The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening
by Joseph Machlis
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1955. Does not state first edition. Good copy. Poor DJ. Clean pages. In red cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine (moderately faded). Previous owner's name on front paste-down. Bumping of head and tail of spine and corners. Moderate shelf rubbing. For a book this size, thers is light underlining to slect words and phrases. Jacket is inatct but with much bumping , chipping, and tears to edges. Flaps were taped to paste-downs. Moderate to heavy shelf rubbing. In new protective jacket cover.. Hard Cover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000958
- Title
- The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening
- Author
- Joseph Machlis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- MUSIC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
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About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Spine
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- Poor
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.