Search Results: Titles starting with A from Schubertiade

London: Printed for the Benefit of the musical Fund; and sold by T. Payne and Son, 1785. First Edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Upright quarto.  Modern vellum imitation boards with brown morocco label to spine and gilt frame and lettering.  Confusing pagination: pp. vii, [1], xvi, 8, *8, 9-20, *19-*24, 21-56, 21, [6], 26-41, [6], 46-90, [5], 94-139, [3], with the frontispiece and seven other engraved plates, two of them offering stunning views of Westminster Abbey during these vast concerts, and one being a full plan of the orchestra.  11.25 x 8.5 inches (28.3 x 21.8 cm).  Scattered foxing; boards and spine somewhat worn; some pages stained to lower edge, five of which small losses in the stained area, but otherwise a good copy.  Rothschild 544; Hazen, pp. 30-33; Chapman and Hazen, p. 161; Fleeman, p. 1570 (85.2BH/1a).The great Handel Commemoration of 1784, marking the supposed centenary of the composer's birth, was an event without precedent in musical history.  There were five… Read More

Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1687. First. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Achille et Polixène, Tragédie Dont le Prologue & les quatre derniers Actes ont esté mis en Musique par P. Collasse...Et le premier Acte par feu Mre J. B. de Lully.'  Upright folio.   Approx. 10 x 15 inches (25 x 38 cm.).[2]; i-xxxviii; 1–316 pp.  Mottled calf binding.  This copy from the collection of Arnold Dolmetsch, Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark ("II D 39") to verso of title.  Bookseller's printed notice to upper cover.  Correction slip to p. 271, early ownership inscription to front pastedown reading "ce livre apartient a Mademoiselle de Marin."  Occasional modern pencil annotations.  Splitting at joints, scuffing to covers, some damp-staining.  Overall in fine condition.   RISM L 2930. Arnold Dolmetsch was an important force in the 20th-century revival of interest in early music.  His scholarship and performances with his family helped to resurrect forgotten instruments such as the viola… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Doubleweight sepia photograph of the legendary ballerina in her signature "Dragonfly" ballet, the photograph issued by the Advance Theatrical Shoe Co., signed and inscribed within the image (printed). A few small stains, else fine. 8 x 10 inch (20 x 25 cm).Anna Pavlova is believed to be the first to use supportive slippers for toe dancing, but in no way did she officially endorse this shoe company which appears to have traded on her image for publicity purposes without her authorization. Leo Harris is identified as a designer for Advance Theatrical Shoe Co., Chicago in a Dance Lovers ad, Oct. 1925 and apparently his idea was to make 2 pointe shoe styles: one with a low arch and one with a high arch. By 1928, Leo was advertising his "hollow arch" point shoe and the company continued to produce quality shoes into the late 1990s. It is no longer known for pointe shoes but rather for a line of dance wear produced under that label.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A rare signed photograph of the influential American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist who played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. An exceptional original photograph by Gerda Peterich, Primus is shown in "African Ceremonial," her first choreographed work of dance and the work in which she made her professional debut in NY in 1943. Inscribed "To Paul /with Best Wishes / Sincerely / Pearl E. Primus" in black ink to the lower left corner. Photographer's stamps to verso.  In very fine condition. 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm.).Born in Munich and trained in Berlin, the photographer Gerda Peterich sailed for America in August, 1939 on the next to last ship to leave Germany before World War II.  She established a photographic studio at 332 West 50th Street in New York, where she specialized in portraiture and dance and also taught for two and a half years at The School of Modern Photography. Beginning in the early… Read More

New York: Gertrude Hoffmann Company, 1911. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Rare souvenir program for the 1911 American tour which was the first performance of the Ballets Russes repertory in America. Billed as "Miss Gertrude Hoffmann Announces Les Ballets Russes," the program features a lushly printed cover illustration, writings about various dances and dancers accompanied by halftone photographs and drawings. 24 pp. Original cord binding. Wear to outer edges of original wrappers, overall in fine condition. 9.75 x 12.5 inches (24.8 x 31.8 cm.).The program features excerpts of three ballets by Mikhail Fokine, staged by Theodore Kosloff without permission: Cléopâtre, Shéhéradeze, Les Sylphides with dancers Lydia Lopoukowa, Maria Baldina, Alexander Volinine, Theordore Kosloff, Ivan Tarasow etc. and with photos of Lopoukowa, Baldina, Kosloff, Volinine and others. Morris Gest and F. Ray Comstock, managing directors Gertrude Hoffman (Hoffmann) developed these first Ballets Russes seen in America.… Read More

Paris: Collection Pierre Corrard, 1914. First. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Folio (321 x 270mm.), unnumbered copy from the limited edition of 512 copies of this poetic tribute to the great Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, where she was Nijinsky's chief partner.  Illustrated by George Barbier with 12 full-page pochoir colored plates in his characteristic Art Deco style. Text in French. Luxuriously bound in full pebbled black and brown leather, contained in a protective glassine cover and white card slipcase.  Light foxing and staining throughout, overall a very good copy."Tamara Karsavina became a legend in her own lifetime. Her technical perfection, wit, rare intelligence, and deep feeling made her a prima ballerina for all times" (Andros). Famed choreographer George Balanchine remembers being captivated by her when he was a student at the Imperial Ballet School in… Read More

Gotha: Chez Justus Perthes, 1837. First Edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Inscribed "To the Queen/from her grateful + affect[tionate] Adel[k?]chen / July 6. 1837." Publisher's red cloth gilt with the armorial crest of Ferdinand I of Austria. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches (11 x 7.5 cm); vi, [48], 290, 92, [2] pp., with engraved portraits, pages edged in gilt. Light wear, overall fine.This is a remarkable copy of the chief European Royal Genealogical Reference, inscribed to the newly ascended Queen herself, listed as Princess on page 23, who had turned 18 on 24 May 1837 and who, on 20 June 1837, when William IV died at the age of 71, became Queen of the United Kingdom and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death. At 63 years and 7 months, her reign as the Queen lasted longer than that of any other British monarch, and is the longest of any female monarch in history. Her reign is known as the Victorian era, and was a period of industrial, cultural, political,… Read More

Paris: Bertauts, [1862]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Lithograph caricature by the French journalist/photographer/caricaturist depicting Alphonse Sax, brother of Adolphe (Belgian inventor of the Saxophone), who had himself patented the saxaphomnitonique system of brass instruments and was an important instrument manufacturer. Depicted in costume as a young Sylphide, the image is from around the beginning of Sax's efforts to demonstrate not only that women were capable of playing brass instruments, but that it was in their interests — on moral, health and potentially even career grounds — to do so.  The caption beneath the illustration reads, translated from the French, "Alphonse Sax (Junior) metamorphoses into Sylphide to better convert the fairer sex to the holy principles of morality and brass instruments!"  Light staining and foxing around the edges, overall in fine condition.  11.5 x 16.5 inches (29 x 42 cm.).

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. First. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Folio. 153 pages. Publisher's cloth. Inscribed and signed by the artist "To De de Dede / with love," in red ink, on the half-title, additionally dated. Small hole in backstrip; dust jacket with small hole in spine panel, minor closed tears at edges, faint scattered soiling, else fine. A collection of paintings by the popular sports artist featuring his impressions of the French capital, depicting an array of monuments, museums, nightlife, parks, and grand boulevards etc. A GI cook with the American First Army, Neiman took part in the liberation of Paris and returned many times, pen and paper in hand, to record the city's enduring charm. In fact, some of the most vibrant and pleasing reproductions in this lavish volume are pages from a sketchbook he worked in at "his" table at Fouquet's in 1991 and 1992. 

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed title page of The American Theatre: As Seen by Hirschfeld (New York: George Braziller, 1961). Inscribed, "For Paul / HIRSCHFELD," with the addition of two extra arms and pointing hands drawn by the artist. Single sheet, cut from the book. 11 x 8.5 inches (28 x 21.5 cm). In fine condition.Hirschfeld was a celebrated caricaturist. His cartoons appeared in a variety of venues including the New York Times.From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon's stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy's Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Twelve volumes from the directory of Thoroughbred horses in North America. New York, various years, various paginations. Founded and published by Sanders Bruce, the American Stud Book has been published by The Jockey Club in New York since 1896.Volume II 1873 637 pp. Volume IV 1884 598 pp. Volume IX 1906 1242 pp.Volume XV 1932 1058 pp.Volume XXII 1964 2166 pp.Volume XVIII 1944 1370 pp.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Rare handbill for the American Negro Blues Festival at Fairfield Hall in Croyden, featuring Lightning Hopkins, Howling Wolf, Sleepy John Estes, Hubert Sumlin, John Henry Barbee, Hammie Nixon, Sugar Pie Desanto, Clifton James, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon, and Sunny Boy Williamson. Mild wear and toning throughout, usual folds, else fine.  5.75 x 7.75 inches (14.5 x 17.8 cm.).The 1963 appearance of the American Folk Blues Festival (American Negro Blues Festival as it was called at the time) introduced the Blues as a rapidly growing popular genre in the UK. The festival – which began in 1962 and toured annually for years following – provided the initial exposure of leading Blues artists to European audiences, most of whom had never toured outside of the United States. The festival attracted a tremendous amount of media coverage, and "directly influenced a generation of young British musicians, with new bands such as The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds with an… Read More

London: Studio Vista Ltd., 1971. First paperback edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Small 8vo. 160 pp. Signed "Andy Warhol" in bold black ink to the titlepage. A few thin scratches and creases to wrapper laminate, otherwise about fine.In 1961 a fashionable commercial artist named Andy Warhol created an artistic furor in New York with his deadpan versions of the Campbell's Soup can. Since then he has become the most talked about but least understood artist of the late 20th century. Warhol made acceptable the use of industrial techniques in the creation of paintings obsessed with modern clichés--car crashes, Coke bottles, sex symbols such as Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor. At the same time, his films-- Blowjob, Sleep, Chelsea Girls, Lonesome Cowboys --forced us to look at the object/subject, transformed the bizarre into the banal, and remade the form and content of cinematic experiment and production.Originally published in 1971, Peter Gidal's Andy Warhol was the first book written on Warhol's… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Silver gelatin print, image size, 440 x 290mm, with photographers copyright & studio stamp verso, number 1/10, signed and dated in pencil, framed to an overall size of 24.8 x 19.5 inches (63 x 49.5 cm.).

New York: Random House (The Whitney Museum), 1979. First Edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A very special example of the 1979 stated First Edition softcover, signed and inscribed in bold black ink to the half title "To Paul from Andy Warhol," and including an original polaroid photograph by Warhol of the recipient, photographer Paul McMahon, signed in black ink by Warhol to the lower margin and also sold together also with an original small format black and white photograph of Warhol by Paul McMahon, taken at a 1980 book signing appearance by the artist and signed "Photo by Paul McMahon" to verso.  The book, Square 8vo.  141 pp. Slight handling stains to edges, glue stain to inner front gutter, else fine. The photographs, each approx. 4¼ x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 8.6 cm) and both in fine condition. The book's autograph dedicatee and subject of the included original Warhol photograph is Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original doubleweight black-and-white richly printed silver gelatin photograph, ca. 1946, inscribed in blue ink "To Paul / Best Wishes" and signed "Ethel Merman" to, respectively, the rear of the famed white motorbike and Merman's fishnet-stockinged right leg.  8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Ink stamped on the verso "Photograph by Vandamm Studio, 130 West 57th St., New York, N.Y." and "Salute" and inscribed in pencil by the studio "Ethel Merman starring as Annie Oakley in 'Annie Get Your Gun' Imperial Theatre."A few blocks of nearly imperceptible toning or silvering, light show through from pencil writing along bottom edges, edges lightly dinged, overall fine. Ethel Merman created her legendary role of Annie Oakley, the celebrated sharp shooter and star of Buffalo Bill's traveling show, in the Irving Berlin Broadway musical which includes some of his most famous songs. The show played for 1147 performances at the Imperial Theatre between May 16, 1946 and Feb. 12,… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A rare document in the history of classical music: the surviving 1811 program of the Napoleon Festival in Erfurt, formerly owned and treasured by Johannes Brahms, and presented by the composer to his friend Edward Speyer on October 3, 1895. The program bears Brahms' inscription and signature in ink along the full height of the left margin: "Herrn Edward Speyer zur frdl. Erinnerung an Meiningen 1895 (auch ein Musik- und ein Napoleon-fest! | Johannes Brahms." (To Mr. Edward Speyer, in friendly remembrance of Meiningen 1895—itself a music and Napoleon festival! Johannes Brahms.) The program gives the full concert program on page one, followed by three pages providing the details of the performers, including directors, instrumental soloists and orchestra players, soloist singers and chorus members. Paper, watermark "B", 4 pages, single bifolium, 8.75 x 14.25 inches (22.5 x 36.5 cm) folded. Foxed and stains, creasing with small tears at edges, but autograph very bright and… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 inches (21.5 x 14.4 cm). Unbound. 2 bifolia. [i] (program of "Arnold Schönberg-Abend"), [i] (catalogue: "Arnold Schönberg's Lieder in der Universal-Edition), [iii]-[v] (song texts), [vi] (announcement of "Statuarisches Konzert" on April 7, to be conducted by Franz Schreker), [vii] advertisement of Universal-Edition for Ferdinand R, Löns-Lieder), [viii] (calendar of Konzertbüro der Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft). Several manuscript annotations in pencil to song texts, in an unknown hand. Browned.The program includes performances of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, op. 9, and songs from opp. 3 and 6. Performers include pianists Ernst Bachrich (1892-1942; Holocaust victim) and Eduard Steuermann (1892-1964), violinist Josef Geringer (1892-1979), horn player (later bandleader) Silvester Schieder (1884-1955), and singers Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann (1881-1941) and Arthur Fleischer (1889-1948).The first page dates the "Arnold Schönberg-Abend" to Tuesday,… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original promotional photograph of the American actors in the 1950 John Huston heist film The Asphalt Jungle.  The film stars Calhern as Alonzo Emmerich, a lawyer who launders jewels for a thief, and features Monroe in one of her earliest film roles, as his mistress.  In fine condition.  8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm.).From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon's stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy's Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Charming autograph letter from the important nineteenth-century singer to a female friend and pianist, organizing an evening of chamber music and reporting an amusing mistake made by her maid. Dated Thursday, March 29. Translated from the French: "Dear young friend, Will you be so kind as to bring the (simple) quartet version of the Bach Concerto? I cannot find my orchestra parts any more. Don't be late -- I have had a nice Pleyel brought for you. We will play in the Galerie -- it will be charming. [...] We'll begin with the beautiful Schumann string quartet. Can you imagine, my new maid, who brought your answer yesterday evening, said [...] that you would come this evening, but that you were too tired to play... Pantomime!!!! Isn't that lovely?" 3 pp. on a small bifolium with Viardot's monogram. In fine condition. 6 x 4 inches (15.4 x 10 cm).Pauline Viardot, one of the most important singers of the 19th century, was the dedicatee of Brahms' Alto Rhapdody and… Read More