Early American Sheet Music: Its Lure and Its Lore 1768-1889
by Harry Dichter & Elliott Shapiro
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
R.R. Bowker Company, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS on front free endpaper. 1941 1st edition. A VG+ copy in a VG example of the uncommon dustjacket. A degree of chipping to the head and foot of the jacket spine. Stilll, a very presentable copy. Quarto, 287 pgs. Signed by Author(s).
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- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 772
- Title
- Early American Sheet Music: Its Lure and Its Lore 1768-1889
- Author
- Harry Dichter & Elliott Shapiro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- R.R. Bowker Company
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- SHEET MUSIC, EARLY AMERICAN MUSIC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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Waccabuc, New York
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- VG
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- Quarto
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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