Music Books from Select Tomes

Literary Express, Inc., New York, 1998. Hardcover with CD-ROM. Condition: near fine. No dust jacket. 72pp. Text white, clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. A compilation of the influence contributed by female jazz singers. "Over a period of six decades, the women of Jazz fought for and eventually gained the right to participate fully in the music business, based… Read more about this item

Visual Method Publishers, Detroit, Michigan, 1941. First Edition. Softcover, hole punched and held together with metal clasp. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 31 pp. Text leaves have illustrations, some colored with crayon and star stickers on many pages and on inside rear cover. Pages are otherwise clean, with no foxing or… Read more about this item

Departments of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Veterans Administration of the United States of America, New York, November, 1961. First edition. Condition: Fine. Paperback, no dust jacket. 30 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Small chip at lower front edge of cover. Light soil mark on… Read more about this item

Ginn and Company, Boston, 1906. Two volume set (First Reader and Second Reader). Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. First Reader--126 pp. Text white, clean and unmarked with no foxing. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper and penciled notation on rear free endpaper. Clean red and dark blue stamped colors on front cover have… Read more about this item

Hackleman Music Co., Indianapolis. No date found. Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. Unpaginated, but contains 261 hymns. Text clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution.

Rodeheaver-Ackley Co., Publishers, Chicago, Ill., 1911. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. N/A (illustrator). First Edition. Preface and an endorsement complete with a facsimile signature by W.A. Sunday--a/k/a Billy Sunday, the noted early 20th Century evangelist, 256 pps. Text has light tanning typical of age. Prior owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Rare first edition of this book.

John Knox Press. 1929. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. A copy that has been read, but remains in bright white and clean condition. All pages are intact. Title page has a vertical crease. No page numbers, but book contains 119 songs and index. Cover is lightly bumped on the corners and has light soiling on back cover. Binding… Read more about this item

John J. Hood, PHILADELPHIA, 1888. Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. This is not a reprint but is the original edition published [1888]. Prior owner attribution on front free-endpaper. Front hinge cracked, but intact. Cover shows wear typical of its age. 192 tightly bound pages, no writing, tearing or foxing in text.

United Brethren Publishing House, Dayton, Ohio 1893. Hard Cover, Condition: Poor. 190 pps, incomplete with front free-endpapers and first 6 pages and other random pages in first half of book are missing. Title page survived. Front spine is detached from text.

American Sunday-School Union, Philadelphia. Condition: Fair. Assumed First Edition, Circa 1840-1850. 383 pp text yellowed and foxing typical of age. (Pages 1-364 containing 529 hymns; pages 365-378 Index of First Lines and pages 379-383 Index.) Frontispiece originally contained b/w drawing of 6 children in song with 3 angels with harps hovering overhead. Bottom… Read more about this item

Biglow and Main, New York, 1867. Hardcover. Light edge, corner and surface wear but still square and securely bound. Pencil writing on front free-endpaper. The rear free endpaper is stamped "D. B. Richardson." 160pp is clean, unmarked and bright. Overall, this copy is Very Good + for its age. Bradbury was a prolific hymn writer and… Read more about this item

The Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1900. Near fine condition. Contains 379 songs, 7 doxologies, an Index of Subjects and 48 pages of "Selections from The Psalter, for Use in the Services of the Churches". Text clean, unmarked throughout. Front pastedown and front free-endpaper is slightly foxed. Excellent condition for its age.

Eaton & Mains, NY, Condition: Good. No Jacket. Spine ends & corners worn & bumped. Covers rubbed, but still readable. Former owner attribution on rear cover, front pastedown and rear pastedown (3 different names). 126 pp. yellowed, intact with light foxing. Page 61 (included) detached from spine and has horizontal tear. Title page and front endpapers… Read more about this item

Rodeheaver's Company, Chicago. Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Tabernacle Edition. First fifteen pages are photographic portraits of people associated with the Tabernacle. All 15 are signed (faux?) with that person's favorite bible quotation locator. Book contains 333 songs. 20 responsive Readings, Index and Topical Index. Pages clean, unmarked with slight foxing. Front panel also carries a… Read more about this item

Fillmore Music House, Cincinnati, Oh. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date given. Cover has some edgewear and is lightly soiled. 256pp text complete and unmarked.

Methodist Protestant Church, 1921-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Good hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked. Covers show light rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 443 pp clean with minimal markings. small tear on page 95.