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New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House [0-87000-062-4] 1970, 1st edition. (hardcover) 263pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. First edition. Orange cloth boards with black imprint to front and black title to spine. The first book to recognize comic books as a serious field of collectables. The classic history of comic books as described throught the essays of Harlan Ellison, Roy Thomas, Ted white, Don Thompson, Ron Goulart, Richard Ellington, Dick Lupoff, Bill Blackbeard, Tom Fagan, Jim Harmon, and Chris Steinbrunner. There are 16 pages of full colour reproductions of classic Golden Age comic covers, as well as B / W illustrations. Corners lightly bumped and there is a light marking to the front free endpaper; else is clean, bright and solid..

New York: McGraw-Hill 1955, 1st Edition. (Cloth) 733pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. The history of music in America - Preparation; Expansion; Fulfillment..

Toronto: The Fellowship for a Christian Social Order (F.C.S.O.) NONE [NONE] [00no date]. (Mass market paperback) 96pp. Very good. 8vo. Ivory (or buff), age-toned card wrappers, stapled. Lower spine lightly chipped. Song book first compiled for the Fellowship for a Christian Order, then published with the hope that it would also meet the needs of many oher groups. Includes scores and lyrics. Foreword by Barbara Case and Helen Freeman..

London: Oxford University Press 1942. (Cloth) 123pp. Very good in near very good dust jacket. Wrapper clipped, lightly edge worn..

Montreal: Lawrence Lande Fndtn for CDN Hist. Research / Redpath Lib., McGill U. 1966. (Mass market paperback) 17pp. Near fine. Illus. One of 500 unnumbered copies..

London: MacMillan 1972, 1st edition. (Cloth) 51pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by William A. Armstrong..

London: George Allen & Unwin 1936, 2nd impression. (Cloth) 377pp. Very good in good dust jacket. Frontispiece, 40 illus., ports. - plates. Unclipped dust jacket shows shelf / edge wear, fraying, small chips, rubs, remaining elegantly dishevelled. Translated by L. Zarine..

New York: Hill and Wang NONE [NONE] 1969. (Mass market paperback) 130+. Very good. 8vo. Jazz poetry. There is a name penned to the inside front cover; else is clean, crisp, tight and bright. American Century Series..

Toronto: Arawak Publishing House, Limited 1974, 1st edition. (hardcover) 123pp. Very good in good dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket illustrated with the author's commissioned canvas from Virgil Broodhagen on front wrapper, photograph of the author by John A. Buchan on rear wrapper. Price neatly blacked out with marker, but unclipped. Notable closed tear to the front of the dust jacket, neatly repaired with tape at verso. Internally, tight and clean. "A hard hitting, carefully constructed indictment of Western European society. The author utilizes the medium of music as a mirror with which to present some startling , disturbing and definitive statements on the status of women, and homosexuality. He shrewdly weaves a strong case against the social divisiveness of Western European music (classical music), in all cultures, and remarkably presents a new refreshing perspective of folk music, modern jazz, and calypso"...or so says the jacket flap..

Berkeley: Last Gasp NONE [NONE] 1990. (Mass market paperback) NP. Fine. 4to, stapled. $2.95 cover price. Black and white cartoon. Adults only, satirical comic. 'Cherry Poptart', Nos. 1 & 2, is the name on the first 2 books of the run; the rest of run, Nos. 3-12, are called 'Cherry'. Not first printings, as they lack $2.00 price and are, instead, marked with a $2.50 (or greater) cover price. Fine copy..

Berkeley, California: Last Gasp 1989. (Mass market paperback) NP. Fine. 4to, stapled. $2.50 cover price. Black and white cartoon. Adults only, satirical comic. 'Cherry Poptart', Nos. 1 & 2, is the name on the first 2 books of the run; the rest of run, Nos. 3-12, are called 'Cherry'. Not first printings, as they lack $2.00 price and are, instead, marked with a $2.50 (or greater) cover price. Fine copy..

Berkeley, California: Last Gasp Comics NONE [NONE] 1987. (Mass market paperback) NP. Fine. 4to, stapled. $2.95 cover price. Black and white cartoon. Adults only, satirical comic. 'Cherry Poptart', Nos. 1 & 2, is the name on the first 2 books of the run; the rest of run, Nos. 3-12, are called 'Cherry'. Not first printings, as they lack $2.00 price and are, instead, marked with a $2.50 (or greater) cover price. Fine copy..

Berkeley, California: Last Gasp A.K.A. Yentzer & Gonif NONE [NONE] 1986. (Mass market paperback) NP. Fine. 4to, stapled. $2.50 cover price. Black and white cartoon. Adults only, satirical comic. 'Cherry Poptart', Nos. 1 & 2, is the name on the first 2 books of the run; the rest of run, Nos. 3-12, are called 'Cherry'. Not first printings, as they lack $2.00 price and are, instead, marked with a $2.50 (or greater) cover price. Fine copy..

San Francisco: Last Gasp NONE [NONE] 1990. (Mass market paperback) NP. Fine. 4to, stapled. $2.95 cover price. Black and white cartoon. Adults only, satirical comic. 'Cherry Poptart', Nos. 1 & 2, is the name on the first 2 books of the run; the rest of run, Nos. 3-12, are called 'Cherry'. Not first printings, as they lack $2.00 price and are, instead, marked with a $2.50 (or greater) cover price. Fine copy..

Northampton, Ma: Tundra Publishing Ltd. NONE [NONE] 1992. (Mass market paperback) NP. Fine. 4to., stapled. $2.95 US price sticker. Black and white cartoon. Adults only..

New York: Oxford 1947. (Cloth) 165pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Price-clipped wrapper uncommonly good. Theodor Adorno had a hand in the authorship and is acknowledged in later editions..

New York Toronto: Oxford University Press NONE [NONE] 1964, 2nd edition. (hardcover) xxx, 636pp. Very good in near fine dust jacket. 12mo. Practical reference book rich with ample, but concise information not only about music, but its structure, instruments, performance, and about composers, first published in 1952. Jacket is unclipped and near fine. There has been something scratched out in pen, tiny and small, at the top of the front free endpaper, as well as the stamp of what is presumed to be the store from which this copy was sold. Otherwise, clean, solid, tight, bright; a lovely copy of an excellent resource..

Chicago: Lightner Pub.Corp. 1943, 2nd ptg. (4to, cloth) 242pp. Near fine. Illus., ports. - b / w. Minor shelf wear to head & tail. Former owner's gift inscription..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1949, ex-lib. (Cloth) 310pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrated end papers, small library stamp. Jacket shows minor wear at edges. Lesser copy with no jacket available for less. Please inquire. Her family owned the Walker Theatre in Winnipeg, the major venue for live entertainment in the province in the early part of the century. Peel(3) 7108..

Chicago: Chicago Musical College Press 1950, 1st edition. (Cloth) 400pp. Very good in fair dust jacket. Dust jacket considerably worn, chipped, with no serious loss of text or image, remaining functional in mylar. Former owner's name to pastedown..