Search Results: Music/Lyrics, Song Books from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

[London]: [Wesleyan Conference Office], (ca. 19th century reprint). (Volume wanting, originally 728 pages). Full black blind-stamped morocco. 16mo. pp. 5-706. Index. Binding Copy. Internally very good, save the missing text, both hinges cracked (pencil owner William Noyes Granby). Contains all 769 Hymns and table of contents (in five parts, additional hymns and supplement). Missing to page 5 where last part of the October 20, 1779 author preface starts and a note on the supplement. Index ends with "Through every 548"..

Boston: Tremont Temple Baptist Church, N.D. (ca.1932). Illustrated by b/w ports. Tan side-stapled wraps. 12mo. pp. [ii], 155 Hymns. Good. Darkened cover, some dogears. Composers of hymns and a compilation..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1887]. Illustrated by woodcuts and vignettes in text. First US Facsimile Limited edition. Leather backed green cloth boards, gilt ruled, uncut, thick paper issue. 4to. pp. 354. Appendix. Very Good+/No jacket, as issued. Several nicks to spine leather, both hinges starting, page edges lightly toned..

New York: A. S. Barnes, 1906. First edition. Leather backed burgundy boards, all edges red. 8vo. pp. 578, 57. Very Good/Ex-Lib. Worn leather spine with library accompaniments but opens flat for playing. Coated with Marney's dressing to prevent further aging..

New York: The Century Co, 1915. First thus edition. Leather backed dark green boards, all edges orange. 8vo. pp. 439; 91. Indices. Very Good/Ex-Lib. Leather rubbed with chipped caps, library regulars but otherwise internally fine (opens flat for playing). 533 numbered hymns..

Chicago: M. M. Cole, (1929). Illustrated by color covers with period musical ads. Stated Complete edition. {piano and voice and ukelele/banjo arr.}. 3-in-1: original covers bound with publisher outside cover. 4to. pp. 92; 96; 68 (all have cover ads recto and verso). VG-. Outside cover is rubbed and worn with archival spine reinforcement and several repaired page tears for easy turning. College and university "fight songs" grouped in 3 "Sections": Eastern (50 Songs from 44 Colleges) has chip, bottom p.69-70 (Hail to Pitt, missing stanza of chorus); Central (56 Songs from 52 Colleges) has slightly rippled page tops with several straightened dogears; Southern & Western (Popular Songs from the Large Southern and Western Universities) has one page chip pp. 45 (no music loss), one old tape repair and several straightened dogears, but missing pp. 33-6 Virginia and West Virginia (not excised but a 'never bound in publisher anomoly'). Copy nicely opens flat for piano..

Camden, NJ: Radio Corp. of America First edition. Form 2K9572. PictoriaL wraps. 8vo. pp. [iv] Pink All time 101 Best Sellers, 304. VG+. Light cover wear and toning. Alphabetical listings..

Boston: Little Brown, 1891. Illustrated by author tissue plates and vignettes. First edition. Decorated white cloth, uncut. 8vo. pp. 178. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Decorative bookplate of William Walker, traces of spot foxing. Introduction by Andrew Lang..

New York: Leo. Feist, Inc, 1938. First separate edition. {Piano and voice, guitar chords}. Stapled wraps, rear color cover. 4to. pp. 76. Good. Front cover taped, complete working copy. Songs 1914-38 with short biography above each song..

Chicago: Hall & McCreary Co, 1924. Stated third revised edition. c.1919. {piano and voice}. Illustrated manila stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 128. VG+. Light cover soil, internally fine..

Mt. Morris, IL: Charlton Publishing Corp, February, 1943. Illustrated by Color cover, photo stills, period sepia tone ads. First edition. Issued monthly starting 11/42. Stapled wraps. Medium 4to. pp. 34. VG+. The expected overall but light toning and several minor cover rubs, no tears, slight bottom corner bump. Lyrics to popular hit songs from screen, stage and radio. Irene Manning cover, Cole Porter's "Something to Shout About" by Columbia Pictures, (feature article) King Sisters Go Latin, Chico Marx-Ben Bernie "Man Bites Dog", stills from "7 Sweethearts", "Private Miss Jones", "Coney Island", Casar Romero, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Gene Kelly, Peggy Moran, "Janie", "Lucky Legs"..

New York: A.S. Barnes Co, 1913. First thus edition. Burgundy cloth. 8vo. pp. xix, 329. Near Fine/Ex-Lib. Older bookplate, rear envelope/check sheet, stamps and perforations, internally fine otherwise. Companion volume to Church and Chapel editions for younger members. Twenty-two hymns written exclusively for this volume..

: E. P. Dutton, 1885. Illustrated by 15 b&w plates from Raphael, Correggio, Plockherst etc. Second thus edition. c.1884. Illustrated and decorated olive cloth in black and gilt, original brown endpapers, aeg. Square 8vo. pp. 31, [1] blank. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Traces wear to caps and corners. Charming gift inscription from granddaughter to grandmother. A beautiful tribute to the hymn penned in 1739 for Christmas Day (in Hymns and Sacred Poems) with verse verso and painting recto..

New York: The Century Co, (1887). Second edition. c.1884. Leather backed burgundy boards, A.E. red, black eps. 8vo. pp. 520. Indices. Very Good/Ex-Lib. Worn and rubbed leather spine with chipped caps Internally near fine apart from library accompaniments and a faint old dampstain line to page bottoms. Wonderful working copy as it opens flat for playing with dark musical notation. (Four copies available)..

Chicago: Hall & McCreary, (1935). Illustrated by two color cover. First edition. Stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 48. Very Good+. Trace cover stains, internally fine..

New York: W.B. Gilley, 1825. Illustrated by engraved frontis and title. First thus US edition. Full green calf decorated and stamped gilt for A.C. Warne, aeg. 24mo (14,5cm). pp. 300. Very Good+. Minor rubbing to binding, foxing starting, gift inscription ffep. Verse to 113 Irish melodies, 32 sacred songs, 46 National airs and 71 ballads..

England: Novello & Co. Ltd, 1912; 1919; 1924; 1911; 1913. Illustrated by music notation, line drawings and b/w photographs. Mixed edition. Parts 1-III Second Editions; Parts IV-V First Editions. Original blue illustrated wraps. Small 8vo. pp. 122; 68; 125; 111; 121. Very Good. Four covers very good and bright blue, some with old dampstain, Part 3 cover is a toned green/blue. All very good internally with light overall toning. Sharp was the musician and historical scholar while Macilwaine devised the dance notation system. First edition of the first four Morris books were April 1907; 1909; 1910; 1911. Second edition was 1912 with the 5th part published in 1913 for the first time. New editions of books 2 & 3 were published after WWI. This complete set contains 2nd Ed first printing of Part 1, 2nd Ed, later printings of Parts 2 & 3, 1st Ed Parts 4 & 5..

Philadelphia: The Praise Publishing Co, 1906. First thus edition. Green stapled wraps ("Manilla Bound Edition"). 8vo. pp. [234 hymns], [3] Index. About Good. Archival tape repairs to overall creased cover, hinges and first two pages, chip to topboard near heel of spine. Complete copy with overall page toning..

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1894. Illustrated by engraved frontis. First thus edition. Navy linen. 8vo-A5 (19x17 cm). pp. 369, [1] ad. Indices. Very Good/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Spine letters, period bookplate, perforation, numbers. About 500 undenominational hymns "believed to be among the best found in the English language"..

New York: Mason Brothers (Thomas B. Smith), (1854). Illustrated by music notation. First edition. Third cantata scored for TASB, paino. Green stitched wraps. Oblong 8vo (16x25cm). pp. 64. Good. Archival repair to brittle green cover for handling and several corners, rear cover missing, foxing starting. Scarce surviving copy of 29 songs. Sheffield MA born 'Civil War' composer of over 500 pieces..