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MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS
by Weiss, Piero and Taruskin, Richard [Selected and Annotated by]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0028729102
- ISBN 13
- 9780028729107
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Schirmer Books, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 556 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine burgundy with beige lettering. Dust jacket has light soiling wear exteriorly with slightly rubbed head/tail edges. Boards show extremely mild sunning to the spine and minor wear to the head/tail edges. Text block has very slight toning to the edges. Illustrated. First Edition, First Printing. 1372399. FP New Rockville Stock.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1372399
- Title
- MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS
- Author
- Weiss, Piero and Taruskin, Richard [Selected and Annotated by]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0028729102
- ISBN 13
- 9780028729107
- Publisher
- Schirmer Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...