Grandpa's Song and Picture Album by Grandpa Jones

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.

Berlin: Adolph Fürstner [PN A.5654F.], 1935. Folio. Original publisher's full gray cloth. [i] (title), [ii] (blank), [iii] ("Dramatis Personae"), [iv] (blank), [5]-250 pp. Text in German. With illustration by Lovis Corinth to page [5]. Binding very slightly worn and rubbed. Trenner 223. Mueller von Asow p. 409. First performed on January 25, 1909 at the Königlichen Opernhaus in Dresden under Ernst von Schuch. "[Elektra] ... marked the beginning of [Strauss's] artistic association with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whom he had first met in Berlin in 1899. Having seen Reinhardt's riveting production of Hofmannsthal's Elektra in the autumn of 1905, Strauss was convinced the play would make a compelling opera. Not entirely sure he should compose consecutive tragedies, he nonetheless gave in to Hofmannsthal's pleading and vigorously began composing Elektra in the summer of 1906. As he had with Oscar Wilde's Salome, he set the play to music, which was finished in 1908 and given its première in 1909 as… Read More

[Poland] Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1953, hardcover. Beautifully made book of selected 16th and early 17th century Polish music, including facsimiles of the original manuscripts and woodcuts, plus nice page decorations. -- Text in POLISH. Errata sheet tipped in. -- Hardcover, 10.5x13 inches. Condition: near fine (spine cloth foxed, else really nice) with bright, very good minus dust jacket (edgeworn).

Philadelphia: G. und D. Billmeyer, 1814. Hardcover. Good +. Title continued: "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. Fünfte Auflage." [4], 148, [8], 585, [9], 26 p., frontispiece of David playing his harp: music; 18 cm. Original calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Printed in two columns. Wood engraved head- and tail-pieces. "Sammlung alter und neuer Geistreicher Lieder . . . der Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen" has separate title page dated 1814 (Vierte Auflage). Final 26 pages contain the Heidelberger catechism and some prayers. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Elizabeth Petry; date in another hand below: Sept 12th 1823. Small green woodcut of a running stag on front fixed endpaper. Early American Imprints, 32226;… Read More

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

Boston: Jenks & Palmer, 1843. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition. 152 p.: music; 29 cm. Black cloth spine; brown paper over boards printed in black. Back cover has advertisements for works by Webb published by Jenks & Palmer. "Consisting of Systematic Instructions for Forming and training the Voice, and Suitable Vocalizing Exercises and solfeggios; Together with a Collection of Songs, for One, Two, Three and Four Voices." Scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; cloth is frayed at spine ends and split over front joint; minor soiling of a few page margins; otherwise, clean and tight.