituary" / Cherith Baldy "Magic in Narnia" (SL#75).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 20 pages. Illustrated. W E H Massey "Letter from Jerusalem (illustrated) April 19, 1888" / Farm News / Household News / Fred Massey's Obituary.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Hjelte, Sue (illustrated by) (illustrator). Limited Edition (so stated). Los Angeles, California: Public Service Publications, 1977. Laid in is a newspaper clipping of the author's Jan 1979 obituary. Near Fine condition. NO chips, tears or creases. Bright and shiny. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparentlly seldom, if ever read. The author, George Hjelte, was known as "Mr. Recreation" to the people of Los Angeles because he was directly responsible for "the creation, planning, or acquiring of many parks that now serve the Los Angeles metropolitan area." -- from Susan Hudson's Doctoral Disseration, University of Utah, 1974. Author portrait. Numerous b/w drawings by Sue Hjelte. Map endpapers. Index. Bound in the original green cloth, lettered in shiny gold. From the Preface: "The book draws on interesting biographical facts tending to illuminate and embellish the lives of those who have made significant contributions toward a prestigious park development of Los Angeles and surrounding cities. It also relates their extraordinary contributions to the history of their time Of the more than two hundred parks in the City of Los Angeles alone, one third are the result of generous benefactions of the citizens, one third consist of lands originally acquired for some other purpose, no longer required therefore, and the remaining third have been purchased from bond funds voted the by electorate. [and] in adjacent cities Long Beach, Burbank, and Glendale.". Limited Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by Hjelte, Sue (illustrated by). 8vo. (iv), 128pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Paperback. first edition. near fine, fanzine, 16 pages.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 4 pages, 1 portrait. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 18 x 23 cms. Category: Newcastle upon Tyne Society of Antiquaries; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 1 page. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Anti-Jacobin Review; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Institution of Civil Engineers; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. The uncommon seventeenth issue of the first series of Cid Corman's important little magazine, featuring an obituary of Stevens by Corman (written two days after his death), plus writing by Levertov, Creeley, Layton, et al. Unmarked copy, light bumping to one corner. Not Signed.

8vo. xiv+464pp. Later cloth with some War Office library stamps, otherwise a very good copy. Interesting selection of obituaries including an unprecedented group of senior members of the royal family notably George III. Also Sir Joseph Banks.

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. Approx page size 19 x 11 cms. Approx image size 8 x 9 cms. : Woodcut engraving and article. The Illustrated London News burst onto the scene in 1842, revolutionizing the way people consumed news. For the first time, readers could see the world unfold before their eyes, not just through words, but through stunning engravings and illustrations. From royal coronations to scientific breakthroughs, it delivered vivid storytelling that brought global events to life in a way no publication had done before. For over 160 years, this pioneering magazine captured the imagination of its audience, covering wars, discoveries, cultural moments, and historic milestones. With its bold mix of journalism and artistry, it set the standard for illustrated news, leaving an enduring legacy that shaped the future of storytelling. This is a genuine, original piece, carefully removed from the historic volume, not a reprint or reproduction! Category: Illustrated London News; Vintage Prints; PRINTS : Historic News. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.