Music from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

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.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. Price clipped; jacket with some light wear to extremities and a tear on the front cover; internally fine. 10 x 9 inches. 141 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original grey cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. "Portraits of fifty-five musicians most closely associated with an authentically American music and features authentic voices, vivid… Read more

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

New York: William R. Scott, 1944. Boards a bit soiled and with some wear along edges, previous owner's name written in pen on front free end paper. 8.5 x 10 inches. 96 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original printed boards. First edition.

New York: A.S. Barnes for Perpetua Books, 1961. Closed tear to lower wrapper of Louis Armstrong volume, generally a bright set with the wrappers well preserved. Eleven volumes, 8vo. Each illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout text. Original pictorial wrappers; preserved in the original publisher's shelfworn slipcase. A superb piece of 60s design, this boxed set of illustrated jazz… Read more

New York: Dial Press, 1971. A near-fine copy, the jacket spine with slightest sunning, and one short internal closed tear. 8vo. 159 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

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: William Lewis & Son, 1959. A near-fine copy, with slightest wear at extremities. 4to (278 x 215 mm). Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original simulated leather spine, brown boards, gilt-lettered. Provenance: David W. Young, owner of the "Goding" Amati. FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 877 of 3000 copies of the "Library Edition."

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

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

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.

London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). [iv], 208pp. Half-title. Contemporary English speckled calf. Rebacked, some offsetting from binding at edges of preliminaries and terminal leaves, free endpaper slightly chipped at edges, L1-2 with offset stain. Provenance: armorial bookplate from a member of the Clayton family with motto "quod sors ferit fermus." FIRST EDITION of… Read more

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

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1914. 8vo. 364pp. Frontispiece of Rabindranath Tagore, 14 plates and 2 tables. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth; printed dust jacket. A near-fine copy with slight toning to the spine, a few minor stains, and light wear. FIRST EDITION.

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

Los Angeles: Southern California Music Company, 1916. 8vo (10 x 7 inches). 62 pp. Two photographic illustrations in the introduction. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, child's pencilings on inner front and outer rear wrappers; one leaf with chips at edges. Presumed first edition. Includes instruction on how to read conventional music for the banjo, how to… Read more

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