Search Results: Music from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Knickerbocker Press/G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. American War Ballads and Lyrics, Vol.2: The Civil War," is the second part of a two-volume set, containing songs and lyrics from the Civil War era. (Vol. 1 features music of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.) Included among the 76 pieces are "John Brown's Body," "Reveille," and "Barbara Frietchie," as well as many about individual soldiers and battles. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 278 pages plus 6 pages of ads for other Putnam's books in this "Knickerbocker Nuggets" series of pocket-sized works; 21 illustrations including the frontispiece, which still retains its tissue paper protection. This work was produced in both one and two-volume editions, and, in this book, the last ad -- unnumbered -- is for the work itself, an indication of another edition to come and that this small, 2-vol. set is the… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hersey's 24th book, one he notes "was written for the fun of it," and that he hopes will be read the same way, is the story of a Stradivarius violin named Anonietta, created in 1699 and,over the next two centuries, affecting the lives and music of, among others, Mozart, Berlioz and Stravinsky; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The third novel in Sublett's widely-praised mystery series featuring R & B bass player and sometime skip tracer, Martin Fender, this time on the road from Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles in search of a killer; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. This is Gollin's fourth mystery featuring the Antiqua Players, a group of classical muscians and amateur sleuths; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket has pair of half-inch closed tears on upper edge of rear panel, o/w very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The thirteenth novel in Deaver's bestselling crime-thriller series featuring forensic detectives Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs. This time the case involves the kidnapping and murder of a New York City businesman with a minature hangman's noose left at the kidnapping scene followed by the surfacing of a recording of the man being slowly strangled, his gasps the backdrop to a strange, eerie piece of music. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches,464 pages including acknowledgments and author bio, bound in dark-blue paper-covered boards with lighter blue lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel shows four strands of rope crossed over each other to form an "x" superimposed on a blue waterscape that fades into darkness. Lettering on front panel and spine is blue and white. Back panel shows full color, head-and-shoulders photo of bearded Deaver. Not… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author's first novel is set at a midwestern university where Professor Eliot Upton, trying to complete a long-delayed book on the composer Elgar, is appointed to lead an inquiry into a campus murder. Collectable.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Thomas' first novel, which precedes his highly acclaimed "The White Hotel." Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some very minor chipping at corners, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable. Scarce.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cohen's first novel is a bestselling page-turner set in 1894 New York City and features one of the world's great opera singers and an abandoned young woman living in a deserted mansion at Grammercy Park; text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear.

Rutland, VT: Academy Books, 1980. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Large Softcover. Very Good to Near Fine. A history of bluegrass music liberally illustrated with black & white photos from the 1940s-70s of many of country music's legendary performers. White pictorial covers, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 122 pages, original price on back cover. Some minimal light creasing, o/w covers and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. No tears, no chipping, this copy has received very limited use. A collectable copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fleming's first novel is a historical mystery set in 1950s Las Vegas featuring Deacon, a white horn player and jazz genius, caught in the middle of a mob-financed plan for the city's first all-black casino; text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Gramercy Publishing Co., 1964. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Edited by James Barke and Sydney Goodsir Smirth; A collection of bawdy Scottish folksongs and poetry, either written or found by poet Robert Burns; Book Club Edition; text is clean and tight, top edge slightly soiled; dustjacket is rubbed, slightly edgeworn with small tear upper right corner of front panel, spine faded with small tear.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., Publishers, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The author, a noted music critic and writer, shows how the changing sounds and styles in music from antiquity's unwritten works to today's electronic compositions have found equivalent expression in the visual arts, as well as explaining the impact of religion and nationalism on music and other arts; 8 x 9 1/2," illustrated with numerous black & white and color photographs; boards and text are clean and square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chips.

New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A comic novel set in Africa at the headquarters of the Music Programme, an international agency whose mission is to bring nations together through the universal medium of creative music but is under investigation as a haven for drunks, deadbeats and deviants; Micou's First Book; a Fine, collectable copy in like dustjacket.

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first novel by this well-known contemporary composer whose memoir, 'Continuo: A Life In Music,' earned praise both for writing skill and musical philosophy. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is clean, very minimal surface or edgewear. Collectable.

New York: New American Library, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Authored by New York Assistant District Attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum, who also worked on the Kennedy assassination investigation and the Hillside Strangler case, and Peter S. Greenberg, a nationally syndicated columnist and producer,this is the True Crime account of Charles Yukl, a gifted piano teacher, sensitive and reserved, who brutally murdered an young, aspiring actress, was caught and convicted of his crime, and then, eight years later, released from prison to act out his violent sexual fantasies a second time. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only some light surface and edge wear, with minor creasing at the top of the spine, no tears or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy of this classic case of justice system failure.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sublett's first book and the first in his mystery series featuring Austin,Texas, bass player and skip tracer Martin Fender; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket slightly rubbed, with a trace of wear at corners.

Garden City: Doubleday (for the Crime Club), 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Gollin's third mystery featuring the Antiqua Players, a group of classical musicians and amateur sleuths invited to perform at a Verona music festival; remainder spray on bottom edge of text, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; pair of small closed tears top of dustjacket's back panel, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.