Search Results: Titles starting with H from Balcony Books and Records

N.Y.: Caedmon Records. Very Good Vinyl Record/Very Good Record Sleeve. 1960. 331/3 RPM LP VINYL RECORD. This is an Audio Book This extraordinary interview was held with H. L. MENCKEN on June 30, 1948 in Washington, D.C. This one-hour, unrehearsed conversation with the reluctant author and curmudgeon was obtained by Donald Howe Kirkley of the Baltimore Sun, and is one of a few rare recording of Mencken. Caedmon Records, 1082, Stereo, released in 1960. Both vinyl and sleeve in Very Good condition, record plays well, sounds good. RARE AUDIO ARCHIVE / JOURNALISM / LANGUAGE. 18566. .

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0691021201 399 pages, with index, bibliography and extensive source notes. Illustrated with 3 maps to front plus 26 historical photographs, and includes the essay THE HAJJ IN EARLY PHOTO DOCUMENTS by C. E. S. Gavin. .

U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company. New/Fine Dust Jacket. 2009. Large Hard Cover. 9780393068153 NEW OFF OUR WAREHOUSE SHELVES.192 pages, a large hardcover volume, approx 9" x 10", in dust jacket. A celebration of Appalachian artistic traditions from Nashville to Raleigh, with an accompanying CD of music. Tim Barnwell’s photography has documented the people of Appalachia for over three decades, capturing a way of life and work that has changed little in the past hundred years. Now with sensitivity and grace he honors the music and handcrafts of the region, showing musicians and craftspeople in their homes, studios, shops, or in concert. HANDS IN HARMONY features striking duotone portraits of these artisans and musicians, accompanied by biographies and oral histories. Here we become acquainted with banjo players, wood carvers, basket weavers, fiddlers, blacksmiths, and many more. A music CD with twenty songs from musicians featured in the book is included. .

N Y: Random House. Very Good/Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1991. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. 039457526 337 pages, with inde, source notes, and list of books by Bukowski to rear; plus 8 pages photographs. Very good hardcover in nice dust jacket. Shows some discoloring at edges, but interior is clean, binding solid. The first comprehensive biography of the poet and writer Charles Bukowski. .

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. New/Fine Dust Jacket. 1999. First Printing. Large Hardcover. Folio - 12" tall x 9" 1560988096 NEW OFF OUR WAREHOUSE SHELVES. Accompanied by a biographical essay by Carolyn Kinder Carr, this collection of seventy-five of Hans Namuth's photographic portraits, taken between 1950 and 1989, shows how his friendships with his often reclusive subjects and his determination to capture the essence of each person's style resulted in revealing portraits of notable cultural figures, especially painters such as Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth, Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollack. A Large Hardcover Folio - approx. 12" tall x 9", with both black and white and color plates. 166 pages, with index and bibliography, plus a foreward by Alan Fern. Published for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 1999 by the Smithsonian Institution Press. .

N Y: The Monacelli Press. Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 2012. First Edition. Large Hardcover. 9781580933070 A FINE, AS NEW LARGE HARDCOVER, in photo illustrated boards, no jacket as issued. 320 pages, with photo illustrated endpapers. includes index, bibliography, plus a chronology of New York performance works and exhibitions. ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT, with principal photography by Robert R. McElroy, text by Mildred L. Glimcher. A wonderful photographic history of the Happenings movement in New York, from 1958 to 1963. .

New York: Bloch Publishing Company. Very Good/No Jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover, Green Cloth. A collection of stories for and about Jewish young people, including stories from World War II and Palestine. A nice hardcover volume, 168 pages, has former owner's name notation inside front, otherwise solid and clean in green cloth (no jacket), only very light wear at extremities and a some minor foxing (discoloring) from age. Illustrated with drawings by Shirley Knoring. Published by Bloch Publishing Company "The Jewish Book Concern" in New York in 1946, first edition. .

Mountain View, California: Demo Records 513. Near Fine Vinyl Record/Near Fine Record Sleeve. 1978. 33 1/3 RPM VINYL RECORD. . Rare folk/psych LP, featuring Patricia Hardin, Tom Russell and large cast of musicians and background singers. All songs written by Hardin and Russell, original illustrated lyric sheet enclosed. Demo records, 1978, near fine vinyl record in near fine original sleeve (with corner clip at top right). Songs include: HOUSE OF WAX / STAMPEDE / TARANTULA / WILDHORSE ANNIE / MR. FAULKNER IN HOLLYWOOD / WIND ON THE BUFFALO GRASS / THE END OF THE TRAIL / WHO IS FRANZ RUMMEL? / JOSHUA TREE / THE PHANTOM OF BALANCE / THE HINDENBURG .

N Y: Ekay Music. Fine/ . 1990. First Printing. Large Paperbound. 12" High x 9" Wide 0943748437 A Fine Large Paperbound volume, bright, clean and solid; 12" High x 9" Wide, 176 pages. sheet music throughout, plus a note by Dick Hyman, a Preface, introductory essays about Harlem Stride Piano, and profiles of the musicians. Also includes a select discography and bibliography. With 26 pieces of sheet music, transcribed by Ricardo Scivales. Includes music as performed by James P. Johnson, Willie the Lion Smith, Fats Waller, Joe Turner, Eubie Blake, Luckey Roberts, Hank Duncan, Cliff Jackson, Claude Hopkins, Donald Lambert and Dick Wellstood. HARLEM STRIDE PIANO SOLOS. 26 CLASSIC SOLOS BY THE GREATEST JAZZ PIANISTS OF THE SWING ERA .

Boise, Idaho : American Heritage Music Corporation. Near Fine Vinyl Record/Fine Record Sleeve. 1968. 33 1/3 RPM LP VINYL RECORD. . This LP Vinyl Record features Oregon Oldtime Fiddle Champion HAROLD ALLEN, from Corvallis. Believed to be released in 1968, though no date is present on sleeve. Liner notes mention that Allen, Oregon State Champion, came in third in the National Contest in 1968. Released by American Heritage Music Corporation of Boise Idaho. Inludes 12 selections, some with acoompanying musicians. Near Fine Vinyl Record in Fine Record Sleeve. .

N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls. Near Fine/Very Good (edge-worn) D.J.. 1973. Hard Cover. 432 pages, with index, source notes, and photo illustrations. A clean and solid hardcover, in edgeworn dust jacket, which is now protected by a mylar wrapper. .

Harvard Law School Yearbook Association . Very Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. This original publication features photos in the faculty section of many prominent legal scholars who would later become well known to the public. Includes photos of two future Supreme Court Justices including RUTH BADER GINSBURG, identified as a lecturer on the Law and Professor STEPHEN BREYER. Other prominent faculty listings, with photos, include DERRICK BELL and ARCHIBALD COX. The one major flaw to this volume is on page 59/60, where a faculty photo has been excised from the volume, cut out at the top quarter of the page. Otherwise in good condition, with no marks or notations within, 256 pages, including articles, advertiusments, and photographs. HARVARD LAW SCHOOL YEARBOOK, 1972. .

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Near Fine/Very Good Dust Jacket. 1956. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover, Black Cloth. 452 pages, with index. A Near Fine, solid and clean hardcover volume; in Very Good edgeworn dust jacket, now protected by a mylar wrapper. Using Heine's letters, articles and poems, Hugo Bieber has pieced together a continuing story of Heine's life. English Translations Made or Selected by Moses Hadas. .

N.Y.: International Collectors Library. Fine. Hard Cover. 382 pages, index, frontis photograph, fine hardcover in red boards with gilt decor. .

New York: Horace Liveright. Near Fine/No Jacket. 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. 339 pages, First Edition, First issue, with error "fiugers" instead of "fingers" on page 35. A very solid and entirely clean copy, about near fine in burnt orange buckram with blind stamped decoration to front boards, yellow lettering to spine. With frontis. map and many photographic illustrations within. Chronicles life in small town America during the Great Depression years, growing out of Anderson's time as an editor of two country weekly newspapers in Smyth County, Virginia. Scarce. .

Conesville, Iowa: John Westburg and Associates. Near Fine. 1968. Trade Paperback. 109 pages, frontis. portrait of James, source notes. A solid and clean paperback. .

New York: Offbeat Records. Fine Vinyl Record/Near Fine Record Sleeve. 1961. 331/3 RPM LP VINYL RECORD and BOOK. This is an Audio Book A beautiful copy of this extremely rare LP featuring the voice of Henry Miller, recorded in conversations with Ben Grauer in New York City in 1956, and released in 1961 by Grauer on his Offbeat Records label. Vinyl is as beautiful a copy as we have ever seen, and the original illustrated sleeve shows only minor wear, and features a photo on front of Miller at a chess board. Grauer labels the LP "a first audition, never previously released" and states in his liner notes that "as a book collector himself, he feels a spoken word first audition deserves a place alongside the author's first editions". Interview in 7 titled parts, side 1: MORALITY AND MODERN MAN / PLAYING IT SAFE / PEBBLE IN THE POND / FRENCH PROSTITUTES AND GERMAN side 2: OUR INSECT WORLD / THE PARIS "HOUSES" / GETTING FREE. .

London: Abacus. Fine. 2001. Trade Paperback. 0349114617 333 with index, bibliography and source notes, plus 22 illustrations. A fine, like new trade paperback, clean and solid. .

Epic Records. Fine Vinyl Record/Fine Record Sleeve. 1976. 331/3 RPM LP VINYL RECORD. Original Epic label LP from 1976, Herb Pedersen's folk/rock album includes appearances by Linda Ronstadt, Emmy-Lou Harris and Larry Carlton. Stereo, PE 34225. .

Zurich, Switzerland: Im Verlag Der Arche. Near Fine. 1969. Small Paperback. 48 p. Text in German .