Music and Music-Makers
by MORSE, Constance
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 364pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with small edge chips (mainly at head and tail of spine) and spine age toned. A tight, handsome first edition of this broad survey, running from ancient Egypt and Greece up through the early 20th century. Unusual to find in a nice jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38162
- Title
- Music and Music-Makers
- Author
- MORSE, Constance
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Music;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.