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New York:: Schirmer Books / Macmillan,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of light discoloration to outer edges of back of textblock.). First printing. A book which chronicles the life and Prohibition-era times of this legendary songwriter and whose musicals pioneered a distinctive African-American musical theater on Broadway, but… Read more about this item

West Point, NY:: Egner & Mayer,, 1911.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in beige cloth with dark brown illustration on front cover, gilt lettering (some minor wear to covers, few spots, toning to pages). First printing. Uncommon first edition of this collection of military music edited by Egner, bandmaster U.S.M.A. and Mayer, organist and choirmaster, U.S.M.A.… Read more about this item

New York:: Exposition Press,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good dust jacket (foxing to endpapers, several chips to the edges and fold of front flap) . First printing. A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of… Read more about this item

New York:: Anchor Books / Doubleday,, (1994). Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback original, 3rd printing. A thoughtful work of musicology which includes profiles of all the important performers through 1994 as well as essays on the urban culture that generated Hip-Hop. Illustrated with photographs, and photo-collages by Jeremy Dawson at the beginning of each… Read more about this item

Tacoma, WA:: Guild of American Luthiers, , (2002). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Based on a series of 5 lectures followed by 18 practicums, first presented at an annual seminar by Lundberg in Erlangen, Germany beginning in 1978. From the dust jacket: "This remarkable book represents a 15 year collaboration between… Read more about this item

Woodstock, NY:: Overlook Press,, (1980). Hardcover -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). 2nd printing. A comprehensive and thoroughly researched account not just of the instruments of that the early Middle Ages, through the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and the Renaissance, but also of changes in the theory of music, its notation and of the musicians… Read more about this item

New York:: Exposition Press,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (small chips to the dj) . First printing. A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers.… Read more about this item

New York:: International Publishers,, (1965). First edition -. Good overall (previous owner's name, that of poet Elizabeth Harrod, on front line. Paperback original - first printing. The author's first book, a study of folk songs concentrating on the freedom songs arising from the Civil Rights battles in the South and topical songs from folksingers and composers in… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1985.. First edition -. Fair condition only (some crinkling from dampness to the outer margin of the first few pages, light creasing to the front cover.).. First printing, a trade paperback original. The definitive biography of this influential Jamaican musician based on interviews with those close to Marley and with Marley himself, including… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor:: University of Michigan Press,, 1941.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in tan cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (some toning to the pages), no dust jacket. . First printing. Collects many ballads, arranged topically - from the shantyman's life to moniker songs, French Canadian songs, bunkhouse ballads, Paul Bunyan songs and more. Illustrated… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor:: University of Michigan Press,, 1941.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in tan cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (some toning to the pages), no dust jacket. . First printing. Collects many ballads, arranged topically - from the shantyman's life to moniker songs, French Canadian songs, bunkhouse ballads, Paul Bunyan songs and more. Illustrated… Read more about this item

New York:: Putnam,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which captures "the turbulent world of the psychedelic 1960s, as a cofounder of The Doors describes the origins of the legendary rock group and their music, details their nihilistic lifestyle, and offers insight into the life and times of rock… Read more about this item

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press,, (1991). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new).. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. An ethnomusicological study of the black 'spiritual entertainment' tradition in music, this is based on field recordings and interviews with dozens of local New York singers to tell the story of sacred… Read more about this item

New York:: Citadel,, (1948). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a fair only dust jacket with several chips, overall edgewear.. First edition. A study of the place of jazz in world music - it's history from early blues, from New Orleans to be-bop, - and a look at the beauty of the music and the… Read more about this item

Boston:: Oliver Ditson & Company,, ca 1860.. Fair condition only - somewhat worn and very fragile condition. Title page detached but still present, binding loose, dampstaining to the lower corner and the margins of the covers and the first few and last couple of pages. . An early edition. The work for which this German nobleman… Read more about this item

New York:: William H. Morrow,, (1997). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Fifth printing. A study by this author/composer about "how music captivates us so completely and why we form such powerful connections to it.. . Jourdain draws on a variety of fields including science, psychology, and philosophy. He uses music from around the world to show… Read more about this item

Port Chilkoot, Haines, AK:: Archipelago, Chilkat Press;, (1979). First edition -. Very near fine in a beige stapled illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a large trade paperback original. Songs are arranged topically and include subjects like logging and mining, oil slicks and politics, fisheries and the sea and more. Illustrated with printed sheet music, photographs by Nancy Ratner,… Read more about this item

New York:: Schirmer Books,, (1999). First edition -. Very good (slight soiling to edges of textblock). First printing, a trade paperback original. The Library Journal calls this anthology of essays, articles, and book excerpts, "an important collection of commentary on perhaps the hardest to define of all rock groups." Includes pieces either about or by people… Read more about this item

New York:: Da Capo Press,, (2015). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Based on interviews with surviving band members and their friends and associates, this is the first definitive biography of the 1970s band Little Feat. Formed in 1969 by ex-members of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, it… Read more about this item

Bloomington:: Indiana University Press,, (1996). Near fine (lower corner slightly bumped) . 2nd printing, a trade paperback A title in Publications of the Early Music Institute series. "Luis MilAn (1536-1561) was a lutenist, singer, composer, and poet. His collection of lute tablatures, El Maestro, is the first book of instrumental music known to have been printed in Spain.… Read more about this item