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Bramhall House, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 369 pages, plus 12 pages front matter, with indexes of titles, first lines, and explanatory material; bibliography; key to guitar chords used in the book; introduction. Decorations by William Bars. Sixty-five ballad topics are explored, some with several versions, and matched with Child ballad numbers. Piano settings and guitar chords are given for one of the versions each time, along with multiple verses. All were collected by Niles in Appalachia in the early 20th century. Imperial 8vo (8-3/4" x 11-1/4") green cloth with dark green lettering, dark green end papers have maps of Appalachia in knockout type, wear to crown/heel/corners, edges age-toned, faint foxing to fore-edge and on a few pages. No writing or marks observed. Laid in are two photographs of Niles, one being the trimmed remnant of the front panel of the DJ of this book, the other one evidently clipped from a magazine. Large book, may require shipping surcharge depending on destination.
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The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
by John Jacob Niles
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The Christmas Caroling Songbook
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Hal Leonard, 2006. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 96 pages. Melody, Words and Chords for 72 Favorite Carols and Songs. Trade paperback, wraps a bit curled, wear to corners, touch of dust soil to top edge. Pages unmarked.
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Civilisation: A Personal View
by Kenneth Clark
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Harper & Row, 1969. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 359 pages, with index. Book based on the scripts of Clark's Spring 1969 public TV series of the same title, chiefly a history of European art and culture. Illustrated with 48 color plates and 238 b&w photos (art reproductions). Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 10"), faded red cloth with faded/rubbed gilt lettering on spine, some smudges and spots to boards, cocked, light shelf wear, edges age-toned. Former prices in pencil on ffep, page-reference notes in pencil on rfep by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her marginalia in pencil observed on approximately five pages.
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The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden
by W.H. Auden
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Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 466 pages. Fourth printing. (Main image shows title page, second image - exterior.) The collection has sections "Poems" and "Songs and Other Musical Pieces", between them the prose poem "Letter to a Wound". 8vo, blue cloth much rubbed and worn at extremities including 1" tear along backstrip at crown, lettering entirely gone from black inset on spine, rough-cut fore-edge, hinges cracked, foxing to end papers, smudges on a few pages. Date November 1945 and name of former owner (later Prof.) Warner Berthoff on ffep, his underscoring and notes on ffep and approximately 80 pages.
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The Interpretation of Music
by Thurston Dart
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Harper Colophon Books, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 192 pages, with index, glossary, bibliography, suggestions for further reading, eight pages of musical examples. A survey of musical notation, style, the development of instruments and their sonorities, and many other topics related, especially, to early music and its performance. First Harper Colophon edition of book published 1954. Trade paperback, remainder mark - hole punched in front cover, wraps worn along their edges. Former owner's name written on half-title, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages.
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A Life in Words and Music
by Franziska Morris
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2017. Soft cover. Good. 182 pages. Illustrated with photos on 14 plates, some in color. Autobiography by Fran Morris, whose family (descended in part from a branch of the Mendelssohn family) left Germany as refugees from Nazism in 1938 and came to the USA via England and Switzerland. Morris attended Bennington College and became a pianist and music teacher. She wrote this memoir between 2001 and approximately 2017 (publication date not stated). Trade paperback, wraps creased, scratched, wavy; glassine outer layer torn and partially missing, repaired with clear tape. Inscribed by the author on the title page to friends.
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Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century
by Barbara K. Lewalski, Andrew J. Sabol (eds.)
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The Odyssey Press (Bobbs-Merrill), 1973. Soft cover. Good. 1330 pages plus 35 Roman-numeralled pages of front matter, with overall introduction, bibliography of general studies of English poetry in this period, intro and selected bibliography for each poet, index to titles and first lines. Included are works by Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell. Twelve illustrations include portraits and first edition facsimiles. Sixty-page section of musical settings. Trade paperback, 2-1/2" thick, shelf wear and scratches to wraps, spine sunned and creased (not split), tear to fore-edge of one page in the Notes section. Name of former owner written on half-title, interior pages unmarked.
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Monkeyshines
by Eugene Walter
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Soft cover. Good. 12 pages including front and back, stapled in pamphlet form. Evidently a concert program: "Lyrics by Eugene Walter, Music by Donald Ashwander, Fred Baldwin, Alexis Biolley & Francis Imbragulio". Performer listed after each poem (song): Phyllis Demetropoulos - soprano, Greg Riley - tenor, Teri Ann Willams - soprano, Linda Evans - alto. Most of the authors and performers are from the Gulf Coast, which suggests that the undated concert program may have been for an event in Eugene Walter's home town, Mobile, Alabama. A few smudges to the covers, staples rusted. From the library of Walter's friend Ann Evans Berthoff.
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Mozart's Librettos
by Robert Pack, Marjorie Leach (tr.)
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Meridian Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair. TWICE-BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH AND ITALIAN-ENGLISH. 480 pages, with Recommended Recordings list, synopsis of each opera. the translations are full and literal, as opposed to ones made to fit the sung line. Mass-market paperback. Condition is stated as "fair" because the spine is cracked and repair has been done with clear tape, inside and out, which cannot easily be removed. Dust soil to top edge, faint foxing to others, a bit shelf-worn. Notation about date of gift written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 10 pages in Don Giovanni; other than that pages mostly unmarked.
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Music in Western Civilization
by Paul Henry Lang
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W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1941. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1107 pages, with index and bibliography, 25 b&w illustrations (art reproductions) on plates, three maps of where composers from certain countries were active. Covers ancient Greece to the early 20th century. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), black cloth with gilt lettering in red insets all rubbed especially on spine where letters are illegible, red topstain, boards worn and scuffed, water stain to front board, edges and end papers age-toned, first 80 pages or so wavy at top as from damp. Names of three former owners written on front pastedown and first free end paper, which also has other scribbles in pencil; underscoring and/or marginalia observed on approximately 50 pages. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.
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One Hundred English Folksongs
by Cecil J. Sharp (ed.)
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Oliver Ditson, 1916. Soft cover. Good. 235 pages, with index of song titles, plus 40-page introduction and notes on each song by Sharp. The songs are given with piano accompaniment and their many verses. The songbook with sewn binding opens compfortably to be read by pianist. Soft cover 4to (9-1/2" x 12-1/2"), covers worn/soiled/age-toned with 1-1/2" chip to backstrip at bottom, edges age-toned, pages lightly so. Former library book - stamped accordingly on first free end paper, where subsequent owner's name is also written. Pencil underscoring and/or notations on a few pages.
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Peking Opera
by A.C. Scott
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ICM Artists, 1980. Soft cover. Good. 34 pages (including covers, which are numbered). Souvenir Book for 1980 North America Tour of the Peking Opera Theatre. B&w and full-page color photos. Large pamphlet (9-1/4" x 12") stapled in stiff card wraps, light shelf wear, heavier at top of fold where there is creasing and a 1" tear, rubbed along spine. Pages unmarked.
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Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
by Philip Larkin
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Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages, with index. First American printing. Essays, short memoir pieces, interviews with the poet; section of short essays on jazz. Trade paperback, scant shelf wear, crease to front cover, faint foxing to fore-edge. Marginalia on approximately five pages.
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Shaw on Music: A selection from the Music Criticism of Bernard Shaw
by Bernard Shaw, ed. Eric Bentley
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Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955. Soft cover. Very Good. 307 pages. Foreword by Bentley. Collection of "the best of Shaw's musical writing" (back cover). Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, rubbed along spine, faint foxing to top edge and inside covers. Name of former owner written on title page, pages unmarked.
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Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composers
by Ernest Newman
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Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Three volumes in one, numbered separately: 322 + 335 + 371 = 1028 pages in all. Introductory note by the author, musical extracts printed throughout the summaries. A biography of each composer is included. Vol. 1 contains Wagner's operas; Vol. 2 - Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Von eber, Ambroise Thomas; Vol. 3 - Verdi, Puccini, and four others from the 19th-20th centuries. 8vo, red material over boards with faded lettering on spine, heavy wear to crown/heel/corners, rubbed along spine, top couple of inches of backstrip reglued, front hinge cracked, soil to back board/top edge/end papers, page margins age-toned. Gift inscription on ffep, pages unmarked. Heavy book, international orders may incur extra shipping charges.
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Writing to Live: Commentaries on Literature and Music
by William H. Pritchard
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Impress, 2015. Soft cover. Near Fine. 466 pages. Essays on a variety of writers and other topics by the prolific reviewer and professor of English at Amherst. Trade paperback, slightest shelf wear, touch of dust soil to edges, handful of page reference notes written in pencil on rear free end paper. Pages bright and unmarked.
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The Young Milord: Comic Opera in Two Acts (libretto only), tr. Eugene Walter
by Ingeborg Bachmann
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B. Schott's Söhne, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. 47 pages. Comic Opera . . . "from a fable in 'The Sheik of Alexandria and his Slaves' by Wilhelm Hauff", Music by Hans Werner Henze, but this volume is the libretto only. "English Version by Eugene Walter" on label affixed to title page, covering a printed line containing a typo. Pamphlet format, 5-1/8" x 7-7/8", stapled in light-weight card wraps that are age-toned with light creases in a few places, staples rusted. Pages age-toned, unmarked.
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