Three Centuries Harpsichord Making by Frank Hubbard (50 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. The item is in good condition and works perfectly, however it is showing some signs of previous ownership which could include: small tears, scuffing, notes, highlighting, gift inscriptions, and library markings.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gently read hardcover, with clean text, solid binding. Small tears to the jacket edges; former owner's name on the title page. Ready to ship.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. GOOD/GOOD. Purple illustrated dust jacket with a green spine. Approx. 10" x 7". Bumps/chips to edges and corners. Rub wear, dust markings and light scratches to covers. Top edge of covers is crumpled with multiple creases and closed tears. Brown spotted stains to spine. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. A beautiful copy of book; dust jacket has light normal wear including spine sunning. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Full dark red cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. xviii, 369 pp. + xli full-page illustrative plates. Binding slightly worn and spotted; dustjacket worn. From the collection of noted American harpsichordist Igor Kipnis (1930-2002), with his signature and small handstamp to front free endpaper and handstamp to blank preliminary leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 369 pp + xli plates. Upper edge foxed.

Hard cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket is sunned and has a half-inch cosmetic tear at top edge. Contained in protective plastic jacket. Cover is foxed. Bottom edge of spine is lightly bumped, but binding is tight. Top outer edge of pages is foxed (not visible inside). Previous owner's name inked on front end leaf; inside is otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Second printing, [xvii], 373p., illustrated with numerous tables and a generous appendix of b&w plates (XLI, or forty-one full-pagers, most from period sources), hardbound in 10x6.5 inch openweave brown cloth boards lettered gilt, and enclosed in the smart pinkish dust jacket. Book itself is unflawed, dj is unclipped but its spine panel is sunned from pink to moss-green and has a small scuff. A great copy: otherwise perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Per the author's preface, "In this second printing a few corrections have been made and Appendix I has been added".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Second printing. Dust jacket unclipped. Contains 41 back and white plates. Bound in cloth with title and design on front cover, title on spine. Extensive fading to dust jacket. Wear to top edges of dust jacket including some tearing. Slight wear to dust jacket at tail of spine. 8vo, 373pgs.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Shelf cocked. Shelf worn. Toned on cover. Foxed on page edges. (music, history, harpsicord).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth. 4to. Fourth printing. 373 pp., followed by 41 black & white plates. Very good +, in like dustjacket with sun faded spine. Boards lightly rubbed. Appendices. Bibliography. Glossary.

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hbk, royal 8vo, 363pp with a section of 41 plates at the rear, dj slightly sunned at the spine with a small stain lower front, otherwise fine, unclipped and now in protective sleeve, internally a fine, clean., tight and unmarked text, as new.

Hardcover. First. Crimson cloth; mauve dj with outline of harpsichord and black lettering. Protective clear cover taped on. 369 pp. and 41 bw plates. The history of harpsichord building from 1500 to 1800, by one of the world's expert makers. Historical survey, reinforced with technical data and single chapters devoted to each of the five most important schools of harpshicord making (Italy, Flanders, France, England, Germany). Includes all sorts of appendices and wonderful interior and exterior illustrations and diagrams. VG, clean and tight but with ex-lib. marks/pocket to end papers and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Tight and unmarked in shop worn jacket top edge is shelf soiled. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar. Some age tanning. PO name inside in pencil. Clean text, tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Catalog for author's harpsicord kit included. Harvard University Press, 1965; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated; xviii, [2], 369, [41 black & white plates]. Six page saddle-stapled catalog laid-in at front. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of maroon cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good. Clipped dust jacket is toned around edges and over spine, light shelfwear at edges; small black smudges on front panel; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In-4, 28 cm, 306pp., illustr., 41 planches, Bibliogr. p. 287-293., Index., quelques marques d'usage sur la couverture, Nb-0360,

Full cloth. Condition: Slightly used. Hubbard, Frank: Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making Ð Cambridge, 1976, Harvard Univ. Press. IÐXVI, [2], 373, [85] p. 246 mm Ð Original dust jacket slightly damaged, faded.

HUBBARD, Frank. THREE CENTURIES OF HARPSICHORD MAKING. Illustrated with 41 plates. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1965. Small quarto, red cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. The traditions of harpsichord making as they have been transmitted to young apprentices in any one of several countries over the centuries. Signed by Hubbard on the title page & dated "June 11, 1967." An interesting copy with a calligraphic presentation on a front blank page to Alice E. Fulton, "Our First Lady." The presentation is from the Parent-Teacher Association of the Fulton School, located in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Fulton was a teacher and principal at the school from 1921 to 1965 (when this book was presented) and she was a multi-talented musician. The school was named in her honor. An uncommon book but particularly scarce when signed by the author. Very Good (little rubbing spine); worn (several large tears & large chip, few stains front panel) d/j. $150.00.