The Lure of Music: Depicting the Human Side of Great Composers, with Stories of Their Inspired Creations by Downes, Olin - (1918).

Harper & Brothers, 1918. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918 Hb. VG/No Jacket. 1st. 353pp. Extremities rubbed; small tears top spine; light soiling on fore-edge & top edge. Illus.; record index. Teg.; dec. cover.. F. Hardcover.

Harper (USA), 1922. Hardcover. Good. 1922. 360 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are clean and bright with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Book has a forward lean. Boards are bowed. Tanning to spine and edges.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918. 331 pp, plus an index of recordings. Red boards are very scuffed, aged with edgewear. End pages foxed and browned. Inside hinges are weak. Binding is splitting at p. 322. Text pages have light, occasional foxing, no markings.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Emerson, Chase. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

NY.: Harper & Bros., (c1918).. Red cloth, t.e.g.. Covers faded, lightly soiled, interior clean/tight: about VG/no dj.. 8vo. Black & white portraits of 32 composers by Chase Emerson..

Harper & Brothers, 1918. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In red cloth. This copy in the rare jacket with couple chips to top of front panel of jacket. Name stamp..

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. Original Cloth. Very Good. Chase Emerson. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. 353 pages. Heavily illustrated. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining. Dated by copyright. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt title, author and lyre decoration to cover. Cover lightly worn. A very good copy of this history/biography of a collection of great composers with stories of some of their famous musical pieces.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1918. 8vo, pp. 353. Portraits by Chase Emerson. Donor's presentation on flyleaf, pastedown cracked slightly along fold, o/w VG. Short biographies of famous composers.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later. Near fine in very good dustwrapper. Book spine has light rubs at edges. Dustwrapper has substantial piece missing at the top part of spine some tears in corners. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

1 . hardback. Very Good. Depicting the Human Side of Great Composers, with stories of Their Inspired Creations. Portraits by Chase Emerson. NY (Harper) 1918. Spine dull else a very good copy.