Recollections of an Old Musician by Ryan, Thomas - 1899

Ireland 90r18r Ryan, Thomas. Recollections of an old musician. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1890, xvi, 274p, photos. Good, clean, solid copy. $10.00 Box 710
Ryan, Irish-born, was a member of the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston. Interesting photos.

E.P. DUTTON & CO. Hardcover. GOOD. NOEAN 0 9789900245544 1899 DARK RED CLOTH WITH GOLD TOOLING, GOOD, LIGHT WEAR [PREV OWNER PEN NAME FFEP (1899), LIGHT CORNER WEAR, EDGES TAN] (NOEAN )

Sands & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. 274 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Insert to front pastedown. Inscription to front endpaper. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

NY: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1899., 1899.. Good. - 8vo, burgundy cloth (bumped & rubbed; tail of spine slightly frayed); titled in gilt on front cover & spine with gilt decorations on front cover; t.e.g. xvi & 274pp. (front hinge starting; small fragment of paper from inner edge of p. xiv lightly adhered to p. xv). Illustrated with 46 plates and pictorial title page. Good. <p>First edition. An autobiography by the clarinetist-violinist, in which he recounts the memories of his musical life and the various orchestras with which he played. Included are anecdotes about such personalities of the music world as Jenny Lind, Ole Bull, Julius Eichberg, Anne Louise Cary, Belleti, Catherine Hays, Madame Sontag, Carl Eckert, Paul Julien, Alboni, Hector Berlioz, Christine Nilsson, Otto Hegner, Ernst Perabo, and many others.

Paperback / softback. New.

Da Capo Press, 1979. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

BiblioLife, 2009-04-10. Paperback. Used:Good.

Hardback. New.

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Hardback. New.