Fifth String, First Edition (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Howard Chandler Christie (illustrator). First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Howard Chandler Christy (illustrator). First Edition. 124pp, Gilt spine and front cover emblem. Frontispiece and glassine cover are torn and loose. Illustrations protected by glassine. No other tears. Inscribed "Merry Christmas To Clara from George 1903".Front corner bumped. Spine ends rubbed. Size: 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 125 Pp. Blue Cloth, Heavily Gilt. First Printingrubbing At Corners, Spine Gilt Strong, Cover Gilt Brilliant And Entirely Complete; No Marks Or Stains Or Fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy (illustrator). First Edition. Minor wear at corners and spine ends. Small spot on back cover. Front cover decoration is bright and clean. ; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gold gilt art nouveau decorative cover by J. Alden Peirson on green cloth. Gold top stained edge; other edges uncut. Former owner's name, Rochesterian Harper Sibley, on FFEP, erased but still visible; otherwise clean interior. Frontispiece and additional illustrations, some with clean tissue separating pages. Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. 125 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Howard C. Christy. (illustrator). First Edition. In black cloth with gilt titling and upper cover nouveau illustration, 8vo, 125pp. Illustrated by Howard C. Christy. (minor light shelfwear to extremities). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. 124 pages. Text by Sousa accompanied by illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. A clean very near fine copy in decorated green cloth boards with gilt lettering and top edge. No dust jacket. A bright copy.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Original 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album. Fine in a toned printed paper sleeve in a near fine cardboard sleeve with a sticker on the front panel and slight edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Howard Chandler Christy, J. Alden Peirson (illustrator). 1st Edition. 12vo. (20 cm.) [10]1-124[2]p. Frontispiece black and white illustration and five additional black and white plates by Howard Chandler Christy, all with tissue guards with printed captions. There is also a facsimile of the announcement of the appearance of the violinist Angelo Diotti. Green cloth ruled in gilt and with an elaborate vignette heavily stamped in gilt and red of a tree with red fruit on it and a violin in the middle of the canopy in such a way that the whole looks at first glance to be a butterfly! Beneath the violin is a small martiini glass and the base of the tree shows its twined roots, as well as the signature of the binding designer "P" [J. Alden Peirson]. Cover design is in the Arts & Crafts Style. Minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, spine gilt slightly dulled, cover gilt and colors bright, front free endpaper missing (but there are still two blanks before the frontispiece), all illustrations by Christy in fine condition, as are their tissue guards, top edge gilt slightly dulled, else very good to near fine. No jacket.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo, publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and red, gilt top edge, deckled fore edge. Composer John Philip Sousa's novella about a virtuoso violinist who makes a deal with the devil, with black and white frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Howard Chandler Christy. Very good, light shelf wear, no dust jacket.

HARDCOVER. Condition: FINE WITHOUT D.J. FIRST EDITION. 6 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL DECORATED BLACK CLOTH-COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES AND DESIGN TO THE SPINE AND UPPER COVER. OTHER THAN A TOUCH OF RUB TO THE CORNERS, SOME SCATTERED MODEST FOXING, AND A GIFT INSCRIPTION DATED JUNE 1902 ON THE BLANK PAGE FOLLOWING THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, A STRIKING AND FRESH COPY WITH BRIGHT GILT.

First edition. First edition. Frontispiece and illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. 8vo. One of three novels written by the American composer John Philip Sousa. the protagonist of The Fifth String is a young violinist who makes a deal with the Devil for a magic violin with five strings. Publisher's green decorated cloth. Light wear to spine ends Frontispiece and illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated Howard Chandler Christy. Small octavo. Spine a bit dulled and modest wear at the corners and spine ends, a near fine copy.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Christy, Howard Chandler (illustrator). First Edition. Bright gilt lettering and designs on green cloth front board and spine. First book by the noted American composer. Previous owner's name appears on front endpaper. Otherwise, overall, a very nice clean copy. Very hard to find in near fine condition. 125 pages.

Christy, Howard Chandler (illustrator). First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 125. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Green cloth, with lettering and decorative stamping in gilt and orange. Cover scuffed and little worn at corners and ends of spine, hinges mended with masking tape, one illustration loose; o/w VG. A short novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [4], 124, [4] pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the front board and spine, top edge gilt, front board with stamped decorations of red and gold. Illustrated by a frontispiece and five additional plates. A Very Good volume with a few traces of fraying to the extremities and a tiny push to the spine.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 120 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white halftones, 21 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; AVRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. . . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

5 Bl., 125 S. m. Abb. auf Tafeln. OLn. m. goldgeprgt. Titelaufdruck u. KGsch. * Seltene Erstausgabe einer Novelle des wohl berühmtesten amerikanischen Militärkapellmeisters und Marschmusik-Komponisten, ausgerechnet über das Auftreten eines Geigen-Virtuosen namens "Angelo Diotti" in den Vereinigten Staaten. - Hübscher Einband mit schöner Jugendstil-Ornamentik; etwas berieben, Kanten leicht bestoßen; innen vereinzelt etwas stockfleckig.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1. Publisher's full green cloth embossed with an elaborate gilt design on the front cover with a violin, a glass, leaves and red apples, gilt lettering on cover and spine, t.e.g., fore-edge and bottom edge deckle. With frontis and 4 b&w drawings by Howard Chandler Christy. . Head and heel of spine are lightly rubbed, bottom tip of front cover is slightly bumped, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE. . B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 125 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful Fine Copy in Black Decorative Boards.First edition. Gorgeous Copy.

first edition Textblock very good, with a bit of age spotting, foxing and an occasional light smudge; binding good plus, intact and tight but showing wear, spotting on cover, but gold imprinting quite bright; ffep has name of a former owner in ink; 125 pages; illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy; This isn't what Sousa was best known for, which makes it the more interesting; several of the illustrations depict early versions of the "Christy girl," soon to become famous in the posters of the First World War;

First Edition. THE FIFTH STRING, Bowen Merrill , 1902, first edition, a near vg copy. Interior illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. John Philip Sousa's venture into literature.