Music from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: Edinburgh Fraternity, no date (ca. 1909). Limited edition, one of 1000 sets, complete in six octavo volumes (8.25" x 5.75"), variously paginated, profusely illustrated including frontis in color in each volume. Publisher's maroon cloth with printed paper labels on the spines. Bindings very slightly soiled, shallow loss & fraying at the top of the spine on volume six, spine… Read more about this item

Bethesda, Maryland: Jake Einstein / WHFS FM, (1977). Second printing. Oblong octavo (5.75" x 8.5"), 95 pages, illustrated. Publisher's pictorial stapled light card covers, design by Phil Nicholson. Stress at one staple (still secure), moderately rubbed & a bit sunned along the spine, brief edge wear including a small diagonal loss at lower corner of the front cover, a good or… Read more about this item

[Paris]: Chez "Eve"/ Ateliers M. A. D., no date (1938 ?). First edition. Oblong octavo (7.25" x 8.5"), 12 unnumbered pages, with illustrations throughout from photographs often featuring "les Jolies Filles d'Eve" who generally pose sans attire. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps, with whimisical cover illustration by Auguste Liquois. Slight edge wear, lightly foxed, small loss in the lower margin of… Read more about this item

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1930. First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 473 & [1] pages, illustrated, the frontispiece by Keith Mackaye & linoleum cuts by Ina Annett. Publisher's gilt-lettered light brown cloth, with a pictorial device depicting a team of horses & a man plowing a field. Margins sunned, base of the spine with shallow loss, corners bumped, internal… Read more about this item

London: Kegan Paul,Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75") viii & 333 pages, indexed. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Slight wear at spine extremities & corners, foxing/ offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine. Sydney Grew & wife Eve also wrote a book on Bach which was a title in the Master Musicians… Read more about this item

[Nashville Tennessee: Radio station WSM], no date (ca. 1942). First edition. Oblong octavo (8.5" x 5.25"), 48 pages, with illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps opening from the top. Moderately toned & lightly soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good or better. The introduction by Albert E. Gibson, who was Promotion Manager for Radio Station WSM, provides a brief biography… Read more about this item

Volume 1. The Hillbilly and Western Scrap Book, Over 100 Stars, Personal Autographs [in facsimile], Caricatures, Cartoons, Over 125 Pictures, 45 Biographies. With: Volume 2. The Hillbilly and Western Scrapbook, Photographs, Biographies, Autographs. Over 200 Stars of Radio, Television, Stage and Screen. (cover titles). Cincinnati, Ohio: Scrapbook Publishers/ Jordan O. Zimmerman (copyright), 1949 & 1950. First editions Oblong quartos (8.5" x 11"),… Read more about this item

New York: Wm. A. Pond, (1864). First edition. Small oblong quarto (6.75" x 10"), 79 & [1] pages. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps. Small losses at the spine, wraps soiled, modest edge wear, previous owner's signature in ink at the left side of the front cover (possibly A.H. Douglas who sold musical instruments in New Jersey), occasional foxing, last leaf with 1.25… Read more about this item

[Orangeburg, South Carolina]: unpublished, September, 1950 - June, 1956. Quarto (10.5" x 8.25"), 154 pages recorded in different hands & inks in "Standard Blank Book No. 21." Binding a bit rubbed & soiled, otherwise very good & internally about fine. A voluminous account of this auspicious group providing minutes, membership rolls, summaries of educational presentations, and often descriptions of performances & events.… Read more about this item

Cavendish, Vermont: Baptist Church, 1885. Original broadside/ handbill, octavo (9.25" x 6") printed in black ink on light paper. This copy signed faintly in ink at the upper margin by Hudson: "Please admit Mr. & Mrs. [?] Ward, Complimentary, Mrs. H.B. Hudson." Old folds, edge wear including nicks & short tears, signature faded, otherwise Good. Although from Brooklyn, Mrs. Hudson apparently spent… Read more about this item

No place [Havana ?]: Revista Musical Cubana, 1952. Broadside Handbill, octavo (8.75" x 5.5"), 1 pp., with separate publicity photo of Santos (5.25" 3.5"), rubber-stamoed on the verso apparently relative to his later tour of Venezuala. Broadside with small losses at the corners affecting one letter, old folds, toned, otherwise good or better. Photo corner creased, some loss of emulsion in… Read more about this item

Union, South Carolina: Federation of South Carolina Music Clubs, (1948). Printed paper wraps. Union, South Carolina: Federation of South Carolina Music Clubs, (1948). First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), 22 pages. Original printed, stapled paper wraps. OCLC locates two copies as of 6/3/2023. Soft vertical crease throughout, lightly soiled, otherwise very good. "As South Carolina grew, so grew her music." It wasn't… Read more about this item

New York: Royal Publications, Inc., Volume 6, number 6, January, 1960. 4to (11" x 8.25"), 82 pp. Pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Lightly soiled, modest edge wear including tiny tears & a small loss at the base of the spine, toned, faintly musty, otherwise very good. This issue features a lengthy illustrated profile of Miles Davis by Harry Chillum entitled "The… Read more about this item

New York: Richard Ellington, 1959. Second edition. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75"), 36 pp., illustrated by Trina Castillo, Lee Shaw, & Pat Ellington. Pictorial, stapled, stiff paper wraps. Wraps moderately toned & soiled (cup stain on the upper), brief edge wear, about very good. Satiric but poignant folksongs collected by Dick Ellington, who was a member of the Industrial Workers of… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948, First Edition 8vo, 228 pp. Publisher's cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered & decorated in blue on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf wear, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket, lightly soiled, with brief edge wear "This is the blues story of Dupree, a nice guy, a… Read more about this item

Honolulu, Hawaii: Hardy Marks Publications, (1988). Reprint. 4to, 95, [1] pp illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Pictorial stiff paper wraps Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, otherwise very good Includes a chapter on "Punk Rock Tattooing"

London, Paris, Berlin, & Philadelphia: Societe Universelle Lyrique, (1899). "Limited Edition De Luxe made for the Dominion of Canada." Complete in five elephant folio volumes (17" x 135"), 514, & xvi pages (continuously paginated), frontis bust portrait from sculpture of Verdi in volume 1 plus 50 plates throughout (26 photogravure, some tinted; 24 in color which are tipped in) &… Read more about this item