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Unsung Americans Sung
by HANDY, W.C., editor
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1946
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$800.00
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(New York: Handy Music Company, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second edition. Quarto. 236pp., frontispiece. Dedication by George S. Schuyler. Printed glossy boards (the first edition had printed mat paper covered boards). Some modest rubbing on the boards, very good or better in rubbed, very good dust jacket. A collection of hymns and songs by and about African-Americans,… Read more about this item Item Price
$800.00
La Traviata
by VERDI, Giuseppe. Maria Piave, libretto by. Mary McCarthy, story adaptation by
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- Used - Fine
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- 1983
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- Softcover
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- 9780316568432
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$20.00
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Introduction by Gary Schmidgall. Trade paperback. 202pp. Illustrated from both color and black-and-white photographs. Light offsetting on inside wrapper and front fly, else fine. Issued as part of The Metropolitan Opera Classic Library. Item Price
$20.00
Music By Philip Glass
by GLASS, Philip
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Published
- 1987
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780060158231
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 222pp. Edited with supplemental material by Robert T. Jones. Illustrated from both black-and-white and color photographs of theater scenes, black-and-white plates. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Autobiography of a famous American composer. Item Price
$30.00
Tarantula
by DYLAN, Bob
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1971
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$150.00
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First trade edition (preceded by several piracies). Fine in very good dust jacket with some light rubbing, short tears, and very shallow nicking at the crown. Item Price
$150.00
Photograph of W. H. Zachery of the Zachery School of Music
by (ZACHERY, W.H.)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Unbound
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$225.00
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Unbound. Near Fine. Sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph. 5.5" x 8". Image depicts Zachery seated at an upright piano. Identified in ink on verso, and also identified from a portrait on a calendar mounted on the wall behind him. Circa 1960. Professor Zachary, from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, lived in "a part of the well-educated black community which centered around… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
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Adrian Henri's Talking After Christmas Blues (Contemporary Poetry Series No 6)
by HENRI, Adrian. Music by Wallace Southam
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1969
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$75.00
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(London: Turret Books, 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. Limited edition. Quarto. 8pp. Sewn, blue illustrated wrappers. Page edges lightly sunned, light crease on wrappers, else near fine. This is number 41 out of 100 copies Signed by both Henri and Southam. Item Price
$75.00
![[Offprint]: Folk-Songs of the American Negro](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/922/061/1601061922.0.m.jpg)
[Offprint]: Folk-Songs of the American Negro
by SMITH, Joseph Hutchinson
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1924
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$500.00
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Sewanee, Tennessee: Reprinted from The Sewanee Review, 1924. Softcover. Near Fine. First separate edition, an offprint from the April, 1924 *Sewanee Review*. Tall octavo. 21pp. Original stapled printed light brown wrappers. Ink note top of front wrap: "Compliments of Mr. Smith". Mostly unopened, near fine copy. *Work* p.439 records only the periodical appearance; Not in the *Catalogue of… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings. The State of Music, Virgil Thomson, American Music Since 1910, Music with Words, Other Writings (The Library of America, 277)
by THOMSON, Virgil
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Published
- 2016
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- Hardcover
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- 9781598534672
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$30.00
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(New York): Library of America, 2016. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Edited by Tim Page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Item Price
$30.00
Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles, 1940-194. The Musical Scene, The Art of Judging Music, Music Right and Left, Music Reviewed 1940-1954, Other Writings (The Library of America, 258)
by THOMSON, Virgil
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Published
- 2014
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781598533095
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$45.00
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(New York): Library of America, 2014. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Edited by Tim Page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Item Price
$45.00
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
by PARRISH, Lydia
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1942
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$350.00
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New York: Creative Age, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. 256pp. Introduction by Olin Downes. Music transcribed by Creighton Churchill and Robert MacGimsey. Illustrated from photographs of the residents of the Georgia Sea Islands. Cloth with pictorial label. Light rubbing on the boards, a very near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. A lovely book, compiled by… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
![[Sheet music]: Put Me In My Little Cell: Song from the Musical Farce Sergeant Brue](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/492/794/1600794492.0.m.jpg)
[Sheet music]: Put Me In My Little Cell: Song from the Musical Farce Sergeant Brue
by WODEHOUSE, G. E. [P. G.], words by, and Frederick Rosse, music by
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1905
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$175.00
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London: Hopwood & Crew, 1905. Softcover. Good. First edition thus. Folio. Two nested bifoliums with a single sheet insert making ten pages. Outer bifolium separated at the fold and lacking the rear cover (but the music remains complete), inner bifolium mostly separated along the fold, owner signature, music shop stamp, and rubber name stamp on the front cover,… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
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Lohengrin et Tannhauer de Richard Wagner
by LISZT, Franz
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1851
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$2,750.00
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Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Thin octavo. 185, [1] errata pp. Text in French. Contemporary quarter cloth and patterned paper over boards with paper label on spine. Folded sheet of music tipped-in at rear. Boards well-rubbed, a few marginal light pencil notes in text, some modest foxing throughout, but a pleasing very good copy of… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,750.00
Panorama de la musica Afroamericana
by ORTIZ ODERIGO, Nestor R.
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- Used - Good
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- 1944
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$125.00
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Buenos Aires: Editorial Claridad, 1944. Softcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. 298, [5]pp. Inserted portrait plates of Black musicians. Printed paper wrappers. Owner name written on front wrap, stamp of a previous owner in text, chipping at the edge of the wrappers, pages quite toned but stable, good or better. Item Price
$125.00
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The Singing Campaign for Ten Thousand Pounds; or, The Jubilee Singers in Great Britain
by PIKE, Rev. Gustavus D.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1874
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$300.00
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1874. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 202, [1]pp. Frontispiece engraving. Blue cloth decorated and titled in gilt. Tiny tears at the crown, small scuff on the front pastedown, else a nice, near fine copy. Item Price
$300.00
A Bibliography of the Musical Works Published by the Firm of John Walsh during the Years 1721-1766
by SMITH, William C. and Charles Humphries
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- Used - Fine
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$35.00
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London: Bibliographical Society, 1968. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 351, [1]pp. Blue cloth gilt. Label of Goodspeed's Book Shop Reference Library on the front pastedown, else fine. A bright and fresh copy. Item Price
$35.00
![[Sheet music]: Juba: Dance from the Suite](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/960/342/1599342960.0.m.jpg)
[Sheet music]: Juba: Dance from the Suite "In the Bottoms" (Original Edition for Piano)
by DETT, R. Nathaniel
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1941
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$30.00
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Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co, 1941. Softcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Toning and rubbing to the exterior, some light edgewear, else near fine. An instrumental piece for piano. Plate imprint, "C.F.S.-Co. 1465 e-5. Item Price
$30.00
Three Choruses: 1. The Hawk in the Rain 2. Sirens 3. All We
by WOOD, Hugh (Ted Hughes, James Joyce, Edwin Muir)
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- Used - Fine
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- 1967
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$150.00
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(London): Universal Edition, 1967. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. Prints musical settings by Hugh Woods, for three separate chorus: *The Hawk in the Rain* by Ted Hughes; *Sirens* by James Joyce (from *Ulysses*), and *All We* by Edwin Muir. Item Price
$150.00
On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs
by SCARBOROUGH, Dorothy. Assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1925
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$275.00
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tear on page [3]-4, faint shelf number on the spine, else near fine lacking the uncommon dust jacket. The Texas-born Scarborough was a musicologist and anthropologist, educated at Baylor, the University of Chicago, and Columbia, where she received a Ph.D. She published *The Wind*, a classic feminist novel,… Read more about this item Item Price
$275.00
Disciplines of the Spirit
by THURMAN, Howard
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Published
- 1963
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$750.00
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Reprint. Octavo. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a tiny nick. Signed by the author. Thurman was a classmate and friend of Martin Luther King's father at Morehouse College, and Thurman served as a spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
![[Sheet music]: Stormy Weather: Keeps Rainin' All The Time (Cotton Club Parade)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/314/303/1598303314.0.m.jpg)
[Sheet music]: Stormy Weather: Keeps Rainin' All The Time (Cotton Club Parade)
by KOEHLER, Ted, words by, and Harold Arlen, music by
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1933
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Mills Music, 1933. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Owner name stamp repeated four times on the front cover, rubbing to the exterior with a small abrasion on the front cover, and light edgewear, still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano, with… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
