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Marvelous World of Music Machines
by Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher; Kodansha
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0870112589
- ISBN 13
- 9780870112584
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Kodansha International, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. As New copy in Fine dust jacket. Stated First edition, 1976. Flawless except for sunned dust jacket at spine. 244 pages with Index and Bibliography; illustrated with approximately 300 color photographs. This is a heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Contact us prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. Translated by James Underwood. Here is a handbook of Europe's largest and most comprehensive collection of musical automata and mechanical instruments. Some 300 music boxes, clocks, orchestrions, player-pianos, performing figurines, organs, and other delightful examples of music machines, dating from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, are reproduced in full color.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Modern First Editions Boston
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001707
- Title
- Marvelous World of Music Machines
- Author
- Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher; Kodansha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870112589
- ISBN 13
- 9780870112584
- Publisher
- Kodansha International
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Mechanical musical instruments - Catalogs and collections
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Modern First Editions Boston
Biblio member since 2016
Boston, Massachusetts
About Modern First Editions Boston
Growing collection of 900 + books, mostly from 60s, 70s and 80s. Vast majority of books are first editions, many of them first printings and signed. All books are from a private collection and are being sold now for the first time.Unless noted otherwise: books are without marks, original prices are not clipped and there are no former library books.Please contact me directly for commission free sales.
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