The David Bispham Treasury of Song: Selected Choruses for Mixed Voices for Home, School and Community Singing and for Choral Societies
by Bispham, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Universal Book and Bible House , 1920. Minor edge wear, lightly scuffed, very light stain and indentation on the rear board, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, somer very light shelf wear, overall a very crisp and clean collectible first edition! Very very rare and out-of-print! Decorative green cloth with a black illustration and gilt lettering on the front board and gilt lettering on the spine. Extremely scarce and hard-to-find title! 311 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and musical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Frontis is a black and white photograph of David Bispham. "A life spent in the service of music, and in the public interpretation of its various forms, ahs given me an unshakable belief in its power to arouse the best in human nature ---- to inspire, sustain, console and exalt. The desire has grown in me to share with the young people of America the finest things in music, and the present book has been compiled with the purpose of placing before them some of the songs that will live as long as human voices are uplifted together...." ---- from the Preface.. First Edition / First Printing. Decorative Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Conover Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036379
- Title
- The David Bispham Treasury of Song: Selected Choruses for Mixed Voices for Home, School and Community Singing and for Choral Societies
- Author
- Bispham, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Publisher
- Universal Book and Bible House
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- MUSIC SONGS SINGING RELIGIOUS RELIGION FOLK PATRIOTIC HYMNS SACRED OPERATIC SELECTIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
- Size
- 4to
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About the Seller
Conover Books
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Martinsville, Virginia
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