Work Music, Signed (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Masters of Music: Great Artists at Work photos by James Arkatov,; text by Alan Rich, Capra Press, 1990 inscribed by the photographer BBS. Inscribed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Like New dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page.

Condition: VG+/VG- (see notes). 1st. 4to. 200pp. NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. 1/2" AND 3/4" tears to dj. In mylar. Signed by the author. Inscribed "For Irma.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; Classical; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0312026072. ISBN/EAN: 9780312026073. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 21333.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. As New. Signed and inscribed on front endpaper by Eric A. Gordon. ; Tight, clean and crisp. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. An excellent First Printing (with full number line) of the First Edition now protected in a new Mylar cover. ; 9.50 X 6.40 X 2.10 inches; 605 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thick octavo. Inscribed & signed by author on the first free endpaper. B&W photographs. Condition: slight foxing to edges of book block; else very good+ in very good+ DJ. 605 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. Unread and like new. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear.

Hardcover. xviii, 605p., signed by Gordon on the title page, very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj.

Hard Cover. First Edition (stated). SIGNED by the author on title page. Edges very lightly foxed, else Fine in lightly used Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 605pp. Illustrated with photographs. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED and inscribed by Eric Gordon on a bookplate on front end page. $29.95 price on DJflap. Also includes SIGNED handwritten letter (ALS) from author on his stationery (mentions next book). 605p. Author's first book. Signed by Author.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by editors on title page. Slightly Cracked hinge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with light shelf wear and soiling to the page edges. Stated first edition and first numberline printing. Inscribed by the author and dated June 1989 in blue ink on the inside end page but also laid in is a book publication party invite with another hand written note from the author for a June 8th Event at Marie's Crisis at Sheridan Square in New York City. Very uncommon as such. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. xviii, 605p., first edition, illus., very good condition in a slightly shelf worn dj. Inscribed & signed "To Irwin Silber and Barbara Dane -- Keep rocking the cradle! Eric Gordon, September 1991".

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo. Clothbacked boards; dustjacket; 605pp; illus. Warmly inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy in lightly edgerubbed jacket. Critical biography of the noted leftwing composer and playwright, author of "The Cradle Will Rock.". Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 9780884963141. Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Personalized inscription from Arkatov to previous owner on front endpaper. Slight wear to corners and edges; slight dustsoiling to edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. Dustjacket with slight wear to corners and edges; slight browning to flaps; $50.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket; Very Good condition. Inscribed by Authors.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition. A fine copy in dust wrapper. Signed by author on title page. No other markings or inscriptions. Signed by Author(s).

Gail H Shelton (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 170. Fine in dj. Inscribed to poet William Jay Smith and his wife Sonja by the author. Chevalier was hired by Long tp provide musical accompanyment for his political campaigns. From this vantage point, the author tells the inside story of Louisiana political history.

First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover SIGNED and inscribed on ffep by author, his biography of the noted composer; fine in near fine jacket; very gentle softening to jacket edges else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first printing by the numbers, appears unread.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed to the title page by both editors. Brand new copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jake Rowland (Jacket image) and Denise J. Applewhi (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. xix, [1], 476 pages. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations. Notes. Sources. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has some wear and soiling. Alan Stuart Blinder ( born October 14, 1945) is an American economics professor at Princeton University and is listed among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He is a leading macroeconomist, politically liberal, and a champion of Keynesian economics and policies. Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton where he has been since 1971; from 1988 to 1990, he chaired the economics department. Also in 1990, he founded Princeton's Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies. In 1975, Blinder served as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Blinder served on President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers from January 1993 to June 1994 and as the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from June 1994 to January 1996. His academic work has focused particularly on monetary policy and central banking, and on the "offshoring" of jobs. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, as well as a monthly column in The Wall Street Journal. Regarding the 2008 near-meltdown of major financial institutions, Blinder drew ten lessons for fellow economists, including "Excessive complexity is not just anti-competitive, it's dangerous." With bracing clarity, Blinder shows us how the U.S. financial system, which had grown far too complex for its own good-and too unregulated for the public good-experienced a perfect storm beginning in 2007. When America's financial structure crumbled, the damage proved to be not only deep, but wide. It took the crisis for the world to discover, to its horror, just how truly interconnected-and fragile-the global financial system is. The second part of the story explains how American and international government intervention kept us from a total meltdown. Many of the U.S. government's actions, particularly the Fed's, were previously unimaginable. And to an amazing-and certainly misunderstood-extent, they worked. The worst did not happen. Blinder offers clear-eyed answers to the questions still before us, even if some of the choices ahead are as divisive as they are unavoidable. After the Music Stopped is an essential history that we cannot afford to forget, because one thing history teaches is that it will happen here again. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: As the U.S. economy desperately tries to crawl out of its gloomy cave, many still feel the impact of the 2007 financial crisis. Here, noted analyst Blinder provides insights on why it happened, covering three critical questions: How did we get into this mess? What was done to correct problems? and have we learned anything? He opens by addressing the rise of unemployment rates and the housing market crash, with Blinder explaining what happened to big players like AIG, Merrill Lynch, and WaMu as they collapsed. He provides a clear critical analysis of the actions authorities proposed to prevent large corporations from crumbling, and offers his own opinion on how to fix the system. Later chapters explain the key weaknesses that predate the fateful summer of 2007, and what happened to the citizens, why the government took the actions it did, and why those policies were wise. As Blinder outlines the causes of the financial crisis, he acknowledges that questions still linger in the public mind: Has history taught us anything, or are we headed for a repeat of this kind of crisis?

No Binding. Condition: VG+. From the estate of William Kozlenko, playwright, screenwriter, and editor of multiple stage-play compilations and anthologies, as well as being a founding editor of One-Act Play Magazine, which published from 1937-1942. Sokoloff explains the intricacies of working for a newly formed Federal program. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The second edition of this important Fluxus anthology, inscribed by Jackson Mac Low to Peter Quartermain on inside front cover, dated 1993. Printed on multicoloured paper stock. Laid in are loose sheet with notation cards for Joseph Byrd's "Fish: a Ballet for Woodwinds", and Dieter Rot's die-cut "white page with holes"; two pages with mounted envelopes. Glossy red printed wraps are moderately worn, with a few chips at edges and two small creases at lower left rear corner. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Brand New. First Edition / First Print (number line on copyright page 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Hardback copy in black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 257pp. Signed by both authors in black ink to title page. (55/6). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Kim Gordon (editor); Sinead Gleeson (editor),This Woman's Work: Essays on Music, (Signed First Edition) will be sent boxed and via a signed for method of postage Extra postage will be needed for overseas orders if the weight exceeds one kilo book is signed without dedication unless stated otherwise. All books come with a lifetime guarantee No Coa's issued unless the book originally came with one then it will be included with the book. Signed by Author.

Condition: Fine. CHA01025? A vintage 1947 dated hand signed photo for Phil Tate British Bandleader whose career I have detailed below, who has hand signed the photo where the signature rests perfectly accompanying the portrait, and whilst perhaps a little aged with small top right corner indent to allow this is otherwise great condition and the signing is undedicated too.Born in Bramley Leeds Tate played violin from the age of eight, and was later an autodidact on clarinet and saxophone. He formed his own group, the Five Quavers, while in high school, and played in the RAF Silver Wings Dance Orchestra during World War II. The ensemble proved so cohesive that all twelve of its members decided to continue playing together after the war, under the name Phil Tate & His Orchestra, taking a residency at Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone After appearing in the 1951 film Green Grow The Rushes, they took their next residency at the Hammersmith Palais and signed to Oriole Records.Tate's orchestra played at the Hammersmith for a full decade, then moved to the Ilford Palais. Tate hosted the BBC show Non-Stop-Pop, where he interviewed The Beatles on 30 July 1963. On radio, he was best known for his 144 appearances in Music While You Work. ?In 1964, his orchestra took up at the Locarno Ballroom in Streatham; the next year they appeared on the BBC program Music Through Midnight.??Tate's most longstanding association came in 1965, when he became musical director for the Miss World Pageant. He disbanded his orchestra in 1967, and ran Mecca Agencies in addition to his duties with Miss World, where he remained until his retirement in 1992. He served as director of the Music Users' Council from 1992 to 2000, after which he retired. Tate died on 9 December 2005, at the age of 83.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers (see his entry in the Oxford DNB). 1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged and folded three times. Signed 'Basil Ashmore'. Begins: 'Dear Mr MacQueen Pope, / Im [sic] sorry to keep bothering you about this film on Kean. Last time I saw you, you said "see me in March"[.] This week you said "leave it until they start in April"[.] / You may remember that I am a director, who has recently worked with Michael Powell on his new film.' Ashmore is 'anxious to contact the producer of your Kean film in case I can assist on this. I feel that if I leave it till the start any assistant director's [sic] will be already fixed'. He is 'sorry to be such a nuisance', but is 'extremely keen [sic] on this subject, and most anxious to have a chance to write to the producer.' MP's biography of Kean appeared in the year of his death 1960, and as early as 1943 he was writing to Sir Donald Wolfit about his plans for a play about Kean. Nothing came of that project, and the same appears to be true of the present scheme. Nor is there any record of Ashmore working with the director Michael Powell.

Vintage subscription advertisement for the seminal proto-Fluxus manifesto, utilizing George Maciunas' eye-catching designs and advertising a price of $2.98. INSCRIBED and dated by editor La Monte Young in manuscript pencil: "To - / 97 XII 19 5:03:31 PM NYC / La Monte Young." La Monte Young is one of the most influential experimental composers of the modernist era, and is primarily remembered today as one of the originators of minimalist drone music. Several of Young's compositions were collected in various Fluxus editions, beginning in the early 1960s, including "Trio for Strings," from the "FLUXUS 1" anthology. Single card measuring 2.5 x 10.25 inches, glued at the ends and folded to form an open cube. Faint rubbing, else about Fine. Signed.

Foliio. 21ff. notated in pencil on rectos of onionskin 14-stave music paper with "Circle Blue Print Co., Inc., 225 West 57th Street, New York 19, N.Y." printed at lower outer right corner of each leaf. Titled at head of first page of music with "2:55 Moderato (Brisk 4)" at left and Gould's full signature and date at right; signed in full and dated again by Gould at conclusion. Instrumentation includes: 3 piccolos 2 Bb clarinets 1 bass clarinet 1 bassoon 3 trumpets (with plunger mutes) Harp Violins Viola Cello Double Bass Marimba Steel drums at different pitches Bongo drums Very slightly worn and browned. In very good condition overall. Gould, an American composer, conductor, and pianist, was a child prodigy recognized for both his compositional and improvisational talent; he composed his first work, "Just Six," at that young age. He went on to write in many different genres, including orchestral works and for Broadway, film, television, and dance, collaborating with Jerome Robbins (Interplay, 1945 and I'm Old Fashioned, 1983) and Agnes de Mille (Fall River Legend, 1947). "He was on the staff of Radio City Music Hall when it opened (1932), and came of age during the golden era of radio: beginning at the age of 21 and for the following eight years he conducted, arranged and composed for the weekly programme 'Music for Today' on WOR, New York. . Gould's career as a symphonic composer began with the première by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra of Chorale and Fugue in Jazz (1933). Spirituals, his first work to enter the orchestral repertory, was first performed by Gould himself at a New York festival in 1941; performances followed shortly afterwards by, among many others, the New York PO and the Cleveland Orchestra. During the 1940s Gould continued to compose for the concert hall and radio, but also wrote for film, stage and ballet." Ed Matthew in Grove Music Online. Signed.