Art Song In America - A Study In The Development Of American Music by Upton, William Treat

Oliver Ditson Company, 1930. Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7. Maroon bds have some coverwear - edgewear on spine, fading on lower edge near tip on ft. and back, scuffed tips, sunned spine. Former owner's name and state and date on first page, plus a stamp below of former store owner. Writing on last two end pages & back page. Pages have age-toning, a few tender spots in binding, but still good and tight. A few pencil and pen marks in text, moderate marginalia. 279 pages. Errata Slip attached inside.

Oliver Ditson Company, Boston, 1930. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, copyright 1930, 1938. xi,279 & 41 pages. Illustrated. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, no dj. 'Emanuel Rubin, July, 1969' on blank - University of Massachusetts music professor. VG/none.

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. xi, 279pp. Errata slip tipped to half-title page. Illustrations, musical notations. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgewear; couple of upper page corners of this rather acidic-papered text chipped. Tight, nice first edition with nice associations: Front pastedown bears the custom music-theme bookplate of HOLLIS DANN (1861-1938), the distinguished head of Cornell University's music department, director of music education at New York University (who later named a school of music after him), chief of music education for the state of Pennsylvania, compiler of choral collections and prolific author of renowned music instruction texts. In addition, this copy came from the library of musicologist and conductor/director Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94).