Search Results: Music from Brillig Books

New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth spine over canary yellow paper covered boards. 244pp. including index and bibliography. A tight, clean, crisp, unmarked and unread volume in a bright, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 244pp. including extensive index and appendix of Principals and Credits for Important American Musical Comedies and another appendix with libretto of William Gill's "Adonis". Illustrated with black and white photographs. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright copy in a tight, bright price-clipped dust jacket. Fne in near fine dust jacket..

Boosey & Hawkes, 1987. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. Quarto, grey printed wraps (paperback). 46pp. including notes. Preface by Peter Bartok and by Bela Bartok. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs of the composer. Text in French, English, German and Hungarian. Moderate rubbing to exterior and some pencilled notes. Very Good..

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Black cloth spine over black paper covered boards. 301 pp. including index, bibliography and extensive notes. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The author follows the blues through its natural habitat in bars, clubs and "low joints". A fascinating ground level look at a major force in popular American music seeking it out where it lives. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket, unclipped. Fine in fine dust jacket. BRAND NEW..

Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: Creative Arts Book Co, 1981. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo, black illustrated stiff wraps. 129 pp. Reminiscences of greats from American popular music of the late 20th century from jazz to rock n roll, Bessie Smith to Stevie Wonder, Charlie Parker to the Doors. A tight, clean, fresh, stiff, square, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. One tiny almost imperceptible speck of abrasion on rear panel, else fine. FINE..

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth covered boards. 160pp. A musical guide to performance of Brahms Vocal Duets and Quartets with PIano, with musical keynotes and complete lyrics to the songs. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, bright, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Berkeley, CA: Univ of California Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo, illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 297pp. including index. An interesting survey of postmodern concerns in musicology and classical music composition with examples from the songs of Mendelssohn through Haydn, Ives, Bach, Goethe's songs to Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe. Appendix included with 3 Goethe songs. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine. AS NEW,.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, gray cloth spine over pale teal paper covered boards. 415 pp. including index, bibliography, chronology and discography. Illustrated with black and white photographs. An A-Z dictionary style general reference and great browsing entertainment for lovers of contemporary classical music. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a very tight, crisp, sharp, bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thin faint remainder mark across top edge, else fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Octavo, original brown cloth covered boards.358pp. A facsimile edition of the original and only other edition of 1886. This copy is very tight, very clean, fresh cloth and unread bright white pages. There is an odd compression mark to the pages but the book appears unread and otherwise as new. Near Fine..

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First printing. Tall quarto, grey cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 161 pp. plus detailed captions for each of the photographs. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of John Lennon, preceded by a short text by Norman Jopling. Thereafter every page is a full page or double page photograph of Lennon, with or without fellow Beatles and Yoko Ono. Hoffman was one of the lucky few to pick up on the Beatles early in their career, and one of the striking aspects f this collection, (which includes many now famous photographs of Lennon), is the fresh innocence of John Lennon in the earlly years of the Beatles. A great collection of portraits of the most controversial and perhaps the most important voice of the English band that changed the world. This copy is tight and clean, with very fresh cloth and sparkling spine titles, with a bright, white, clean, unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread volume… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1990. Book. As New. Cloth. Quarto, brown cloth covered boards. 208 pp. including index and bibliography. Generously illustrated throughout with color photographs of rock stars and their costumes. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp sharp bright dust jacket. Small semicricle of dampstain on board at spine base, not affecting interior. else fine. Near fine in fine dust jacket..

United Kingdom: Virgin Publishing, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, grey color photo-illustrated stiff wraps (paperback).143pp. Illustrated with color photographs. Near fine..

Philadelphia: United Church Press, 1966. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 456pp. including index and bibliography. A detailed guide to the historical background, composers, sources etc. of the hymns and spirituals that appear in the "Pilgrim's Hymnal", the most complete collection of American hymns. This volume is clean and tight with bright white, crisp and unblemished pages, but for a neat prior owner signature in the corner of the free front endpaper. The dust jacket has some toning and loss to top and bottom of spine. Moderate edgewear and short tears to corners of dust jacket. A very near fine volume in a very good minus dust jacket. Uncommon..

Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Opera Society, 2005. Book. As New. Cloth. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. Quarto, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles. Decorative musical notation endpapers. 187 pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, (many vintage) from the long history the the Pittsburgh Opera and opera performance in Pittsburgh. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author HAX MCCULLOUGH on title page. A very tight, bright, fresh, clean, unblemished volume with sparkling gilt and fresh cloth, unmarked and unread in a glossy, bright, clean, tight, brilliant dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First Edition, Quarto, navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine title. 280 pp. Translated from the German by Kurt Blaukopf.*Sein Leben, sein Werk und seine Welt in Zeitgenossischen Bildern und Texten.* Quarto. 280pp. The first part consisting of a photographic "documentation" of Mahler's life and times inclucing 362 illustrations, 37 in color, with facsimiles, black and white and color photographs and maps also in black and white and color. The second half of the book is a collection of textual documents including letters etc. which constitute an unusual reference resource for the Mahler scholar or student. A tight, clean, fresh, unmarked and unblemished document with fresh cloth and bright spine title in a crisp, tight, sharp, glossy, unclipped dust jacket. A collector's copy kept in mylar from the day of purchase. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

New York: Lawson Gould Music, 1964. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. First Edtition. Tall large octavo, stapled illusrated stiff wraps. 56 pp. Complete musical score to this African choral version of the Mass. A very tight, clean, crisp, stiff, unmarked volume with just a hint of dust. FINE. SCARCE..

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1962. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Imperial octavo, oatmeal colored cloth covered boards. 586 pp. including name and subject indexes. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and floor plans and diagrams of famous orchestra halls and auditoria. A fantastic survey of the acoustic properties of music halls around the world with analyis and commentary on the science/art of designing accoutically warm and intimate performance spaces. Tiny prior owner name at top corner of pastedown, else fine in a tight, clean, bright, unclipped dust jacket with a couple of short closed edge tears. Fine in very good plus dust jacket..

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1971. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. First Edition. Quarto, illustrated stiff wraps. 186pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, drawings and diagrams. Square, clean, unmarked. Tiny rub at spine base. Near fine..

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, (1976). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards decorated with crimson metallic decoration of a trumpet and purple metallic title. Top edge stained red. 250pp. A journal of New York jazz in the mid-70s. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a light crease to corner of front foldover, else fine. Balliett was jazz critic for the New Yorker and included is a biography of Charlie Parker and reviews of the Newport Jazz Festival. A beautiful copy in a very near fine dust jacket..

Pittsburgh: Robert Schmertz Book Fund, 1976. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, illustrated white stapled stiff wraps. 62 pp. plus "Production Notes". Illustrated throughout with brilliant color lithographs. Errata slip pasted on verso of title page. A collection of songs (with musical scores) by this beloved Pittsburgh folk singer and composer of songs about the rivers and mountains of Western Pennsylvania. A very tight, bright, clean unblemished volume with brilliant illustrations with no rust to staples and apparently unused. A mere suspicion of soil at a couple of spots which only shows on this bright white cover. Fine. Uncommon..