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SOME REMINISCENCES AND THE BAGPIPE by Duncan Fraser, Alexander - 1907

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SOME REMINISCENCES AND THE BAGPIPE by Duncan Fraser, Alexander - 1907

SOME REMINISCENCES AND THE BAGPIPE

by Duncan Fraser, Alexander

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Edinburgh: Wm. J. Hay, John Knox's House,Edinburgh, 1907. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Wm. J. Hay, John Knox's House,Edinburgh, 1907. 1st Edition . Good. First Edition. Royal 8vo. 432pp. Colour frontis, 35 half-tone plates. Gilt stamped blue cloth with gilt piper on the front panel. Light rubbing to edges. Top edge gilt with library stamp. Bookplate to end endpaper and 'Discard' print on front endpaper. Ex reference library with embossed library stamp on 2 pages see pic. Handwritten note of library no. on spine & inside. The plates and titled tissue guards are all very good and clean. One of the best books on bagpipes and interesting anecdotes. ***** Heavy and may require extra postage*****
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  • Publisher Wm. J. Hay, John Knox's House,Edinburgh
  • Place of Publication Edinburgh
  • Date Published 1907
  • Keywords BAGPIPE, PIPES, SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND

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A Treatise of Musick, Containing the Principles of Composition. Wherein the Several Parts Thereof...
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A Treatise of Musick, Containing the Principles of Composition. Wherein the Several Parts Thereof Are Fully Explained, and Made Useful

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1752. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1752 1st Edition Hardcover Good/No Jacket A presumed 1st edition of this rare text Library rebound in dark blue cloth over board with gilt titles 176pp plus 2pp errata 'Translated into English from the original in French and entered at Stationer's-Hall, and published according to the Act of Parliament' 44 chapters covering all aspects of music composition: rules, chord sequences, cadence,modulation etc etc By a Mr Rameau, 'Principal Composer to his Most Christian Majesty, and to the Opera at Paris' A fascinating and relevant book with many examples/figures throughout the text Ex library copy with a bookplate and stamp on the front pastedown, handwritten no opposite the contents page One other library stamp on the last page Library name on front cover in gilt No other library markings Some age spotting to pages and a water mark covering on the outer edge of 2 pages (approx 15cm deep by 10cm long) Generally a good copy of this desirable book
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Royal Naval Biography; or Memoirs of the Services of the all the Flag Officers, Superannuated...
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Royal Naval Biography; or Memoirs of the Services of the all the Flag Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Very Good. First editions. Complete in 12 volumes. 'Illustrated by a Series of Historical and Explanatory Notes, which will be found to contain an Account of all the Naval Actions and other Important Events, from the Commencement of the Late Reign, in 1760, to the Present Period. With Copious Addenda'. 8vo, library rebound in half leather with blue cloth boards. Titles in gilt on spine & library name on cover.
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Trilby: In Three Vols

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London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, complete in 3 volumes. Original tan cloth boards with blue - green titles and decoration on front. Corners bumped and some minor edge wear. Some cracking of inner hinges, slightly cocked. Generally good + and nice & clean inside. This was published in lower numbers than the more common illustrated edition. Stated fourth edition inside, but this publisher (like others in Victorian Britain) often stamped later edition numbers on books to make it seem like the books were in high demand and selling out quickly. Wildly popular in Victorian times, the novel that introduced Svengali to the popular consciousness. Scarce.
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The Caledoniad A Collection of Poems, Written Chiefly by Scottish Authors
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The Caledoniad A Collection of Poems, Written Chiefly by Scottish Authors

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London: W. Hay, 1775. Hardcover. Very Good +. Scarce. Complete in 3 volumes. 12mo. Full blue leather, 5 bands and gilt tiles on spine. All edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers with gilt decoration on leather at pastedown. Vol. I , ii + 170pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue, has a piece missing from the edge of the last page & small tear (no text effected). Vol. II, 230pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue. Vol. III, 247pp plus index. Authors include, Langhorne, Russel, Macfarlane, Cunningham, Ogilvie, Scoto Britannus, Dunbar, Bellentyne, Pennycuick, Lindsay, Archibald Scott, Fergusson, Alexander Robertson, Murray, Graham, Drummond, etc. Particularly in the first volume many of the poems and songs are attributed to “a gentleman” or similar. The subjects range from parodies to eulogies, folk songs to love songs and all that life entails. Ex reference library, with pictorial bookplate on front pastedowns, single stamp on front & rear endpapers, first and last pages,… Read More
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, tan cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 319pp with coloured frontispiece. Mark to the back cover as pictured, crack to binding at the contents page. Generally very good and clean inside, pages tanned. A tale of the rise and fall of the Antichrist. Scarce in this edition.
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A Treatise of Musick, Containing the Principles of Composition. Wherein the Several Parts Thereof...
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A Treatise of Musick, Containing the Principles of Composition. Wherein the Several Parts Thereof Are Fully Explained, and Made Useful

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1752. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1752 1st Edition Hardcover Good/No Jacket A presumed 1st edition of this rare text Library rebound in dark blue cloth over board with gilt titles 176pp plus 2pp errata 'Translated into English from the original in French and entered at Stationer's-Hall, and published according to the Act of Parliament' 44 chapters covering all aspects of music composition: rules, chord sequences, cadence,modulation etc etc By a Mr Rameau, 'Principal Composer to his Most Christian Majesty, and to the Opera at Paris' A fascinating and relevant book with many examples/figures throughout the text Ex library copy with a bookplate and stamp on the front pastedown, handwritten no opposite the contents page One other library stamp on the last page Library name on front cover in gilt No other library markings Some age spotting to pages and a water mark covering on the outer edge of 2 pages (approx 15cm deep by 10cm long) Generally a good copy of this desirable book
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Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland selected under the direction of . Sir William...
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Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland selected under the direction of . Sir William Gibson Craig . photozincographed by command of Her Majesty Queen Victoria by Colonel Sir Henry James. Complete in 3 Parts

by Henry James

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Published by The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Ordnance Survey Office, 1867. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Published by The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Ordnance Survey Office, 1867. 1st Edition . Fair. Complete in 3 Parts. Elephant folio, approx. 22'' by 16''. Original quarter leather with blue cloth binding, titles & Royal crest in gilt on front cover & emblem on back cover. All parts show shelf wear, particularly at corners/edges/spine. All absent outer spine. Upper edge gilt. Occasional foxing/marks throughout, particularly at front of parts II & III. Inner books generally in good condition for their age. Part I (1867), scrape to front cover, xviii + 43pp with 78 manuscripts illustrated on 41 plates. Part II (1870), Xxii + 68pp, 84 facsimiles, Part III (1871), Xvi + 108 facsimiles & accompanying text. This set covers all the major events in Scotland's history from 900 AD, royal marriages, deaths, battles, letters, charters etc to the Treaty of Union (1706).… Read More
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Trilby
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Trilby: In Three Vols

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London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, complete in 3 volumes. Original tan cloth boards with blue - green titles and decoration on front. Corners bumped and some minor edge wear. Some cracking of inner hinges, slightly cocked. Generally good + and nice & clean inside. This was published in lower numbers than the more common illustrated edition. Stated fourth edition inside, but this publisher (like others in Victorian Britain) often stamped later edition numbers on books to make it seem like the books were in high demand and selling out quickly. Wildly popular in Victorian times, the novel that introduced Svengali to the popular consciousness. Scarce.
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The Caledoniad A Collection of Poems, Written Chiefly by Scottish Authors
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London: W. Hay, 1775. Hardcover. Very Good +. Scarce. Complete in 3 volumes. 12mo. Full blue leather, 5 bands and gilt tiles on spine. All edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers with gilt decoration on leather at pastedown. Vol. I , ii + 170pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue, has a piece missing from the edge of the last page & small tear (no text effected). Vol. II, 230pp plus index & one page of publisher’s catalogue. Vol. III, 247pp plus index. Authors include, Langhorne, Russel, Macfarlane, Cunningham, Ogilvie, Scoto Britannus, Dunbar, Bellentyne, Pennycuick, Lindsay, Archibald Scott, Fergusson, Alexander Robertson, Murray, Graham, Drummond, etc. Particularly in the first volume many of the poems and songs are attributed to “a gentleman” or similar. The subjects range from parodies to eulogies, folk songs to love songs and all that life entails. Ex reference library, with pictorial bookplate on front pastedowns, single stamp on front & rear endpapers, first and last pages,… Read More
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Black Magic
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, tan cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 319pp with coloured frontispiece. Mark to the back cover as pictured, crack to binding at the contents page. Generally very good and clean inside, pages tanned. A tale of the rise and fall of the Antichrist. Scarce in this edition.
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Some Reminiscences and the Bagpipe
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Some Reminiscences and the Bagpipe

by Alexander Duncan Fraser

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Some Reminiscences and the Bagpipe

by Alexander Duncan Fraser

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Some Reminiscences and the Bagpipe

by Alexander Duncan Fraser

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Trial by Jury

Trial by Jury

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69 pp. + ads. Plate 17453. Vocal score, wraps, quarto 8.5 x 11 in. Front cover reattached with Japan paper, some wear to spine and edges, yet very good. Likely a printing from 1992-, given the 62 W. 45th St. address on the wraps. Printed in England. Trial by Jury is a one-act comic opera that could be considered a seminal venture in their partnership. It premiered at the Royalty Theatre in London in March, 1875.
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SKIFFLE:; The Story of Folk-song with a Jazz Beat. With a Foreword by Lonnie Donegan (The King of...

SKIFFLE:; The Story of Folk-song with a Jazz Beat. With a Foreword by Lonnie Donegan (The King of Skiffle)

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London: Robert Hale, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. 119pp, index; 13pp illus from photographs. Bound in pictorial boards, dust jacket. 8" x 5.25" This first book on the subject traces the history of skiffle from its slave and jazz roots through the 1950s. The second part of the book is a how-to for forming a skiffle band as well as a look at the "origins, progress and personalities" of Britain's most popular skiffle bands.
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The Pirates of Penzance in Full Score

The Pirates of Penzance in Full Score: New Edition by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones

by W. S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan

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272 pp. Quarto, 9 x 12 in. Illustrated wraps, near fine, only the slightest wear covers. Full score. New edition by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones. Official Premiere: December 31, 1879, Fifth Avenue Theater, New York, New York, USA; London Premiere: April 3, 1880, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Orchestra and Chorus Opera Comique, Arthur Sullivan, conductor.
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PIOBAIREACHD AND ITS INTERPRETATION: CLASSICAL MUSIC OF THE HIGHLAND BAGPIPE

by MacNEILL, SEUMAS & FRANK RICHARDSON

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Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: 130. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. The author, an acknowledged authority on the subject, describes the structure and history of Piobaireachd. A very good copy with moderate edge wear on the covers and some fading of the colour on the rear panel.
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Congregational Hymnary

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This antiquarian book is in fair condition. The binding is loose and coming apart and the cover is torn along the spine and the corners are worn. The pages inside the book are tanned and yellowed. One of the pages is loose. This book is not for reading or handling. It should be used as a collector's piece."The Congregational Church Hymnal, edited at the request of the Congregational Union by the Rev. Dr. G.S. Barrett, was published in 1887, and has been widely used by Congregational Churches both in this country and abroad. It is not possible any adequate estimate of the great influence of the book...." - from the Congregational Hymnal
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Bob Dylan: From a Hard Rain to a Slow Train
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Bob Dylan: From a Hard Rain to a Slow Train

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Turnbridge Wells: Midas Books; New York: Hippocrene Books, [1982], First Edition, 8vo, [11] 176pp [2], photos on 2 plates. Hardcover, red cloth covered boards with dust jacket. Very Good + condition. Pages are unmarked with slight toning and slight foxing to top page edges. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The Influence Of Music On History And Morals: A Vindication Of Plato

The Influence Of Music On History And Morals: A Vindication Of Plato

by Scott, Cyril

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London: The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd., 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. X, 245 Pp. First Printing. Blue Cloth, Gilt, With Blindstamped Border On Front Cover. Lightly Used, Pinpoint Fray At Each Of Two Lower Tips, But Spine Frayed Across Top Down To Edge Of Page Block, 1/2" Fray Along Top Spine Edges And Bottom Rear Spine Edge, Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks, Very Light Foxing To Endpapers, Title Page, And To Edges Of The Page Block. Quite Scarce In The Trade.
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The Sorcerer: An Original Modern Comic Opera

The Sorcerer: An Original Modern Comic Opera

by W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan

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137 pp. Vocal score, a slight tilt to spine, light wear to wraps, else fine. Quarto, 8.5 x 11 in. "New Edition." An original modern comic opera in two acts, words by W. S. Gilbert, music by Arthur Sullivan. G&S's third production. Based on a story, The Elixir of Love, that Gilbert published in 1876 in The Graphic.
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Whitney's Rapid Method for the Piano-Forte: Foreign Fingering Edition

Whitney's Rapid Method for the Piano-Forte: Foreign Fingering Edition

by W. W. Whitney

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D. W. Crist, Alliance, OH, 1902. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 182 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Heavy shelfwear to the cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 - 3 pounds. Category: Music; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001390. . Additional shipping charges may apply.
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OH BOYS, CARRY ME LONG:; A Plantation Melody. Written & Composed by Stephen C. Foster

OH BOYS, CARRY ME LONG:; A Plantation Melody. Written & Composed by Stephen C. Foster

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NY: Firth, Pond, 1851. 20th Edition. Decorative Wraps. Very Good. 6pp; embellished cover title; spine reinforced. Contains words and music to four verses and a chorus. 13" x 10.25" In part: "Oh! carry me 'long; Der's no more trouble for me: I's gwine to roam In a happy home Where all de niggas am free...." First published in 1851.
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