BLADES, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, beige buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 509pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sm adhesive residue to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1970

KEYWORDS: first editions music history percussion instruments culture

WINTERNITZ, EMANUEL

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 240pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, light creasing & moderate chipping to edges, light to moderate rubbing & surface loss, light foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions music musical instruments history historic symbolism western art criticism intepretation appreciation

RUSSELL, RAYMOND & SCHOTT, HOWARD (Revised by)

REVISED EDITION, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained yellow, unpaginated prelims + 208pp + 103 plates to rear- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light rubbing & discolouration to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to apge edges & eps, occasional sl foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate tanning, chafing & foxing, moderate foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973

KEYWORDS: revised edtion music history harpsichords clavichords early keyboards instruments classical

WALLS, PETER

Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 184pp, Near Fine (sl staining/soiling to top edges of page block) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2003

KEYWORDS: music history performance entertainment

DRECKI, JACEK ROMAN

Octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiv + 186pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Quo Vadis 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand music musical history Ignacy Jan Paderewski musicians piano pianists

FRIEDWALD, WILL et al & TAYLOR, YUVAL (Ed)

Octavo, illus lgossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: A Cappella Books 2002

KEYWORDS: music jazz theory philosophy history criticism

ARMA, PAUL (Selected by) & POSTON, ELIZABETH (Arranged & Trans) & ARMA, EDMEE (Illus)

Imperial octavo, white illus heavy boards, red, blue & black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 152pp, illus, VG (light bruising & tanning to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, tidy gutter reinforcement to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & soiling/foxing, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1972

KEYWORDS: French France music culture folk songs

BELIAEV, VIKTOR M & SLOBIN, MARK (Ed & Annotated) & SLOBIN, MARK and GRETA (Trans)

Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 340pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: music history criticism soviet Russia Russian Asia

HAYWARD, PHILIP (Ed)

Octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine, xi + 188pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1992

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian popular culture music history late 20th twentieth century

BEBBINGTON, WARREN (Ed)

Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvi + 608pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: music history Australia Australian musical heritage companion performers entertainment dictionary

SHAND, JOHN & MARCH, JANE (Photos)

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: UNSW Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian music jazz history criticism musicians

NETTL, BRUNO & SEBEOK, THOMAS A (Preface)

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1960

KEYWORDS: music musical cheremis essay literature Bruno Nettl

TAYLOR, ERIC

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: music culture cultural artefacts instruments south-east Asia

THOMPSON, KENNETH

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973

KEYWORDS: music musical composers dictionaries 20th twentieth century

FRITH, SIMON

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 1981

KEYWORDS: sound recording industry rock music history criticism

HARRIS, SHELDON

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white & green lettering to spine, 775pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning & chafing/soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing with moderate soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 1989

KEYWORDS: music history blues jazz musicians singers profiles

RAYMY

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Raymy 2008

KEYWORDS: rock music musicians Raymy quests concerts fandom autobiography Tom Waits

SCOTT, MIKE

Super octavo, black heavy boards, orange lettering to spine, illus eps, 272pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to boards & edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine & edges, sm patch of label residue to front cover)

PUBLISHER: The Lilliput Press 2012

KEYWORDS: British rock stars bands The Waterboys Mike Scott autobiography autobiographies memoir music musicians

BOYD, MALCOLM (Ed) & BUTT, JOHN (Consultant Ed)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, xxv + 626pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, plate residue to ffep, light cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: classical music composers Johann Sebastian J S Bach reference history

DE BENEDICTIS, ANGELA IDA (Ed) & RIZZARDI, VENIERO (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow & white lettering to spine, x + 490pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, ex-libris plate to inside front cover, light cracking at front gutter)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2018

KEYWORDS: Luigi Nono writing interviews music musicians composers criticism interpretation