Search Results: Music, Composers & Musical History from NEXUS BOOKS

Brighton, Sussex, England: Amati Publishing Ltd., 1961. First edition. Hardcover in dustjacket. Book is Near Fine, in virtually "as new" condition: burgundy cloth binding, gilt decorated on front panel, gilt lettered on spine. No inscriptions, no markings of any kind, very clean internally and externally, no rubbing. Binding is firm and tight, with no cracks or splits whatsoever. Jacket has a couple of edge tears (no paper loss) and is now in a protective mylar sleeve. An excellent copy and scarce thus..

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962. First edition. Hardcover, 206 pages. The development of the street ballad from traditional song to popular newspaper. A VG+ copy in original blue cloth, neat ink name on front pastedown. In a price-clipped VG+ dustjacket with a couple of short, closed tears along the top edge..

New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 1989. Reprint; softcover. A VG+ copy, with no markings or stains. Clean, bright and well-bound..

London & Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis, 1920 Fourth printing. With twenty-one tipped-in b.& w. illustrations from photographs of the composers, singers, etc. Spine quite heavily sunned else a clean, tight, unworn copy, VG+, in original red cloth. Neat bookplate on first free endpaper. One of the excellent, quality productions from the publisher T.N. Foulis..

London - New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1961. Reprint, printer's code reads "503.561". A VG+ copy in original yellow boards. Small inkstamp on front free endpaper but no other previous ownership markings. A very clean, tight, unworn copy. In a price-clipped G+/VG- dustwrapper which has a one inch chip at bottom of front panel..

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Lee Valley Tools, Limited / Algrove Publishing Limited, 2000. Modern hardcover reprint, a facsimile of the 1885 second edition. A Near Fine copy in full burgundy cloth binding. No internal markings, cloth lovely and bright, lettering crisp and unrubbed; three folded violin plans loosely inserted at rear..