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The Philistine Traveler (2 Volume Set)
First Edition
Signed by both authors. First edition. Limited edition, #158/1000. The straw covers of both volumes are a bit ragged at the edges. All ties are present. Comb-binding intact. Slipcase has 2.5 x 2.5 inch chip missing from right edge which affects the text.
Book ID: 262857More details Price: $350.00 -
La Scala, 1946-1956
First Edition
(Milan): Edizioni della Scala, 1956. 323 pages. 9.5 by 13 inches. A collection of essays about and photographs of La Scala, concluding with a list of the performances between 1946 and 1956. ISBN: B000PZW5XK.
First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy, lacking the dust jacket. With a long presentation inscription from Nobel Prize-winning physician Philip Stowalter Hench (1950, cortisone) to conductor and cellist Alfred Wallenstein."With best wishes and sincere thanks for a wonderful evening of music. To maestro Wallenstein. To one La Scala performer (La Scala Grand) from another La Scala performer Piccolo Scala. Philip S. Hench" Below Hench's signature is that of his wife, Mary K. Hench and the date, Nov. 6, 1957. Hench's connection with La Scala eludes this cataloguer, but his Nobel Prize biographical statement cites an interest in music. An interesting association. [JSP01]
Book ID: 49103More details Price: $300.00 -
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No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
First Edition
New York: Outerbridge & Lazard, 1972. 184 pages. One of the first biographies of Zappa; illustrated with photographs. With a discography. ISBN: 9780876900765.
First edition (first printing of the paperback that was issued simultaneously with a hardcover edition). Very good in wrappers (paperback). This copy is inscribed on the inside front cover, "To Grace, thanks for everything, David." Grace is Grace Slick, a member of Jefferson Airplane and one of the key figures of the psychedelic Sixties. This copy comes from Slick's one-time partner Paul Kantner's estate. This book is accompanied by another, otherwise non-descript book inscribed to Grace Slick, offered as evidence of provenance. [JSP01]
Book ID: 151173More details Price: $250.00 -
Songs of Cabin and Field
First Edition
Cleveland, Ohio: Mrs. Evelyn McCue Wright, 1903. 31 pages. The lyricist is identified on the title page as "Paul Lawrence Dunbar" but with each song as "Paul Laurence Dunbar." Songs include The Deserted Plantation, Hunting Song, Little Brown Baby, Chris'mas is a-Comin', Tu'ky Song, Time to Tinker 'Roun', Lullaby, and A Banjo Song. ISBN: 281AIB1032170.
First edition (first printing). Good in wrappers (paperback), sewn with green string. Covers are separated. Front cover with edge chips not affecting the title or border. Rear cover is in two pieces (split vertically in middle) with edge chips. Contents are very good+. [JSP01]
Book ID: 144947More details Price: $150.00 -
All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961-1971
First Edition
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. 316 pages. This is the first American edition revised for the American audience from the 1970 Faber and Faber edition. The book contains a collection of Larkin's writings on jazz between 1961 and 1968. ISBN: 9780374103408.
First American edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 131774More details Price: $125.00 -
Rock Hudson / Rod McKuen First Recordings: London - March 1970
(Hollywood): Cheval Books. Unpaginated. Black-and-white photos of the two stars in the recording studio for the 1970 album Rock Gently, on which Hudson sang songs written for him by McKuen. Limited edition of 2000 copies. ISBN: B001KV62X2.
Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Rock Hudson on the front free endpaper. Signature bled onto title and half-title pages as well as the front flap of the dust jacket. McKuen's sneaker bookplate laid in.
Book ID: 123172More details Price: $100.00 -
Lionel Richie Document Signed (DS)
A contract between Richie and engineer Calvin Harris signed in 1983. While neither songs nor an album is specified in the contract, it most likely refers to tracks that ended up on Richie's hit Can't Slow Down), which credits Harris for background vocals, engineer, chant, and mixing. 7 pages. Signed twice by Harris and once by Richie, as Lionel Richie, Jr. ISBN: 281AIB1024148.
Fine.
Book ID: 106956More details Price: $95.00 -
Jefferson Airplane / Grateful Dead (BG-17-RP-3)
[San Francisco]: Bill Graham, [1966]. 14 by 20 inches. Third printing with upsidedown #17 in right margin. Blue on back (verso). ISBN: 281AIB0138870.
Light creases to top corners, else fine.
Book ID: 63672More details Price: $95.00 -
Song Sheets
Wesley Webster and others, 1887. 34 pieces of sheet music: 30 published by Wesley Webster, San Francisco; 10 published by Arthur H. Stockwell, Inc., London; and 4 published by other companies. Pendleton (1887?- ?), born of a pioneer family, was a California poet and composer who lived and taught in Red Bluff, California. This prolific musician knew well most of the regional poets of his time. He set to music the verses of Margaret Bruner, Thomas Merton, and numerous other writers. ISBN: 281AIB0027777.
All music sheets are very good or better with little evidence of wear.
Book ID: 16942More details Price: $93.75 -
Notes from Mendelssohn
First Edition
Boston: L. Prang, 1889. 9 leaves, printed on rectos only. Cover, front and rear, title page and eight illustrated plates in chromolithography. Each page has a poem, a bar of music, and an illustration by Louis K. Harlow. ISBN: 281AIB1040438.
First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated paper-covered boards.
Book ID: 204754More details Price: $85.00 -
L'Art de chanter une chanson
First Edition
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1928. 154 pages; photographic frontispiece. The French caberet singer and model for Toulouse-Lautrec writes on "the art of singing a song." Uncommon. ISBN: B000GT61SA.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Light wear to corners; pages tanned as usual. Pages mostly unopened.
Book ID: 116581More details Price: $62.50 -
Award Program, Signed
The Letelier-Moffit Memorial Human Rights Award Ceremony. Monday, September 22, 1986. Ten Years of Celebrating Courage. Pete Seegar was one the the award recipients. ISBN: 281AIB0132414.
Folded in half (probably to put in a pocket), else fine. Inscribed on the front cover, "Best wishes! Pete Seeger."
Book ID: 92921More details Price: $62.50 -
Form und Melodiebildung der karnatischen Musik Sudindiens im Umkreis der vorderorientalischen und der nordindischen Kunstmusik. Band I: Darstellungen; Band II: Transkriptionen
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1970. Two volumes. 254, ca. 53 folding plates of music transcription. Text in German. [Form and melodic structure of Carnatic music of South India within the Near East and North Indian classical music]. ISBN: 281AIB1022833.
Volume one paperback; volume two hardcover. Ex-library copies with stamps and bookplates. Clean inside; generally very good.
Book ID: 102200More details Price: $62.50 -
Rosemary: Four Choruses for Women's Voices (Three- and Four-part, Unaccompanied)
First Edition
Boston: E. C. Schirmer Music Co, 1930. 32 pages. Lyrics from 'Tiger Joy' by Stephen Vincent Benet. ISBN: B004VJIKC6.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers (paperback, stapled).
Book ID: 152434More details Price: $50.00 -
Mumbo Jumbo, Inspiration Carlos Santana for River of Colors (poster)
N. Pl: Heaven Smiles Art, 1998. Poster, 23 x 17 inches. Michael V. Rios (b. 1947) is an Oakland native who began working and collaborating with Santana in 1986. He has created murals in San Francisco's Mission District. ISBN: 281AIB1050067.
Very good colorful poster inscribed by artist: "To Miriam & Daniel Michael V. Rios 2000." Inscription is to Daniel del Solar. Spotting on poster margins. Poster previously rolled.
Book ID: 266261More details Price: $50.00 -
New Images of Musical Sound
First Edition
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. 177 pages. A book of music theory that "investigates the many mysteries of musical sound by using sound spectrum photographs, a method based on newly developed technology" -- from the front flap. Illustrated in black-and-white. ISBN: 9780674615854.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with wear to the corners and scratches to the rear panel.
Book ID: 232956More details Price: $50.00 -
THE ROAD TO GRACELAND. 1993. DAVID SYLVIAN AND ROBERT FRIPP (TOUR PROGRAM)
(London): Opium (Arts) Limited. Brochure from 1993 tour. ISBN: B005UH9GOE.
Near Fine
Book ID: 56222More details Price: $40.00 -
Modal Counterpoint in the Liberal Arts Curriculum
First Edition
N. Pl: College Music Association, 1950. pp. 25-42,in Papers and Discussion of the Third Annual Meeting of the College Music Association Cleveland, Ohio, 1950. ISBN: 281AIB1048141.
Inscribed by the author on the title page of the pamphlet. Very good in wrappers (paperback), stapled. Pamphlet offered complete.
Book ID: 263103More details Price: $40.00 -
Country Joe And Me
First Edition
Bloomington: AuthorHouse. 1st Books, 2004. 208 pages. Cabral played briefly with Country Joe and the Fish and managed a few rock bands and promoted concerts in the SF Bay Area. ISBN: 9781410765376.
Inscribed by the author to Paul Kantner on the title page: "To Paul, Best Regards, Ron Cabral, 3/18/06, Cache Creek, CA." Also signed by Jor McDonald, "Joe" with drawing of peace sign below his name on title page. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Nice association copy.
Book ID: 265687More details Price: $40.00 -
Richard Lippold
First Edition
New York: 1973. One sheet folded to create 6 sides. Advertises an exhibit at Willard Gallery April 17-May 12, 1973 of Lippold's drawings for sculptures. Cage wrote the poem "Grand Street and Monroe (for R. L. twenty years later)" which is printed on the brochure. ISBN: 281AIB1048361.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Book ID: 263404More details Price: $40.00
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