Search Results: Music from Attic Books

London: Quiller Press, 1982. Cloth. Near fine/As new. 360 p. 24 cm. Frontispiece, 111 b&w photos and illustrations, one family tree chart. 14 colour plates. Green cloth hardcover in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. A little dust to edges. When you've got a Royal Warrant, you're good. Very good. If any more proof is needed that Broadwood makes a fine piano, consider that the firm has been in business since 1728 and their instruments have been used by Haydn, Beethoven, and Chopin. Now that's good.

Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1989. Facsimile reproduction of the manuscript. Hardcover. Near fine. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts No. 17. xxvi, 114 p. 23 cm. Black cloth.

Toronto: Gordon V. Thompson , 1916. Softcover. Good. 27 p. 27 cm. Stapled. Spine tail torn. Ink signature on front cover. First and last pages browned. All of the songs recorded by R.C.A. Victor Co. Limited of Canada: On The Cool Atlantic Shore; Song of Acadia; Tom Talbot; Henry Hudson; Shadowy Footpath; River Song; Indian File; Hushabye; Jenny Trip Trip Trip; Canning Song; Snowflakes. Lists the tune eg. Snowflakes is an old French dance, Song of Acadia is the Scottish tune Tweedside, etc.

Kentville, NS: Kentville Publishing Co. Ltd., 1969. Softcover. Fair. vi, 170 p. 20 cm. B&w illustrations. Paperback. Cracked at pp. 116-117. Moderate wear and soiling to outside. 10 signatures inside, including Don Messer and the author. Rusty paperclip mark on rear pages. Tape marks on first and last pages.

Toronto: The Primrose Music & Book Concern, 1909. Sheetmusic. Fair. 5 p. 35 cm. Spine splitting. Small tears at edges. Letter "P" and pencil signature at top.

New York: Harper Design, 2011. Hardcover. Near fine. 224 p. 31 cm hardcover with b&w and colour illustrations. Separate folder includes numerous facsimile programs and tickets eg. Concert in honour of Albert Einstein, The Beatles, and other memorabilia. Together in black cloth covered slipcase with dent in one edge.

Grimsby: Poole Hall Press, nd. ca 1993. Hardcover. Very good +. Printed in an edition of 130. [38 p.]. 16 x 27 cm. 10 colour decorations. Green cloth spine with yellow paper boards. A few marks on boards. Publisher's Inscription on front free endpaper: "Christmas 1993. Best Wishes to Dorothy and Red from Margaret and Bill."

nd. Very good. 28 cm fold-out catalogue of sheet music. Available at J. Turner, Manning Ave., Toronto. Horizontal and vertical folds. Paper browned. Catalogue consisted of piano solos and duets, violin solos with piano, mandolin and guitar music, and numerous other instruments.

PRS For Music: The Lyric Book Company Ltd., 2014. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 181 p. 17 cm. Black cloth in dustjacket. Accompanied by small descriptive flyer. In black box with faint wear on bottom and one edge. Foreword by Tim Rice and intro by Guy Fletcher.

New York: G. Schirmer, 1960. Softcover. Very good. 58 p. 27 cm. Stapled softcover. Light soiling, ink stamp at bottom front.Ink stamp on title page.

Adelaide, Australia, ca. 1862-8. Good. Approx 25 x 16 cm brown silk rectangle with 2 cm fringe on an all edges. Printed on one side only. Horizontal and vertical folds. Some stains, mainly on reverse. Advertises Christy's Minstrels." Benefit of Mr. T. Rainford. Under the patronage of His Excellency Sir D. and Lady Daly, and Suite." Concert divided into three parts with Christy's Minstrels company and numerous others in Part I. Part III includes "Christy's Celebrated Burlesque written for them by W. Brough on the Opera of the Bohemian Girl!" Christy's Minstrels was a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, well-known ballad singer, in 1843, in Buffalo, New York. However, by the early-1860s, the terms Christy and Original Christy were being used by numerous minstrel troupes around the world, few of which had any connection to the one founded by Edwin. Many Australian-based Christy Minstrels formed during the 1860s. Sir Dominick Daly (1798-1868), present at this concert with his lady, was a… Read More

Ann Arbor: Steglein Publishing, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. vii, 456 p. 25 cm. Blue cloth in white and blue dustjacket.

nd. . Late 19th century reprint, originally printed for J. Roberts, 1723. Leather bound. Very good. 3 books in one volume: viii, [4], 287, [6], xi, [6], 266, [6], xii, [7], 263 p. 18 cm. 45 copper plates. Half leather signed binding by Fazakerley of Liverpool, a firm founded by Thomas Fazakerley in 1835. Binding has wear to extremities, spotting on pages 143 to 176 in third section. Ballads of merry old England tell the stories of such characters as the Fair Rosamond, St. George and the Dragon, King Alfred and the Shepherd, Robin Hood, Jane Shore, etc. Each is introduced by explanatory commentary.

St. Louis, MO: Concordian Publishing House, 1927. Hardcover sheetmusic . Very good. 74 p. 31 cm. Black cloth with gold print. Corners bumped. Tear in edge of title page. Ink signature on front free endpaper is that of Arnold Guebert, professor at Concordia College, Edmonton, Alberta. Pages have a few pencil marks.

Denver, CO, 1969. Softcover. Near fine. 9 x 12 b&w photos of Marty Robbins, Waylon Jennings, Kitty Wells, Charley Pride, Porter Wagoner, Loretta Lynn, Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton, others. Inscribed by Charley Pride on his photo. Signature inside rear cover may be that of Bill Phillips. Stapled softcover. Light wear.

Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1995. Hardcover. Near fine. Musicological Studies Vol. LX/2. viii, 318 p. 31 cm. Green cloth. Signature on front pastedown.

Winnipeg, 1960. Vol. XXX. Softcover. Good. 200 p. 26 cm. B&w illustrations. Paperback. Some ink notations on front. Light wear and soiling. Paper browned. Occasional foxing to first pages. Some dampstains. Croatian text.

New York: Firth, Pond & Co, 1853. Sheet_music. Fair. 6 p. including covers. 34 cm. Crystal Palace illustration on front cover. Rear cover detached. Holes in spine. Chipped bottom corner on cover. Tape residue on margins. Tear in botton of p. 3. Thumbing. "To Theodore Sedgwick , Esq." In 1852, Sedgwick became president of the Crystal Palace Association, organizing the construction of the Crystal Palace building for the New York World's Fair.

Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine. Dance & Music No. 7. xx, 197 p. 29 cm. Frontispiece and 8 other plates. Blue cloth with silver print.

Cologny-Geneve: Fondation Martin Bodmer, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Bibliotheca Bodmeriana. 2 vols. 33 cm. Green hardcover. B&w facsimile pages in vol. II. A facsimile of an eleventh century musical manuscript featuring the Mass according to the Old Roman tradition. The original manuscript, housed in a private Swiss library, is not only the oldest musical manuscript from the city of Rome but one of the earliest decipherable documents of Western chant. Professor Lütolf from the University of Zurich provides a commentary volume with indexes.