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Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 1st UK. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 168 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light rubbing. Collection of correspondence between Pierre Boulez and John Cage. Translated and edited by Robert Samuels. Record # 951026

New York: Stein and Day, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 256 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with 16 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear and minor chipping at edges. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Scarce in hardcover. Record # 509888

London: Peter Biddulph, 1994. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 71 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Front cover has sunned spot on left, bottom corner. Slight bend to copy. Clean, tight copy with color pictures throughout. Record # 369407

San Diego, CA: H.S. Wake, 1982. 1st. Softcover. Good/None. Non-paginated. Report cover style binding. Fold out plans, diagrams, etc. throughout. Light wear and soil to plastic cover. Pages lightly soiled. Record # 369409

US: H.S. Wake, 1975. 1st. Softcover. Good/None. Non-paginated. Report cover style binding. Fold-out plans, diagrams, etc. throughout. A set of full-scale working drawings for a violin cello and the mold on which it is built, together with plans for a collapsible travel 'cello Light wear and soil to plastic cover. Pages lightly soiled. Record # 369408

New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 398 pages. From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores… Read more

London: Cassell, 2019. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 239 pages illustrated in color. Issued w/o a dust jacket. Clean, bright copy. Record # 374200

London: Ernest Benn. 11th pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 656 pages. 10,000 musical themes indexed for easy reference. Record # 374075

New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 336 pages. Despite the apparent incompatibility between Mozart’s humanitarian and cosmopolitan outlook and Nazi ideology, the Third Reich tenaciously promoted the great composer’s music to further the goals of the fascist regime. In this revelatory book, Erik Levi draws… Read more

Cleveland OH: Dayton C. Miller, 1922. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 197 pages, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. Many b&w drawings and photos, some fold-out. Light edgewear to cloth edges, mild foxing to end papers, otherwise clean. Record # 406763

Boston: Charles S. Nutter, 1892. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 208 pages. Black & white illustrations. Cloth covers show light rubbing at corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Record # 608871

Rochester: Goodenough, 1931. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. SIGNED. Hardcover, 506 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy. Record # 608828

NY: RCA Victor, 1949. Good/None. Two Records/4 Sides, Youth Series Y-345, narrated by Stering Holloway. Records have moderate wear. Features the music and story from the Disney animated production "Make Mine Music!". Inside a folding album with illustrations from the story on inside covers. Mild soil to outer covers. Record # 373734

Lark Books, 2008. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 416 pages, illustrated in color. Feast your eyes on more than 300 of today’s most creative, imaginative, and gorgeous hand-made guitars—all illustrated in full color and featuring information about the innovative artisans who created them. Meet guitar-making legends, such as C.F. Martin, Les Paul, and Leo Fender, who revolutionized the… Read more

Boulder: Shambala Publications, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Good/None. 209 pages. Softcover with light wear, scuff marks, creases to edges. Previous owner's stamp to preliminary page. Light tone to edges. Clean & unmarked text. Record # 750675

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2000. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 224 pages illustrated in color. Looks at guitars from the point of view of design, visual impressions and artistic statement. Lots of guitars starting with acoustics with different sound holes and body styles to some of the more wild styles from the 50's to today (think… Read more

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 176 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket price clipped with slight rubbing, wear, sunning to edges and spine. Internally very good. Record # 810173

Germany: PPVMedien, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 220 pages profusely illustrated in color. The story of Taylor Guitars from small San Diego company to a company producing over 70000 quality guitars a year. Showcases many rare guitars, including instruments made by Bob Taylor before the company's founding, standard production… Read more

NY: Ballantine Books , 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 368 pages illustrated in color. For thirty-five years, bestselling author and accomplished musician Jonathan Kellerman has been, as he puts it in his Introduction to this lavishly illustrated, endlessly fascinating volume, “chasing fabulous sound.” The result of that quest is a… Read more

New York: George Brazziler , 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 253 pages. Light edgewear and sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.This book offers analyses of 45 of Haydn's 60-odd string quartets with the aim of providing interpretive clues for performers. The author, an Austrian-born music critic who lived in England from 1938 until… Read more