Violins & Violinists

London: Rockliff 1950. 8vo. xvi,223 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust wrapper. Jacket slightly chipped & edgeworn. Cloth clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. With 130 half-tone illustrations and ten line drawings. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1950.

London: Barrie & Rockliff, The Cresset Press, 1969. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Octavo; Second edition, revised and enlarged; G+/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, red with white print; DJ has small tears at spine ends and flap corners, light edgewear, plastic film is peeling, price-clipped; Boards in black cloth with gold print, slight wear to spine caps… Read more about this item

Rockliff, 1955. Hardcover. Good. hardcover in dust jacket, minor wear, light chipping to jacket, inscribed to previous owner on front free endpaper, corner clipped from jacket, binding tight, pages lightly tanning, a nice copy!

London: Rockcliff. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Book is in excellent condition. "How the violin came into existence, how master craftsmen brought it to perfection, and how the great artists achieved everlasting fame with the help of this instrument . . , " is all told in this book. ; B&W Illustrations… Read more about this item

Rockliff, 1955. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 223 pages, illustrated. With a chapter on English Violin Makers by E.W. Lavender. Translated by Egon Larsen. Ex-university library book, some wear to the covers, split spine and cracked hinge; the pages are toned with age. Overall a reading copy of an old music book. Quantity Available: 1.… Read more about this item

Rockliff, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1951. Second Impression. 223 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Contains black and white plates. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear… Read more about this item

NY: Praeger, 1969. First American edn. 8vo, pp. xv, 247. Index. Translated by Egon Larsen with Bruno Raikin. Illustrated. A VG tight copy in price-clipped and somewhat soiled dj. Fragar traces the history of the violin and its makers.

London, Barrie and Rockliff / The Cresset Press, 1950. 8vo; pp. xvi, 223; numerous b/w plates, index, original cloth, damaged dustjacket, price clipped, previous onwer's name to front free endpaper, a good copy. Translated by Egon Larson with Bruno Raikin.

London: Rockliff. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Good Dust-Jacket that has a few small closed tears and nicks to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and with No previous names or inscriptions present.A comprehensive history and complete with some 130 black and white… Read more about this item

New York/ Washington: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. 1st Edition thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/Fair. Indexed. Tight, solid. No names, clean text. Gold-stamped black bds. Acceptable dj w/ large chip base spine. Glued in: note about fake photo-frontispiece of Paganini. 1st pub. in 1950, this is revised & enlarged edition. Trans. by Igon Larsen w/ Bruno Raikin. W/ chapter… Read more about this item

New York: Praeger Publishers. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Franz Farga (1973 - 1950) was born in Bohemia and was a well-known author who settled in Vienna in the 1920's; he devoted most of his life to the study of music theory and history. In this uncommon book he covers the … Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. 5.5 x 9 hard cover book. Gold lettering on the black spine with a plain black cover. 247 pages. Ex-library with usual markings. Cover and spine edgewear.. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated.

Rockliff, 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. ex-library copy, with library binding. shelf wear on the boards. foxing and marks. annotations in text. several stamps. the book is missing 18 illustrations. sound binding. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

The Macmillan Company. 1950. Hardcover. UsedGood. Hardcover; with a chapter on English violin-makers by E.W. Lavender; transl ated by Egon Larsen; fading, light scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; fo rmer owner's name written on front endpaper, and his address label on title page; fading to pages; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Du st jacket shows… Read more about this item

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

UsedGood. 1969 hardcover edition. Inscribing/a bookplate inside boards & fyleaf pages.\r\n\r\nNoticeable signs of wear/scuffs/tanning on/inner dust jacket & lower/upper bind but book is in good condition. Text is mostly clean & readable.

London: Rockliff, 1950. B/w plates. Only front panel of d/w present, considerably taped. Book OK except sl. tape mks eps, some foxing edges & eps, and book token pasted to ffep. Sl. loose. First Edition. Cloth. Good Plus/Poor.

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Paperback / softback. New.