Music from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

The Bronx: Bronx Museum of Art, 2001. First edition. 23.8 x 25 cm. 84 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Published to accompany the traveling exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Walker Art Center, and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. The artists included were: Edgar Arceneaux, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bertocchi, Sanford Biggers, Max King Cap,… Read more about this item

Göttingen: Steidl / Pace/Macgill, 2003. 11 x 14 inches. 96 pages. Oblong format hardcover with DVD, in slipcase.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. A bright, sharp copy with extremities just touched. 8vo. 267 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author, photographic plates. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Miss Carolyn Quintin with the my [sic] compliments. M. Steinert. New Haven, Conn, Nov… Read more about this item

[New York]: [Irving Berlin, Inc.], 1938. Covers detached, spine partly perished, covers dry [really an autograph item needing rebinding]. 4to (11 3/4 x 9 inches; 29.7 x 23 cm). 180 pages. Publisher's flexible faux leather. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the composer on the front free endpaper: "To Irving Lesser(?) With best wishes and pleasant memories of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Boards a trifle faded, small bump at front bottom edge; jacket a little soiled and frayed. Small 8vo. Original pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first binding with figured endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Huneker on the dedication page: "This book of musical jollies is for the Weils… Read more about this item

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 12mo, integral blank leaf, in French. A charming social note: "I have had no news of you since the immediate reply I made to your letter... Did you not receive that reply? I told you as plainly as possible, but I asked you, at the same time, to tell me the probable… Read more about this item

Paris: Three Mountains, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight crease along spine, but a fine copy. Small 8vo. Original printed red wrappers, untrimmed, tissue overlay; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition, one of 400 ordinary copies, of an edition of 440. Inscribed in the year of publication by the American composer (and subject of Pound's book)… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket that is lightly toned and has a few small areas of wear. 8.5 x 6 inches. 256 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Inscribed for Mark Stewart by Henry Pleasants on front free endpaper. With advance slip laid in.

Offenbach: Johann André; London: J. J. Ewer; Vienna: F. Glöggl; Leipzig: B. Hermann, 1850. Some light browning and offsetting, wear to boards. Folio (12.5 x 10 inches). Title-page, index, 129 lithographed pages music, catalogue number 6749; 4-page advertisement at end. 19th-century German marbled boards, paper backstrip (partly perished), cloth corners.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine with light fading and a few small losses at the ends. 8vo. 84 pages. 62 black-and-white plates. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Washington Irving Auditorium, 1983. Wrappers toned. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 20 pages, mimeographed. Stapled in wrappers. First edition.

New York: Quill, 1985. A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear to the wrappers. 10 x 7 inches. 143 pages. Original printed wrappers. Includes profiles of King Sunny Adé, Fela Kuti, Prince Nico Mbarga, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, Franco, Orchestra Jazira, and many others.

New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1925. A very good copy, with a few stains and light wear to binding. 10 x 7 inches. 43 pages. Original blue cloth. "Sing, therefore, as often as may be and as tunefully as you can, these songs of Barnard, new and old, and may they give you joy! (Virginia C.… Read more about this item

Hollywood, CA: Capitol Records, 1992. A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear to jacket. Oblang 4to. 219 pages. Color photgraphs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, a limited edition for promotional use only, not for sale.

Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1904. A very good, if slightly shaken, copy, spine label worn, and with some wear at corners, a few short marginal tears and occasional light handling creases. Small folio (305 x 228 mm). Black-and-white portrait of Royal de Forest Hawley, and 36 mounted plates, of which most in color; printed tissue guards preserved. Original… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. 8vo. xviii, 222 pp. Profusely illustrated. Original quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in a fresh and bright jacket. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the half-title: "For Bob with thanks Philip." A review copy, with the publisher's slip and errata slip laid in. Includes a catalogue of the composer's compositions… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Hoffmannsche Buchdruckerei Felix Kraus, 1953. 4to. xxii, 361 pp. In German. Portrait frontispiece, 21 facsimile plates of musical manuscripts, some folding. Original parchment-backed boards, lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges gilt. A near-fine copy, rear hinge tender. FIRST EDITION. The extensive catalogue of the important collection of musical manuscripts, letters, and documents formed by Louis Koch.

Milan, Rome, etc.: G. Ricordi & Co, 1893. 4to (267 x 203 mm; 10½ x 8 inches). 471 pages. Full-page portrait of Verdi. Original gilt-lettered and -ruled green cloth. A fine copy with only slightest of wear at the ends of the spine. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Published the same year as the first edition in Italian. Falstaff is… Read more about this item

New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Tall 8vo. 288pp. Black-and-white illustrations. Original cloth; pictorial jacket. A very good copy in slightly worn jacket that has several chips and closed tears at top, the rear panel somewhat toned. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Thomson in 1986 on a separate sheet pasted to the front free endpaper: "For Max… Read more about this item

Brooklyn: Grant Brower, 1894. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 24 pp. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Somewhat age-darkened, a few chips at edges of wrappers. Revised edition, after the first of 1891. Exercises, scale studies, arpeggios or harp chords, harmonics, slides, double fingering, velocity studies, barre, a duet for two banjos, ending with Brower's composition "Kingston Galop." Scarce. Not… Read more about this item