Bobby Short: The Life and Times of a Saloon Singer by Short, Bobby;MacKintosh, Robert G - 1995

As new hardcover, missing CD. 1st edition, rare 3000 copies. excellent profusely and beautifully illustrated book onthe history of Greek musical folk instruments, from the Fivos Anoyanakis Collection. A wonderful book.

This book is in good condition. There is wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and the edges are worn as well. The corners are bumped as well. The previous owners names are affixed and written on the inside of the front and back cover boards.There is staining on the front, back and spine of the cover boards. The pages are yellowed and tanned, but free of markings. "For each worshiping generation "the people called Methodists" have provided a revised edition of the HYMNAL. In every revision, however urgent the need for different devotional expression, the constraining motive has accorded with the counsel of the apostle:"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord...." - Preface from The Methodist Hymnal

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

Used. Rogers, Fred. Mister Rogers' Songbook 1970 Random House First Edition w. Dust Jacket. Very Good-/Very Good. Illustrated by Steven Kellogg. A song book for your little ones. Rare in a nice dust jacket like this one. A clean, solid copy. Pages are bright. Please see our photos.

Signed - author and subject. First Edition. Near Fine / near fine. Isaac Stern "the man who saved Carnagie Hall", world famous violinist writes his auto-biography with acclaimed author Chaim Potok. The book has a stain on the outside page edge. It just barely intrudes into the page. The dust jacket has very minor wrinkles at the head and tail of the spine. Otherwise the book is excellent and unread. The book was purchased from the estate of Francis Blatt, violinist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for 25 years. Isaac Stern and Chaim Potok have signed on the title page (no inscription).

NY: Oxford University Press, 2013. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 2013, first printing. 8vo., xvii+293pp., illustrarted. A work of criticism situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, musicology, and cultural history, The Great American Songbooks demonstrates the importance of studying fiction and poetry from interdisciplinary perspectives, and it suggests new avenues for research in the dawning age of the digital humanities. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984, hardcover, 208 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Signed, inscribed, and dated 24/May/84 by the Author on the title page, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bump to head of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight bump to head of spine. The third volume of autobiography by the popular jazz singer, screenwriter, pop music, film, and TV critic deals with his early formative years in Liverpool. Mapped endpapers show Melly's neighborhood in Liverpool circa 1930. ISBN 9780297782773

SIGNED BY COUSIN BRUCIE on a custom-designed bookplate! Not personalized but wonderfully inscribed by Cousin Bruce. Bookplate is not attached, so you can place it anywhere. First printing; book is like new, but bumped at lower corner. Extremely heavy. Signed by author.

Garden City NY, Doubleday and Company, 1959, hardcover, 261 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, small light scuffs, slight wear to flap folds, spot of dampstain to heel of spine, signs of archival tape reinforcement to head of spine, closed tears to bottom of flaps, displays nicely in new Brodart sleeve. An ebullient memoir from the flamboyant musician, composer, and Academy Award winner, filled with personal stories and delightful anecdotes of the great figures in Russian, European, and American music and film. Illustrated with 16 black-&-white plates. Index appended.

NY: Oxford Univ Pr, 2013. Instructor's Edition. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford Univ Pr., 2013, first printing. 4to., 8 1/2" x 10 1/4", xxxi+1212pp., extensively illustrated with color reproductions and musical examples. Fine, like new in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.