Giselle by Adolphe Adam ; William McDermott (editor) - 2000: Full score

Carnarvon: W. Jarrett Roberts, 1882. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed "with the composer's compliments" to (Jarred Lauvago?), 1882. Score to a Cantata composed for the 1881 Merthyr Tydvil National Eisteddvod. Lyrics in Welsh and English. Introductory text in English. 152 pages (score) plus introduction and list of subscribers. Pages and binding intact. Red cloth cover with a spot on front and some rubbing and edge wear, including tears/chips to ends of spine. Good Plus Condition, close to Very Good.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. "To which is added a chronological list of all the operas that have been performed in Europe." 2 volumes (xvi, 381, [1] p.; [4], 452 p.): engraved portrait frontispieces and 4 additional plates of portraits; 23 cm. Half dark green morocco with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled spine titles and decoration. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by G.A. Brown & Co. Gift inscription on blank leaf following front free endpaper in each volume: "Hazel Wegeng?? Tilden from Mr. Wanamaker October 8th 1915." Includes index; "Chronological list of operas, and their composers"; "Alphabetical list of dramatic composers, not pre-eminent as operatic writers"; and "List of authorities." In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed, most prominently at lower corners of boards; foxing of plates and facing pages, heavy in some places; occasional light… Read More

London- New York Etc.: Circa 1900, 1900. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Carl Heinzen's Personal Archive Of Ephemera. [Henriette M. Heinzen, From Whose Estate These Examples Came, Lived In Pasadena And Is Credited By Carl Wittke With Providing Archives For His Biography Of Her Grandfather, The German Radical Karl Heinzen; Appaently Carl Heinzen The Violinist Was His Son.] Music, "The Curfew Bell" By Lynes, After Rosa Hartwick Thorpe's Poem31 Pp., 1891, Faded Pencil Inscription, Also Note [I Think His Signature] Of Heinzen As Director At A Certain Place, 1892. Programme, Town Hall, Twickham,2/12/1895, 4 Pp. Brochure, Archer's Anglo-American Musical Agency, Season 18992 Pp + Fine Press Covers, Gilt, Cord Binding. Brochure "Carl Heinzen", Archer'sanglo-American Musical Agency, 8 Pp. Page From "St. James's Budget", Feb 24, 1899 With Paragraph And Photo Of Heinzen; 10 1/2" X 8 1/4" Program, St. James's Hall, Feb 7Th 1899, 8 Pp. Cover… Read More

Germantaun [Germantown, Pa.]: Michael Billmeyer, 1811. Hardcover. Very Good -. Zweyte Auflage." Title continued: "mit Fleiss zusammen getragen, und in gegenwaertiger Form und Ordnung gestellt; nebst einem dreyfachen Register." [4], 39, [1], 412, [20], 20, [2] p.: frontispiece of David playing the harp, music; 17 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Original clasps. All page edges red. Printed in two columns. Sammlung Alter und Neuer Geistreichen Gesänge (Zweyte Auflage) has separate title page and pagination. Early American Imprints, Second series (Shaw & Shoemaker), 23165. First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S.A., 1812. Includes indexes. The selections from the Psalms of David include music. In Very Good- Condition: leather is rubbed; beginning to crakle on spine and front board; foxing and browning; otherwise, clean and tight.

London: W. Hay, 1775. Hardcover. Very Good +. Scarce. Complete in 3 volumes. 12mo. Full blue leather, 5 bands and gilt tiles on spine. All edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers with gilt decoration on leather at pastedown. Vol. I , ii + 170pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue, has a piece missing from the edge of the last page & small tear (no text effected). Vol. II, 230pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue. Vol. III, 247pp plus index. Authors include, Langhorne, Russel, Macfarlane, Cunningham, Ogilvie, Scoto Britannus, Dunbar, Bellentyne, Pennycuick, Lindsay, Archibald Scott, Fergusson, Alexander Robertson, Murray, Graham, Drummond, etc. Particularly in the first volume many of the poems and songs are attributed to “a gentleman” or similar. The subjects range from parodies to eulogies, folk songs to love songs and all that life entails. Ex reference library, with pictorial bookplate on front pastedowns, single stamp on front & rear endpapers, first and last pages,… Read More

Wallishauffer, Wien.,1833. FIRST EDITION. Gatherings unopened. Some pages a bit browned but overall very good in original publishers printed wraps, small stamps to covers.Some light creasing to wraps but still a very good copy of this fragile item. Housed in cloth folder with the bookplate of Hans Brukner (dated 1906).:

Philadelphia: Steiner und Kämmerer, und H. Kämmerer, jun, 1797. Hardcover. Very Good. Title contintued: "als auch für den öffentlichen Gottesdienst enthalten sind. Nebst einem Anhang des Heydelbergischen Catechismus, wie auch erbaulicher Gebäter. Nach einem Synodal Schluss zusammen-getragen und eingerichtet vor die Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen in den Vereinigten Staaten von America." [8], 148, [8], 585, [43] p.: frontispiece, music; 17 cm. Signatures: pi4 A-N6 (A)-(Ddd)6 (Eee)2 (12mo). Errors in signing: I1 not signed; (N) signed N; (Mm2) signed (Mn2). Contemporary full black calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Reformiert Gesangbuch. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Red leather label on front board with gilt-tooled former owner's name, "1798" and border. Gilt-tooled chain-pattern borders on both boards; gilt-rolled edges. All page edges… Read More

Philadelphia: G.E. Blake, 1810. Very Good. 15, [1] p.: music for piano; 32 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Music for piano only. At foot of title page is a 3.5 x 4.5 cm. label with engraving of a fortepiano, violin, and harp: "Sold at P. Hardt's Book & Music Store, York, Pa." No date of publication. George E. Blake (1775-1871) was a music publisher in Philadelphia from 1803 to 1860 or later, much of that time at the address given here, 13 S. 5th St. A monthly literary magazine, The Village Museum, was published by P. Hardt in York, Pa., from 1810 to 1814. This was probably the same Peter Hardt who was active as a printer in York from 1815 to 1819, and who published the York Recorder from 1818 to 1821. This was probably published between 1810 and 1819, most likely around 1810. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; lightly soiled.

R. H. Evans. London. 1810. NEW EDITION. The first Evans edition. 8vo. (7.6 x 5 inches). xxviii,352pp. A fine clean copy in attractive mid twentieth century leather binding, by T. F. Ford, of full brown calf. Spine decorated with gilt bands and piping and floral centre pieces in the compartments. Black label, gilt. Both boards with decorative border design in gilt and small black labels within a decorative design, lettered "T. F. F. 1943". Inner dentelles in gilt. Plain magnolia endpapers. Top edge gilt. A small neat ink note inside the rear cover states that the book was 'rebound by T F Ford 1943' and a neat five line inscription on the front free end-paper shows that the book was bound by Thomas F Ford, Architect and presented by his sons to Canon L B Tirrell on his retirement in November 1971. ---- 'Thomas Francis Ford. FRIBA (9 May 1891 â€" 11 January 1971) was a prolific ecclesiastical architect, Diocesan Architect for Southwark, an Ashpitel Prize winner at the Royal Institute of British… Read More

Paris: Louis-Michaud, n.d.. Limited edition. Erotic French love story set in Laos, telling the tale of Kao Som Sène and the songs he sings for the beautiful Sao Van Di. Limited first edition. (Number 602/870) Rare. One of 870 copies on alfa paper, bound in pictorial wrappers, 170 mm x 255 mm, 100 (4) pages, photographic frontispiece, 12 full-page coloured plates, 20 drawings throughout text; light foxing to endpapers otherwise a vey good copy.