Search Results: Music from DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

Old Tappan, NJ, U.S.A.: Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1988. 240 pages with several illustrations. Provides a detailed recostruction of Mozart's last year - 1791. Investigates his musical works and the potential explanations of his death at the age of 35. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books Llc, 2003. 360 pages. Coffee table size book. Here is the inside story of the history of the Rolling Stones-according to the Rolling Stones themselves. They have also opened up their personal and band archives to include many rare and intimate photographs that are interwoven with their great stories of forty years of making music together. Hundreds of photographs, the vast majority of which were previously unpublished. clean As new.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. 2 Volume set. 693pp/illus. A full and well-illustrated biography of Beethoven, which vividly describes his lasting influence on music and composing. Rare 1st 1929 printing. Corners bumped. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Portland, OR: Amadeus Pr, 1991. 341pp/illus. In depth study of all the concertante works of the French composer, with detailed analyses of the works. Includes an extended biographical sketch, background material on the French musical scene of the time and reviews of performances. Translated from the German.. DJ slightly faded. Text clean.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 1987. 480 pp/illus. Comini examines the contradictory imagery of the 'real' Beethoven in contemporary and posthumous accounts and illustrations. Rippling oalng top edge of first 40 pages. Scarce. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Chappell Music Company , 1970. 256 pages with the sheet music and complete unabridged lyrics of 44 songs. Also inclues 108 photos and data about the respective shows and films.. No Additional Printings. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Cassell, 1946. 299pp. Illustrations; facsimiles; music examples.. Tight and Clean. . 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1977. 215 pp/illus Scrupulous and detailed recreation of the Moravian celebration in Salem of the first anniversary of the Declaration of Independence after peace was declared. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boston, MA: J. B. Millet Company, 1901. 1901 ed. 4 vols only. Volumes 1-4. each 160 pp/illus. per vol. khaki green cloth bdgs. with dark green stamped front boards, gilt-stamped spines, teg. Lavishly illustarted with 100s of portraits, facsimile manuscripts, caricatures and misc ellamous illus., most in b/w with some full colour plates. . Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Ernest Benn, 1969. 268pp w/12 plates including many figures, five appendixes, condensed subject index, index of names, and index of instruments. All you want to know about the flute in this scholarly but accesible volume. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Czechoslovak Art and Craft, 1925. Rose cloth backed color pictorial boards of a clean copy of the book. 25 numbered pages with the brightly colored and energetic images that we usually associate with Rudolph Mates. There are ten songs with appropriate images on the matching page; great endpapers, and even a nice border design. Clean. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong).

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1935. Book has 365 pages with color frontis and over 50 reproductions from photographs. Nice copy..clean and tight inside! A few dirt marks on spine. Previous owner name pencilled lightly in front endpaper (could probably be erased without leaving much of a mark.) . New Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Athens, OH, U.S.A.: Ohio University Press, 1976. 294 pp.; illustrated from musical examples; bibliography. An account of the musical activities of the religious society the "Harmonists", who built the towns Harmony, PA, Harmony, IN and Economy, PA. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Sheridan House, 1944. 253 pages, b/w illustrations by Richard A. Loederer and Kurt Werth, music notation, index, illustrated endpapers. Over 100 illus and 30 complete piano scores. Light chipping to dj. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Coward, McCann. 475pp/illus. This is the revised edition with 11 colour plates and over 400 illustrations in the text published by Coward-McCann, Inc. A biography of their lives and music. DJ chipped with tear along back. Text clean.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1993. 258pp/illus. A study and celebration of Handel's great masterwork. Includes numerous illustrations, a summary of main variants, a bibliography and index. The author is Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and an acknowledged authority on seventeenth and eighteenth century music. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Sanctuary Pub Ltd, 2000. 239pp/illus. Author Foehr talked to internationally-renowned reggae stars at home & in the studios of Kingston, sought out Kumina dancers, Nyabinghi drummers, Rasta priests & Maroon musicians in order to explain reggae’s roots. The book is as much an evocative travelogue as a journey into the island’s unique music. "A voyage of discovery for music-lovers & travelers alike." Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Taplinger, 1969. 244pp, over 400 imaginatively selected illustrations introduce the reader to the composer's career, his friends, the circle of people amongst whom he moved, the buildings and towns where he lived. DJ has light wear. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hamburg, Germany: Musikverlag Hans Sikorski , 1950. 60p Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Color plates and other color illustrations surrounding the songs are by Walter Buhe. Music with lyrics in German for, Mother and Child. Illustrated endpapers. Beautiful book. German text. Corners bumped. Clean . First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co.. Book has 202 pages. No date - circa late 1800s? Brown cloth cover with gilt title on front cover and binding. Top edge of pages are gilt. Some wear at the edges and corners of the cover. Pages are a bit browned with age. Previous owner name written in pencil in front endpaper. Rear endpaper has a line drawn inside the rear cover. Chapters: Chopin - Style and Improvements - The Adagio of the Second Concerto - Funeral March - Psychological Character of the Compositions of Chopin, National Character of the Polonaise - Oginsky - Meyseder - Weber - Chopin - His Polonaise in F Sharp, Minor - Polonaise Fantaisie, Chopin's Mazourkas - Polish Ladies - Mazourka in Poland - Tortured Motives - Early Life of Chopin - Zal, etc.. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Very Good(-)/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.