Webber John Editor (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. bbc 02 8½"x11"; 98 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 "Sergei Rachmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op.27" (Studio Recording) performed by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Edward Downes. The magazine contains the following articles: "A great flame is burning" (a short discussion on the reception to Rachmaninov's symphonies) by David Nice; "Counterpoint: Last of the Mohicans" (Profile of Record company Harmonia Mundi) by Nick Kimberley; "from an ivory tower: What are we to make of this ranting maniac?" (Richard Strauss' Opera Elektra) by John Milsom; "tuning up: Singing: ticket to a musical life" (Voices Foundation; singing as an introduction for children to music) by Roderic Dunnett; "music in art" (series on music in works of art; "L'orchestre de l'Opera" by Edgar Degas; "Jane Avril: Jardin de Paris" by Henri de Toulouse) by Tom Phillips; "Can't Help Singing" (Sylvia McNair) by Richard Fairman; "Composer of the Month" (Giachino Rossini) by Richard Osborne; "Hands-on Experience" (Pianist Richard Goode interview) by David Blum; "Make Way for the Baritones" (a review of some of the upcoming baritones) by Barrymore Laurence Scherer; "Building a Library: Mozart, Quintet for Piano and Wind, K452" by Colin Lawson; "Brian Kay's Starter Collection" (essential performances from the classical repertoire) by Brian Kay; "The Hot Spot Moves On" (European jazz musicians) by Chris Parker; "Quodibet: What is pitch (perfect or not)? by Fritz Spiegel; "Music that changed me" by Julian Lloyd Webber.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 56 pages. Illistrated. Cecil Parrott Music in the Soviet Union" / Ernest Bradbury "Pen Portrait: Francis Jackson" / Thomas B Pitfield "Music and Silence" / John Emery "Broadcast Music" / Music in London - 'Samson' at Covent Garden" / Dr illiam Cole "Counsel From The Console" Includes 6 pages of sheet music for "Most glorious Lord of Lyfe!" words by Edmund Spenser, music by Lloyd Webber. (M13).…

Presumed first edition (no direct statement upon copyright page). x, 187 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket well soiled, nicks and several short tears along edges, small hole at top right of front panel. Purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. Pages are clean and binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket. With Foreword, section of b/w illustrations on unpaged leaves, and Appendix. Features the following essays: THE MODERN RELEVANCE OF THE RENAISSANCE by Louis B. Wright; THE COUNCIL OF TRENT AND TUDOR ENGLAND by John L. Lievsay; THE DISCOVERY OF SPACE by Marjorie Nicolson; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BOOK IN MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY COATS OF ARMS by Astrik L. Gabriel; LEAR, THE KING: A PREFACE TO A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDY by Ernest William Talbert; HUMANISM, CONSCIENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE by Isidore Silver; THOMAS MORE: HUMANIST IN ACTION by Richard Sylvester; CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND REFORM IN THE ERASMIAN CRITIQUE OF TRADITION by Ray C. Petry; PUBLICATION AND SCHOLARSHIP by Howard R. Webber.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 310 pages. 5.50x0.75x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. Handsome hardcover in green cloth covered boards with the Kingsclere red/black jockey racing silks on cover. Spine ends bumped, tips rubbed, no names or tears in the 369pp text. Photographic illustrations throughout. Hinge papers fine, some foxing on title page and photo frontis, light finger soil in margins and edge of page block. A substantial addition to the history of the British turf.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles on front board and spine. The cover is lightly soiled, rubbed on all extremities and the spine is sunned. Markings on ffep. The rest of the book is unmarked. The binding is tight but pulling away from the spine. The pages are clean and clear.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles on front board and spine. It is soiled and rubbed on all extremities. The titles are faded, the spine is sunned. Markings The rest of the book is unmarked. The binding is tight. The pages are clean and clear. Knight, J. C. B. (illustrator). …

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1913. First Edition. Vol IX, No. 1, for January, 1913. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", 83 numbered pp. + unpaginated photographic plates and ads. Modest touching at edges, faint occasional soil at covers. See scans. Binding sturdy, contents fine. Overall, better than Very Good. See scan of contents page for the lineup of stellar club writers and their always engaging and adventurous topics, which here include the Tuolumne Meadows, Kern Canyon, California Pine Grosbeak, Yosemite Valley, etc. Several maps, several drawings, and of course tons of photographic plates, in this issue executed by Walter L. Huber, Everett Shepardson, Francis P. Farquhar, W.C. Alvarez, Charles W. Michaels, Philip Carlton, M.R. Parsons, Elsie Zeile, Edna Osborn, A.W. Wilding, H.E. Bailey, Harry D. Webber, Heinemann, Herbert W. Gleason, and A.A. Forbes. Standard departments as well, of course. SC2. Walter L. Huber, Everett Shepardson, Francis P. Farquhar, W.C. Alvarez, Charles W. Michaels, Philip Carlton, M.R. Parsons, Elsie Zeile, Edna Osborn, A.W. Wilding, H.E. Bailey, Harry D. Webber, Heinemann, Herbert W. Gleason, A.A. Forbes (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 260 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 274 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1938. First Edition. April, 1938 [Vol XXIII, No. 2]. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/2" x 6 1/4". Photographs. Near Fine - and in this case, the near fine is just about as near to fine as it can get. No salient flaws. Very, very high grade example. Binding is, of course, sturdy. 124 numbered pp. + 41 B&W Plates, most of them photographs but some sketches & maps, three 16th-17th century engravings, + ads. Eight photographs are by the great Ansel Adams. Other serious contributors from the army of photographic and illustrative talent in this issue were: John Muir, David R. Brower, Marion R. Parsons, Norman Clyde, Ervin P. McEvoy, Leland Curtis, W.B. Wheeler, Francis P. Farquhar, Walter A. Starr, Arthur H. Blake, Howard S. Gates, Charles S. Webber, Albert J. Adams, Howard Koster, and George Shochat. Articles (see scan of contents page) by Merrill Moores, Francois E. Matthes, William E.Colby, Walter A. Starr, Carl P. Jensen, Norman Clyde, David R. Brower, W. Kenneth Davis, Elmo A. Robinson, Vernon Bailey, Joseph Grinnell and Arthur H. Blake. And as always a variety of regular and special departments. Please review all scans. l-sc2. Ansel Adams, John Muir, David R. Brower, Marion R. Parsons, Norman Clyde, Ervin P. McEvoy, Leland Curtis, W.B. Wheeler, Francis P. Farquhar, Walter Starr, Arthur Blake, Howard Gates, Charles Webber,Albert J. Adams,Howard Koster,George Shochat (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 150 pages. 8.26x5.82x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography from English Thoroughbred flat racing trainer John Porter. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eighteen plates, and twelve in-text images. Collated complete. The biography of John Porter, an English Thoroughbred flat racing trainer whose horses won the English Triple Crown three times. He has been described by the National Horseracing Museum as "undoubtedly the most successful trainer of the Victorian era." Edited by Byron Webber, a British sportswriter. In the original full cloth binding with gilt. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink inscription and previous owner's bookplate to the front endpapers. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…