Search Results: Music from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Routledge 2004. 8vo. xxxvii, 368 pp. Hardcover in illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Minor crinkling to jacket edge, a few pencil annotations in the margins, otherwise all in near fine condition. . Very Good. Hardcover. 2004.

London: Faber and Faber 1971. 8vo. English language. 456 pp.Red hardback with gilt lettering to spine in jacket. Minor yellowing and curl to jacket edge. Boards clean, internally clean. Black & white illustrations. 0571083951 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1971.

Nottingham: Privately printed 1949. 8vo. 67 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to front board. Slight wear to spine ends and boards slightly marked. Photographic illustrations. Printed on hand-made laid paper. Privately printed by Walter Alcock's daughter (Naomi) Judith Bateson. Typed letter signed by Judith Bateson tipped-onto the front endpaper describing the publication of the book. Inscribed on the front pastedown by Fred Alcock and dated 1949. A VG copy. . Very Good. Cloth. 1949.

New York: The Macmillan Company 1955. Large 8vo. xxxix, 625 pp. Full beige cloth with red lettering to spine and front board. Rubbing at spine and corners. Internally clean. . Very Good. Cloth. 1955.

Germany: Schirmer / Mosel 2005. Large 4to. 416 pp, illustrated in b/w, a presentation from Corbijn in silver ink on title page. Signed. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 3829601743 . Very Good. Hard Cover. 2005.

London: Faber and Faber 1964. 8vo. First Edition. English language. 309 pp. Hardback in jacket, not price clipped. Slight wear to jacket spine ends and a few marks to panels. Boards clean, internally clean. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1964.

London & New York: F. Tennyson Neely 1897. 8vo.Presentation Copy. 294 pp. Dark blue half calf over marbled boards. Spine with extra gilt to compartments, and with dark red title label. Bound by Mudie. Marbled endpapers and edges. Early bookplate to front paste-down. Inscribed by the author on title-page. Scattered foxing. Leaves darkened. Rubbing to the head of the spine. . Very Good. Half Calf. Third Edition. 1897.

Wien: Carl Gerold 1850. 8vo. 226 pp. Contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards. Ex-institutional library of Bibliothek der Musse, Riga with usual markings. Rubbing to spine and board edges. Internally clean. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Manoug Parikian, British concert violinist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Loosely inserted are three TLS by Isaiah Berlin, dated 1972-73 on 'Headington House, Oxford' letterhead, in which he thanks Parikian for the loan of the book and then apologises for not returning it in a timely manner, as the book had become buried somewhere in his library. The author, Wilhelm von Lenz, was born in Riga and studied with Liszt and Chopin in Paris. He is best known for his research on Beethoven. The final chapter in this book deals with Beethoven's violin concerto as performed in St. Petersburg by Vieuxtemps. Text in German. . Good. 1/4 Sheep. 1850.

Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing 1995. 8vo. 319 pp. Bound in half red morocco over cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. Marbled endpapers. In cloth slipcase with original front cover panel pasted down. No ownership marks. Photographic illustrations. Very clean copy in fine condition. 1851588507 . Near Fine. Half Morocco. 1995.

Cammbridge: Cambridge University Press 1922. 12mo. [x], 109 pp. Cloth spine with decorated boards, top edge black. Staining, fading and wear to edges of boards and spine. Bookplate t front pastedown and ink inscription to ffep. History of and guide to Thomas Gay's Beggar's Opera. . Very Good. Cloth Spine. 1922.

London: Printed for Jacob and Richard Tonson 1761. Small 4to. (viii), 56, 46 pp. Dark brown half calf over brown cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. Spine rubbed & gilt faded. Ink inscription to front pastedown. Lacks front endpaper. Scattered foxing. Title page trimmed and laid down. Vignette. With 46 plates of copper engraved music. Binding firm. . Good. Half Calf. 1761.

London: Faber & Faber; Faber Music Ltd 1976. Large 8vo. First Edition, review copy. xvi, 567 pp. Brown hardback in gilt lettering to spine in yellow jacket, not price clipped. Light curling to the jacket edges, slight chipping to head of jacket spine. Jacket clean, boards clean and internally clean. With small 'Review Copy' note from Faber & Faber dated 1st November 1976. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1976.

London: Allen Lane / The Penguin Press 1999. 8vo. In two volumes complete. Volume one was a revised volume, published to coincide with the first printing of volume two. Review copies with publisher's slips loosely laid in. xxiv, 648; xi, 896 pp. Hardbacks with dust jackets. Illustrations. No ownership names. Very clean copies. 9780713993851 . Near Fine. Hardback. 1999.

Vaduz: Birgit Nilsson Foundation 2018. 4to. 711 pp. Full silk in dust jacket. In blue silk wraparound case with pictorial onlay to front board. Rubbing to case. Book and jacket in fine condition. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. 9783903153929 . Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 2018.

London: Faber and Faber 1971. 8vo. 466 pp. Maroon hardcover with gilt lettering to the spine and black lettering to the front board. Some minor rubbing to the spine. Internally clean and birght and binding firm. 0571096387 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1971.

Shannon: Irish University Press 1971. 4to. 1971 reprint of the original 1935 Cuala Press edition. Unpaginated. Quarter cloth over green boards and in opaque dust wrapper. Wrapper chipped & edgeworn. Boards clean. Internally clean. Colour illustrations by Jack B. Yeats and others. . Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 1971.

American Insitute of Musicology 1967. 4to. xiii, 82 pp. Paper covers. Minor foxing and areas of yellowing to paper covers, slight wear to spine ens and crease to rear cover. Internally clean. Sheet music and lyrics for the compositions of medieval poet-composer (also known as a trouvère, or troubadour) Adam de la Halle. . Very Good. Paper Covers. 1967.

London: Boosey & Hawkes 1942 [?]. Small 4to. German language. [iii], 376 pp. Half buckram over red boards with gilt Strauss monogram to front board and red lettering to spine. All in near fine condition, clean and bright inside and out. Full orchestral score for Strauss's final opera, with a libretto by Clemens Krauss based on an idea by Stefan Zweig, and first performed at the Nationaltheater München on 28 October 1942. . Near Fine. Buckram. 1942.

London and Glasgow: Collins Clear Type Press 1968. 4to.Illustrated. (64) pp., Illustrated paper boards. Some wear to the edges of the boards otherwise clean. Internally fresh and bright. Binding firm. Illustrated throughout in colour. With plenty of songs to entertain little ones and accompanying music for guitar and piano. 0001951076 . Very Good. Decorated Boards. First UK Edition. 1968.

London: George Bell & Sons. 1880. 12mo. pp. xii., 114, 22 ads. With a couple of parish church stamps. Bound in a recent quater navy blue morocco, with cloth boards. An uncommon title. . Very Good. 1/4 Morocco. Second Edition. 1880.