Search results for: 'the works'
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BRENNEMAN, George W., & others (illus.) Favorite Folk-Ballads.New York : 1889
First edition. This work, reviewed in The Dial as "a rather pleasing volume", consists of the lyrics of four songs with accompanying sheet music: "The Old Folks at Home", "Annie Laurie", "Kathleen Mavourneen", and "When the Swallows Homeward Fly". Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 124880
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LENNON, John. A Spaniard in the Works.London : 1965
First edition, first impression, of Lennon's second collection of humorous poetry and prose. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 134076
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RIMBAULT, Edward F. The Pianoforte.London : 1860
First and only edition, with 195 copies only being printed for 175 subscribers, who included Gustav André & Co. (Philadelphia), Henry C. Banister (professor of the Royal Academy of Music), John Hopkinson (pianoforte manufacturer), Conrad Kraus (architect, Mayence), Charles C. Mellor (organist, Pittsburgh), Boardwood & Sons (whose pianos were used by... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 121413
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![Ocherki po istorii tantseval'noi muzyki [Essays on the history of Dance Music].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/126481.jpg)
DRUSKIN, Mikhail Semenovich. Ocherki po istorii tantseval'noi muzyki [Essays on the history of Dance Music].Leningrad : 1936
First and only edition. One of 3500 copies. Uncommon, just 14 copies on OCLC. This is the first systematic work on dance music in Russian, which includes notable early criticism of Shostakovich's ballets. Mikhail Druskin (1905-1991), Soviet musicologist, was responsible for a wide range of cultural-historical publications, also working as a broadcaster.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 126481
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HAYDN, Joseph. Die Schoepfung, Ein Oratorium … The Creation, An Oratorio.Vienna : 1800
First edition, published by the composer, extremely uncommon, particularly so with the seldom-encountered 4-leaf subscribers list; an excellent copy of this monumental work, widely recognised as one of the highpoints of the Western musical canon. "The Creation is a masterwork in the special sense that it has no weak point, nothing that could be changed... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 125770
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(ROLLING STONES.) REJ, Bent. The Rolling Stones in the Beginning.London : 2006
Special limited edition, 561 of 1000 copies. Bent Rej accompanied the Rolling Stones as photographer on their tour of Germany in 1965. This work collects together photos taken during this tour and acts as "a fascinating historical archive of one of the world's greatest bands in their infancy" (Guardian 3 September 2006). Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 121901
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HASSE, Johann Adolph. The Comic Tunes &c.London : 1741
First edition of the first volume of what became a highly popular eight-volume series printed over 20 years, and representing important documentation of the rôle of Italian dancers in London theatres in the mid-18th century."For just over two decades in the middle of the eighteenth century the firm of John Walsh sporadically published booklets of music... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 134786
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(GERSHWIN, Ira.) SELDES, Gilbert. The Seven Lively Arts.New York & London : 1924
First edition, signed limited issue, association copy, with the ownership inscription of Jazz Age lyricist Ira Gershwin to the front free endpaper. Ira Gershwin often collaborated with his younger brother, George, starting with Lady, be Good, in 1924. George Gershwin is mentioned numerous times throughout the book, with his portrait facing page 92,... Learn More£775.00Stock Code: 128542
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(ROLLING STONES.) TARLÉ, Dominique. The Making of Exile On Main St.Guildford : 2001
First edition, number 1,101 of 2,000 copies signed by the photographer, 260 of which were issued in a full leather binding, with a signed and numbered print, and additionally signed by Mick Taylor. Exile on Main St. was The Rolling Stones tenth studio album released in the UK. Many of the tracks were recorded in the summer of 1971 at a rented villa... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 135029
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BORTIN, Virginia. Elinor Remick Warren: her life and music.Metuchen, New Jersey : 1987
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Remick Warren, "To Patsy, with all loving good wishes and happy memories of neighborhood days, from Elinor Remick Warren Griffins" on the front free endpaper. Works signed by Remick Warren are uncommon. Warren's "neo-Romantic style which was accessible to audiences and characterized... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 134308
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CRAM, Mildred. Madder Music.Boston : 1930
First edition, first printing, in the scarce and attractive jacket, of this novel concerning a little girl adopted into an "artistic, colorful, temperamental, strongly individualistic" theatrical and musical family, the matriarch of which was a personal friend of Liszt, Puccini and Strauss. Cram was a popular author of the 1920s and 1930s, and many... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 110147
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HANDEL, George Frideric. Eighteenth-century religious musical manuscript, but including notation of minuets by Handel.English : c.1750
Unusual mid-eighteenth century manuscript in an unknown hand largely comprised of liturgical music, but with the almost surreptitious inclusion of minuets by Handel. The first six rectos carry neumatic notation in brown and red ink of a Kyrie, Gloria, Credo and Sanctus from a so far unidentified Mass. Then spread over the versos of the first four of... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 134794
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STRAVINSKY, Igor. Inscribed original portrait photograph.Hollywood : 1960
Fine "unguarded" photograph of the great Russian composer, captured by Columbia Records chief engineer and amateur photographer Fred Plaut (1907-1985). Inscribed by Stravinsky in ballpoint pen: "To Jack Gottlieb my best greetings, sincerely I. Stravinsky, Hollywood Feb. 1960". Jack Gottlieb (1930-2011) was a composer and musician "who wished to be remembered... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 121805
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(RIMBAUD, Arthur.) VIEILLARD, Roger. Hommage A Rimbaud.Paris : 1945
First edition, first printing, inscribed in pencil "à Ralph Kirkpatrick pour 'les possibilités harmoniques' Roger Vieillard amicalement" inside the first blank, including two musical drawings, further drawings on the title page with the caption "pour Ralph Kirkparick" signed with Vieillard's "RV" monogram and dated "1942-1971-1982". This copy number... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135463
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(McCartney, Paul.) McCARTNEY, Linda. Life in Photographs.Cologne : 2011
First edition, number 18 of 200 artists proofs signed by Paul McCartney, with an additional plate entitled Horse, also signed by McCartney. The work was released in a signed limited edition of 1,000, 250 of which were released with an additional signed and numbered plate. This work was produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and gathers... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 135251
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MARTIN, George. Playback.Guildford : 2002
Signed limited edition, number 225 of 2,000 copies signed by George Martin, the record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician best known for his work with the Beatles. This is one of 250 deluxe copies and includes a six-CD box set produced and signed by Martin. Also included are two pieces of sheet music by Martin, "The... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 136080
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(ROLLING STONES.) O'NEILL, Terry; Gered Mankowitz. Breaking Stones.London : 2016
First edition, first impression, signed on the title page by Gered Mankowitz and inscribed by Terry O'Neill: "Long Live the Stones Terry O'Neill". This work was published to coincide with the opening of Exhibitionism, the first international exhibition on the Rolling Stones, which was held at Saatchi Gallery from 5 April to 4 September 2016. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 128784
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(ROLLING STONES.) O'NEILL, Terry; Gered Mankowitz. Breaking Stones.London : 2016
First edition, first impression, signed on the title page by Gered Mankowitz and inscribed by Terry O'Neill: "Long Live the Stones Terry O'Neill". This work was published to coincide with the opening of Exhibitionism, the first international exhibition on the Rolling Stones, which was held at Saatchi Gallery from 5 April to 4 September 2016. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 140154
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GERSHWIN, George. Porgy and Bess.New York : 1935
First edition, signed limited issue, number 39 of 250 copies bound in publisher's full red morocco and signed by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Rouben Mamoulian.
In summer 1926 George Gershwin read DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy, about the Gullah community in South Carolina, in one sitting. "The potential of this book to become the... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 137418
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BOWIE, David, & Geoff MacCormick. From Station to Station. Travels with Bowie 1973-1976.Guildford : 2007
First edition, number 170 of 350 deluxe copies signed by Bowie and MacCormack, and with the additional portrait of Bowie signed by MacCormack in the printed envelope.
This richly illustrated work documents the three years MacCormack spent writing, recording, performing, living and travelling with David Bowie. The book presents photographs and items... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139485
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SIME, Sidney H., & Joseph Holbrooke. Bogey Beasts.London : [1923]
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "To a serious worker in Laquer:- Mervyn O'Gorman from a nonsensical maker of jingles, with all the regards: Sidney H. Sime. 1930". The recipient, Mervyn O'Gorman (18711958) was an electrical and aeronautical engineer, partly responsible for the publication of the... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 138437
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(DYLAN, Bob.) Original signed photograph by Don Hunstein.New York : 1963
A beguiling vérité image of the great songwriter, walking away from the camera with slung guitar across the floor of a deserted recording studio, captured by the celebrated Don Hunstein in August of 1963 at Columbia's Studio A in New York City. This was the album session that produced the iconic "The Times They Are A-Changin'".
Don Hunstein... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 121839
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CAGE, John. Silence: Lectures and Writings.Middleton, CT : 1961
First edition, first printing, of Cage's first monograph. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Jean with love and nostalgia for family and place - the Palisades, John Cage". The composer had grown up in the Pacific Palisades, and returned there in the late 50s to write much of this book there. The volume, which... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 133163
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DUKE, Vernon. Holograph Musical Quotation Signed: "April in Paris".1941
Boldly penned and lengthy musical quotation - the first seven measures including lyrics - of one of Duke's finest and most memorable compositions, neatly inscribed "To Lionel A. Aucoin from Vernon Duke Sept. 27th, 1941". "April in Paris" is, of course, one of the timeless standards of the "Great American Songbook", originally composed for the 1932 Broadway... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 121835
