Talking Machine, First Edition (24 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff red illus. wraps, oblong format, French flaps, slipcased. 1st ptg. 120 pp., illus. in color. As issued. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Complete printing number line. Light edge wear. J12.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Copernicus/Springer-Verlag hardcover in dust jacket, 1999, 1st edition/1st printing, jacket price $27.00, clean/tight, No marks/tears or signs of use; Fine/Fine (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking. NOTE: If the seller doesn't state the edition, you are very likely to receive a paperback, a low quality book club edition or a shop-worn remainder marked reprint copy a.k.a "New" to some sellers (caveat emptor).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st printing. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. First US edition. Blue boards warped at foot. Text tight and bright. Dj edgeworn with triangular 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" chip at foot of front panel, small chips at spine ends, watermarked on inside of dj, moderate surface soil and watermarked along foot of rear panel. Displays well in new mylar.

Paperback in Slipcase. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Cover with flaps; almost as new, with only slight fading of spine of book; slipcase has price neatly blacked out on back side. 119 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. in card slipcase 120 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 19 cm. 120, 30 pages. Ex libris and the spine split about 2 cm. along the top. Call numbers and stamps to the title page. Still an interesting little book focusing on various wax cylinder and similar recording tecnnicques. Rare.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fair only tattered binding, however Very Good or better contents throughout. Victor Records 1925 Catalog. Plaut-Cadden Co. Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Company, 1925. 12mo, green perfect bound wraps with gilt imprinting at covers and the RCA Victor logo stamped in blind at the cover (see scans), unpaginated but at least 200 pages or more. Information packed. Pink section in the back, entitled 'Victor Red Seal Records - A Library of Famous Voices' is rather hearty in page count itself. A wealth of period information on records available from the company, including pricing, on hundreds of records. See all scans. Scarce antiquarian musical Americana, in delicate outer condition but strong within. Ships in stout protection, of course. L96.

Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. A large magazine measuring 10-7/8" by 15-1/2" and containing 28 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, illustrations, photographs on early twentieth-century needlecraft, as well as vintage advertisements, including splendid full-page color ad for Cream of Wheat Company (showing the Cream of Wheat Man behind a young girl eating Cream of Wheat at the breakfast table - "Raised on Cream of Wheat"); full-page color ad for The Fleisher Yarns ("Every Color in the Rainbow"); and color ad to rear cover for the Victor Talking Machine Co. offering the Victor Record Catalog ("All the music you delight to hear"). Staples age-rusted; previous owner's name to upper left corner of front cover; front and rear covers show periodic light soil, periodic short closed edge tears, corner creases, one small edge chip; periodic small chips along outer narrow fold.

Oversized Hardback. First American Printing. Very Good condition book Owner's book plate on front endpaper, in a Good to Very Good condition, price-clipped dustjacket with some browning to spine and edges of covers, short closed tear repaired with browning tape on bottom edge of back cover, dustsoiling to covers, minor chips, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight sound copy.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. DIETRICH LANGE (illustrator). First Edition. closed tear to dj, owner's gift ins.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Black and white photographs by the author throughout. Third printing of the first edition (paperback). Near fine in oversize illustrated wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Trade paperback in near fine condition. Stated 1st edition.

First edition. 4to. Light gray cloth, titles stamped in silver gilt on the front cover and spine, gray front and rear endpapers, viii, 200 pp., acknowledgments, prelude, illustrated (mostly in color), double column, bibliography, index. The bibliography is especially informative to those interested to learn more about the subject. This book provides early cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for a mass audience. This is Volume 2 in the American Popular Music Series. A chronological catalogue of 54 western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant sheet music. Each entry also describes the song's composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Duheme, Jacqueline (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st ed, 1st prt. (STATED) RARE children's book by Asturias- a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, playwright, journalist, winner of 1967 PULTIZER PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. Said to be "the father of magic realism". (Author's bio laid-in). This book is one of two children's book this adult author wrote & the only one translated into English. Translated by Beverly Koch. Book is near fine (illustrated boards) in very good+ DJ (faint soil) with original price. SCANS AVAILABLE. Ranita, a happy little frog, goes to market to buy "a talking machine" which surprises everyone! Colorful art by Jacqueline Duheme.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), 256pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original burgundy cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0764302418.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 160 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Rare 1997 hardcover first edition book and dj both like new. 256 pages. Over 50 fine color photos. "Antique talking machines are among today's hottest collectibles. . . 'Edison' and 'Victor' . 550 color photographs showing an incredible variety of external-horn as well as internal-horn talking machines." -- from the front flap. Signed by both authors.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Oversized cloth. Fine condition but for hint of shelfwear, tiny mark to ffep. The DJ in mylar is slightly sunned. ; quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st English edition. Blue coverboards in VGC. End pages lightly tanned. Binding solid. Illustrations by Dietrich Lange. Dustjacket tanned and is chipped and torn on edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Translated by Beverly Koch. Illustrated by Jacqueline Duhéme. Oblong slim quarto. Pictorial boards. Remainder spray on the bottom edge, boards with moderate wear and soil including rubbing at the spine ends, a bit of thumb soiling in the text, a near very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Asturias was the recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos, 11.25 x 8.75", gilt-lettered red cloth with picture cover label, 385pp + Bibliography, covers rubbed, extremities bumped, minor waterstain to upper forecorner of first few pp else a nice copy of this fairly SCARCE book. Affixed inside front cover is a printed letter from GE Aerospace presenting this book. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Translated by Beverly Koch. Illustrated by Jacqueline Duhéme. Oblong slim quarto. Pictorial boards with dust jacket. Crown and top corners modestly bumped else fine in lightly worn and soiled, very good or better dust jacket with corresponding gentle bumping and a tiny tear at the crown. Asturies was the recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature.