New York: Garden City Publishing, c. 1937. later. HB. Red cloth, black lettering on spine, 8vo., 359 pp. including index. "A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures, and tone-poems from Beethoven to Debussy". No marks in book, binding solid, top edge of text block red, slight edge wear. In price-clipped dust jacket that shows shelf wear, chipping, lettering on spine faded. Reprint of the original edition of 1907. Book condition VG in Good+ DJ.

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Bookseller: Parker's Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BG3545
Title: Stories of Symphonic Music
Author: Gilman, Lawrence
Format/Binding: HB
Book Condition: Used
Edition: later
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Publishing
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: c. 1937
Bookseller catalogs: Music;

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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...