EMPRESS MARIE THERESE AND MUSIC AT THE VIENNESE COURT, 1792-1807 by Rice, John A - 2003

Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Pubns Inc, 1992. SIGNED first edition. Trade softcover. Published Iola, Wisconsin: Krause, 1992, first printing. 8vo. wrappers. 616pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Inscribed by WCBS FM101 radio host Don K. Reed, with his inscribed 5x7 promo photo laid in, plus laid in June 24, 2000 DooWop concert reunion program, East rutherford, NJ, with 10 signatures of the artists: The Penguins, The Angels, Who's Johnny, Kenny Vance & the Planotones, John Kuse & the Excellents and producer Richard Nader. All fine. Signed. 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

Augsburg: Johann Jakob Lotter und Sohn, 1818. Very Good. Organ bass and violone part only. 5, [1] p.: music; 31 cm. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Publication information from library records. A few pencilled notations. Contents: Nro. 1. Zum Staffelgebet und Eingang der heiligen Messe -- Nro. 2. Zum Gloria -- Nro. 3. Nach der Epistel und zum Evangelium -- Nro. 4. Zum Credo -- Nro. 5. Zum Opfer des Brodes und Weines -- Nro. 6. Zum Sanktus und Kanon der heiligen Messe -- Nro. 7. Nach der heiligen Wandlung -- Nro. 8. Zum Genusse des Leibes und Blutes Jesu -- Nro. 9. Zum Schlusse der heiligen Messe. In Very Good Condition: disbound; 1st and 2nd leaves (conjugate) are solid; 3rd leaf remains only partially glued to 2nd leaf; soiling, primarily in lower corners; no tears or chipping.

As new hardcover, missing CD. 1st edition, rare 3000 copies. excellent profusely and beautifully illustrated book onthe history of Greek musical folk instruments, from the Fivos Anoyanakis Collection. A wonderful book.

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

Berkeley: Undermine Press, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 60pp, stapled wrappers. The scarce 1967 rock and roll issue of this underground poetry magazine from Berkeley. Includes Charles Bukowski, Fugs lyrics and an essay on rock by Tuli Kupferberg, an early poem entitled The Grateful Dead by Ron Silliman, plus an ad for The Mojo Navigator R&R News and other period content. A bit of cover soil, no markings.

Sainte-Croix, France: Les Editions Du Cochet SA. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. 219 pages: 9 x 11.25 in.: 3.8: KB#006655: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Dustjacket has small scuff mark on back near bottom edge. Content Chapters include: The Music Box Craftsmen At Home * Animates Music Boxes And Singing Birds * Creation And Restoration Of Automata * Treasures From The Sainte-Croix Collections. "Sainte-Croix, small town up in the Jura mountains of the Canton of Vaud, lies at an altitude about 1000 metres, close to the French border. For over one and a half centuries, it has perpetuated the traditional manufacture of music boxes, in spite of fashions and crises. In 1973, attracted by the know-how of the inhabitants of this area, a creator and restorer of automata came to settle in Bullet, a village in the vicinity of Sainte-Croix. Thanks to him and to one of his pupils, the land of music boxes has also… Read More

[Poland] Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1953, hardcover. Beautifully made book of selected 16th and early 17th century Polish music, including facsimiles of the original manuscripts and woodcuts, plus nice page decorations. -- Text in POLISH. Errata sheet tipped in. -- Hardcover, 10.5x13 inches. Condition: near fine (spine cloth foxed, else really nice) with bright, very good minus dust jacket (edgeworn).

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984, hardcover, 208 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Signed, inscribed, and dated 24/May/84 by the Author on the title page, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bump to head of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight bump to head of spine. The third volume of autobiography by the popular jazz singer, screenwriter, pop music, film, and TV critic deals with his early formative years in Liverpool. Mapped endpapers show Melly's neighborhood in Liverpool circa 1930. ISBN 9780297782773

273 pp. Vocal score. Wraps, grey covers with ochre print, no title on spine, quarto, 12 x 9 in. Kurt Weill. Street Scene: An American Opera. (Based on Elmer Rice's play.) Music by Kurt Weill, Book by Elmer Rice, Lyrics by Langston Hughes. New York, N.Y., RKO Building – Rockefeller Center: Chappell & Co., Inc., c.1948. Plate C-1490. Piano score edited by William Tarrasch. Instrumental cues carefully noted throughout.

Garden City NY, Doubleday and Company, 1959, hardcover, 261 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, small light scuffs, slight wear to flap folds, spot of dampstain to heel of spine, signs of archival tape reinforcement to head of spine, closed tears to bottom of flaps, displays nicely in new Brodart sleeve. An ebullient memoir from the flamboyant musician, composer, and Academy Award winner, filled with personal stories and delightful anecdotes of the great figures in Russian, European, and American music and film. Illustrated with 16 black-&-white plates. Index appended.