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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1997, 1997. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. TextBRAND NEW. Cover/VG w/rubs to edges/surfaces & trace soiling to upper front. Critical analysis of editorial pages of newspapers and the page usually opposite it known as the op-ed page, which are governed by an entirely different philosophy from the rest of the newspaper's contents. Collection of 11 essays from members of the Washington Post Writers Group from the vantage point of the publisher, the editors, the editorial writers, the cartoonists .. A book relevant in light of the overwhelming power of the Media and concern over the Media's responsibility, or lack of. Indeed, has editorialzing crept beyond the initial two pages assigned?

Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed burnt-orange boards/NF w/light abrasion to front leading spine edge, & surfaces by front upper/lowers corners. Monograph. A study of main architectural themes of the Southwest --- confluence of Pueblo and Spanish colonial influences overlaid by that territorial forts, harsh necessities of ranch life, and Victorian ideals following the laying of the transcontinental railroad. Illustrated w/color photos, the contents are: 1, Southwest Expressions; 2, Spanish Colonial Style; 3, Territorial Style; 4, Southwest Victorians; 5, Pueblo Revival; Southwest Ranch Style; 6, Modern Design in the Southwest; and, 7, Southwest Postmodern Design. Fine copy less dust jacket.

Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, 1990. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed white boards/VG; small push to lower spine corner tip & trace edge discoloration. DJ/VG, also showing trace discoloration. NOTE: matte knife score (faulty un-boxing) through boards & dustjacket. The best of architectural and interior design, arts and crafts of Santa Fe. Text, w/color photos, in 6 parts: 1, Santa Fe Life; 2, Origins of Santa Fe Design; 3, Santa Fe Architecture; 4, Casa Santa Fe; 5, Santa Fe Arts; and, 6, Santa Fe Design Resources. Strong copy despite cut to boards and dust jacket.

New York, NY: International Music Co, 1970. Soft Cover/Music. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Yellow, stapled softcover/NF w/trace surface rubs to lower front. Price on fEP. Concerto, in A major, for flute & piano by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788) and edited by Jean-Pierre] Rampal (1922 - 2000). Originally composed for flute /string orchestra. This copy, published c. 1970, is for solo flute & piano. 23 pgs. NOTE: Master Score only; no separate insert score for flute.

Chicago, IL: Swallow Press/Ohio Univ Press, 1981. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Harold A. Nelson (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light edge wear, faint corner creasings to front, & trace discoloration. Guide, by foot and car, to some 850 historic buildings dispersed in the six counties surrounding the metropolis of Chicago. 35 walking tours augmented w/photos and maps. Author is an architect, city planner, an ardent walker, as well as author of Chicago on Foot, and Chicago's Famous Buildings.

Muchen, Germany: G. Henle Verlag, 1978. Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace edge wear to softcover. 74 pgs, text in German, English & French. The Inventions and Symphonies is a are a practice work collection of polyphonic movements for keyboard for foster skills in playing and preparation towards to composition from Johann Sebastian Bach ( ). Little pieces written orginally by Bach ( ) for his first born son, Wilhelm Friederick. This edition of Inventio is edited by Rudolf Steglich. mainly practice work for players and model instruction for composing. In this sence, the collection is a philosophy of music with examples of contrapuntal composition.

Holland: De Haske Play-Along Book, 2001. First Edition/First Thus . Paperback/with CD. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/SEALED CD. 8 J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) compositions selected for clarinet players. Accompanying CD furnishes accompaniment on the alto saxaphone, trumpet, euphonium, harpiscord/organ, and cello.40 pgs. Contents: 1, Air (from Suite in D); 2, Minuet (from Notenbuchlein fur Anna Magdalena Bach); 3, Ave Maria (Bach/Gunod, Prelude No 1, Well Tempered Clavier); 4, Arioso; 5, Chorale (Cantata 'Wachter auf, ruft uns die Stimme); 6, Bist Du Bei Mir; 7, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (version 1); and 8, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (version 2).

Leipzig, Germany: Friedrich Hosmeister, 1955. Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. White softcover/NF w/trace edge wear, light soiling to lower edges, and faint creasings to lower front corner. Tidy marginalia to title page. 60 pgs. Bach studies for viola drawn from of the cantatas, passions, masses, concerts and overtures. The Issue 1, etudes for the viola, is edited by Fritz Spindler.

San Antonio, TX: Southern Music Co, 1963. Soft Cover/Music. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Notations to pgs 2-5, else As New. Stapled softcover/ VG; sound w/light edge wear, closed tear to lower spine, and soiling to surface. PO name to fEP. 19 pages. 2, 3,

New York, NY: Edwin H. Morris Co/Hal Leonard Publishing, 1982. Reprint of 1982 . Soft Cover/Stapled. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New. Softcover/VG; strong w/edge & surface rubs, faint creasings to corner tips, coffee (?) stain to mid-front; and archival tape reinforced upper & lower spine edges. Music shop stamp to front cover verso. First published 1954; this is a 1984 reprint. Collection of 14 piano "etudes" from the 1786 collaborative work of German born Johann Christian Bach and Italian born F. Pasquale Ricci.

New York, NY: Carl Fischer, 1945. Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Very Good/None as Issued. 3-page. plus 1-page laid-in, Vintage SHEET MUSIC. Alto saxophone & Piano. SCORE: As New. LAID-IN: Eb Alto sasxophone score/GOOD w/soiling & faint creasings. SOFTCOVER; VG w/sticker removal shadow to upper front corner. Arioso (literarly, "airy"), a classical music genre, was originally a type of melodic solo vocal piece that was extended to instrumental compositions --- in this case, for the alto saxophone to the cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach's Canata No. 156, "Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe".

Boston, MA: E.C. Schirmer Music Co, 1932. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Sheet Music. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/trace soiling. 31 pages. Collection of 28 Bach chorals. songs. Selected and provided with suitable English texts by Thomas Whitney Surette (1861- 1941) of Concord, Massachusetts, founder of the Concord Summer School of Music (1915 - 1937). This is a sequel to Concord Series No. 1, A Book of 25 Chorals.

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1979. 2nd Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft Cover/Flexible. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Orville E. Bach (Author-Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Author signed, August 1985. Yellow, flexible soft cover/NF w/faint creasings to front cover & trace echoes to first few pages. Guide/handbook to hiking in the Yellowstone-Teton in a handy (designed to fit into "jeans' pockets") and sturdy format. Illustrated w/photos, the introductory sector combines that written for this volume, Hiking the Yellowstone Backcountry, with that of its companion volume, Hiking the Teton Backcountry by Paul Lawrence. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Perennial Library/Harper & Row, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/faint creasings to lower front corner. Gift dedication to fEP. Anthology of seven reminiscences of boyhood days --- all raised in America West, all authors of repute, and all looking back as octogenarians. The authors are: Dee Brown, A.B. Guthrie, Jr; David Lavender, Wright Morris, Clyde Rice, Wallace Stegner, and Frank Waters.

Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing, 2000. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to upper front edge & corner tips. Memoir of a pioneer woman. In 1907, at the turn of the century, 20-year old Harriet Fish took a train from Oakland Denver and marry assayist George Backus, a graduate from the California School of Mines. Their first home was at the Tomboy Mines (gold exhausted, shut down 1927) from where their travels will take them to British Columbia, Idaho, and Leadville, Colorado. Chronology in 4 parts: I, The San Juans; II, Britannia Beach, III, The Heart of Idaho; and IV, Leadville, City in the Clouds. Primary history resource.

New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1969. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Red linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge rubs. Acoustical basis of music. Treatise based on a course given at the Univ of Southern California. 15 chapters presented in 4 parts. Part I, The Physical & Acoustical Background, Chapt 1, The Fundamental Physical Quantities; 2, Simple Vibrating Systems; 3, Waves & Wave Progagation; 4, Complex Vibrations & Resonance; Part II, The Reception of Musical Sounds, 5, The Ear: Intensity & Loudness Levels; 6, Tone Quality; 7, Frequency & Pitch; 8, Intervals, Scales, Tuning & Temperament; Part III, The Environment of Music, 9, Auditorium & Room Acoustics; and Part IV, The Production of Musical Sounds: Musical Instruments, 10, The String Instruments; 11, The Wood Instruments & Others; 12, The Brass Instruments; 13, The Piano; 14. The Percussion Instruments; and, 15, The Electronic Production… Read More

New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1969. First Edition, 5th Printing . Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Red linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/None. Small smudge to lower text block. Acoustical basis of music. Treatise based on a course given at the Univ of Southern California. 15 chapters presented in 4 parts. Part I, The Physical & Acoustical Background, Chapt 1, The Fundamental Physical Quantities; 2, Simple Vibrating Systems; 3, Waves & Wave Progagation; 4, Complex Vibrations & Resonance; Part II, The Reception of Musical Sounds, 5, The Ear: Intensity & Loudness Levels; 6, Tone Quality; 7, Frequency & Pitch; 8, Intervals, Scales, Tuning & Temperament; Part III, The Environment of Music, 9, Auditorium & Room Acoustics; and Part IV, The Production of Musical Sounds: Musical Instruments, 10, The String Instruments; 11, The Wood Instruments & Others; 12, The Brass Instruments; 13, The Piano; 14. The Percussion Instruments; and, 15, The… Read More

New York, NY: John Day, 1961. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Taupe linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light edge & surface wear. PO name to front cover verso & numerals to fEP. Survey of worldwide (including Jordan, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Persia, Iraq, Pakistand and Afghanistan) excavations from 1945 through 1959, with the principle discoveries examined in detail. Supported by photo illustrations. Author Edward Bacon (1906-1981) was the archaeological editor of the Illustrated London News.

New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1982. Eighth Printing, 1988 . Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/4" Tall. The selections here are drawn from the Essayes (1597, 1612); The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (1625); The Proficience and Advancement of Learning; The Wisdom of the Ancients; The Great Instauration; The New Organon; Of the Dignity and Advancement of Learning; and New Atlantis. Additionally there are 22 letters written between 1592 and 1624. Altogether, a feast. 497 pages, with Contents and other prefatory matter, Glossary, and Selected Bibliography. Covers are bumped at front lower lagging corner, minorly creased at upper leading corner, and creased at backstrap; text is clean and strong.

Hauppauge, NY: Barrons Educational Series Inc, 1987. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First published in UK; this is the First American Edition. 100-plus recipes for meat, poultry, and game with an eye to healthy eating. Nutritional analysis w/each recipe along with a range of no-fat, or low-fat, cooking techniques. Illustrations and information on the leanest cuts compiled by the Senior Butcher at Harrods.