Search Results: Music & Dance from Augustine Funnell Books

1988. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Souvenir programme for the 1988 version of the extravaganza described on the Tattoo's site as, "the world's largest annual indoor show. Its unique combination of music, dance, drama, gymnastics, comedy, military displays, competitions and much more, continues to thrill audiences year after year." 56 pages, four souvenir postcards still attached, copiously illustrated. Two Tattoo newsletters/cover letter laid in. Moderate general wear..

Memphis: Jarodoce Publications, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by band members. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of a Gospel group that has sold more than 50,000,000 copies of 200+ albums, winning a boatload of awards and receiving considerable recognition in the process. This copy signed on front free end paper by Bundy Brewster (the band's "professional driver"), Dave Weston (piano, 1966-68), James Blackwood (lead singer), and London Parris (more accurately, perhaps, Conley "London" Parris, bass); and on reverse of front free end paper by Cecil Blackwood (baritone). Souvenir and gift page unused. Bright orange cloth w/black cover lettering, 191 pages, illustrated. Spine a bit cocked, light general wear, in dust jacket w/light wear to corners/spine ends, 3/8" tear to left edge of front panel, two shorter tears to edges of rear panel..

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014. Book. Very Good to Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dresden Dolls co-founder Palmer here gives us "the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the 21st century, both on and off the Internet." Palmer is married to writer Neil Gaiman. Foreword by Brené Brown. White boards w/black spine lettering, 337 pages + brief author biography, illustrated. A bit of bumping to spine ends, bump to fore-edge of both covers, light general wear, in dust jacket w/mild bumping to spine ends, a couple of small smudges to front panel. All in all a nice copy..

London: Queen Anne Press Ltd., 1975. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Offers "a whole collection of very important Roller pictures" by the guy "who is their official photographer." Although they began playing in the mid'60s, they didn't become teenybopper heartthrobs until about the mid-'70s, after which they sold 120,000,000 records worldwide. Unpaginated. Minor edgewear, a few impressions/thin scratches, moderate handling wear. Uncommon..

St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folklore, 1976. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Stapled Wraps. First Thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The second title in Memorial University's Reprint Series, this one containing a pair of articles, the first entitled "'Folk' and 'Country Music in the Canadian Maritimes: A Regional Model," first published in 1974 in The Journal of Country Music, the second entitled "Studying Country Music and Contemporary Folk Music Traditions in the Maritimes: Theory, Techniques, and the Archivist," first published in Phonographic Bulletin, in 1976. Booklet, 20 pages (including notes for both articles). Sunned edges, small nick to top edge of front cover..

Williamsburg: Seven Willows, 2009. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One of two books on jazz written by an accomplished professor of English at Carleton University (among several other institutions of higher learning worldwide), who for 75 years was a renowned jazz enthusiast/collector/authority who amassed a collection of 9,000 records before bequeathing them to Carleton upon his death in 2018. Inscription reads, "For Harold/with all good wishes/Trevor/May 2009". A very scarce title. 98 pages, illustrated w/four plates (three in colour). Internally tight and clean w/light general wear. .

Carlton Books, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This one "looks at the entire output of Pink Floyd track by track in chronological order, exploring the creative context behind the music, the albums and the concepts." Pictorial boards, 176 pages (including chronology, list of discs/videos/books, author's acknowledgments, index), copiously illustrated. Moderate general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/thin scratches, small area where glossy finished has lifted. All in all, though, a nice copy..

Derby: Charlton Publishing Corp. Magazine. Good to Very Good. Wraps. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A four-issue lot of one of rock music's better-than-average magazines from the 1960s and '70s, with articles, interviews, photographs, song lyrics and other stuff of paramount importance to your average drug-addled teenage music freak just a year or so before Altamont, which marked the beginning of the end for the peace/love/groovy years. Mainly in pretty good shape w/scrape to bottom right portion of back cover of September issue, and only moderate general handling wear otherwise..

Port Coquitlam: Privately published, 1978. Book. Illus. by Charles R. Hughes, Jack M. Heitz, and Reginald Guest, with photography by Stephan Mirsky. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A play with song lyrics by Gloria Jean Hughes, poetry by Jack M. Heitz, and photography by Stephan Mirsky. Uncommon. 36 pages, Moderately soiled covers, corner wear, moderate handling wear..

St. Stephen: Print'N Press Ltd., 1978. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of New Brunswick musician David Thomson. Foreword by Louis Robichaud. 97 pages + 13 pages of photographs. Reading crease, edgewear, moderate handling wear, previous owner's sticker to inside front cover..

Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1888. Book. Illus. by Charles Copeland, Mary Hallock Foote. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains lyrics and music for three Foster compositions, "Old Folks at Home," "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Nelly Was a Lady." Frontispiece illustration of Christine Nilsson "as she appeared when singing 'The Swanee River.'" Ivory cloth w/silver foil lettering/decoration, silver foil illustration in navy blue circular design, pale blue decoration, the same silver foil/pale blue/navy blue lettering decorations to spine, gilt edges, unpaginated (98), copiously illustrated. Mildly cocked, light smudging/soil to cloth, bumped/moderately worn corners, light flaking to edge gilt, previous owner's stamped surname to both pastedowns, short tears to hinges, frontispiece tissue excised..

Cork: Guy and Company Limited, 1894. Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small quarto. Contains about 300 poems/ballads by more than 135 writers, "with biographical notices, notes, etc." First Series. Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 360 pages, illustrated. An ex-library copy w/a few of the usual librarian-inflicted desecrations, some bubbling to cloth (probably water-related), edgewear, worn/scraped corners/spine ends, 1" deep strip torn from top of front end paper, gift inscription to second end paper, piece torn from bottom corner of pages 317/8 (does not affect text), tanning..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No date (1913). A collection of 23 essays, divided into four sections: Railway Romance, Meanderings With Mother Nature, Stepping-Stones o'er Troubled Waters, and Threads through the Maze. Green cloth w/gilt lettering/rule to spine, 291 pages. Bumped/worn corners/spine ends, wear to spine edges, a bit of cover soil/wear, dusty/moderately soiled edges, tanning..

Derby: Charlton, 1973. Magazine. Very Good. Magazine. Small quarto. A collection of lyrics to popular songs in the winter of 1973-74. Divided into pop, soul and country categories, and featuring the lyrics to recordings by Bread, Lobo, James Brown, Tom T. Hall, Tammy Wynette, Fifth Dimension (each with a short feature article), as well as lyrics to recordings by George Harrison, Anne Murray, Jackson 5, Arlo Guthrie, Steeler's Wheel, and many others. Among the songs are "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," "Give Me Love," "You're So Vain," "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," "Superstition," "Touch Me in the Morning," "Ravishing Ruby," "Send Me No Roses," " Emptiest Arms in the World," and more. 66 pages, illustrated. Top right tip of front cover torn off, as well as the tips of the next three pages, with diminishing loss, 1/2" tear to top edge of front cover, light general wear..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (M&S), 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author provides a wealth of folklore, including songs, sayings and verse from her childhood in Northern Ireland. Kane's inscription reads, "To Mary Barker/Greetings!/Alice Kane/7/12/84." Another, non-authorial, gift inscription reads, "for Mary Barker,/in kind appreciation for/including me in the planning/and activities of the visit/of the first Canadian astronaut/ to Fredericton, Nov. 30, 1984/sincerely/Gary Whiteford/UNB" (Whiteford was a geology professor at the University of New Brunswick, and was well-known as a world traveller and huge baseball fan -- he died in 2013). Cream cloth w/caramel cloth backstrip, cream spine lettering, 254 pages (including notes and references, publications cited, records cited, songs known by James Joyce, and index of titles and first lines), illustrated. Bumped bottom… Read More

Kingston: Fox Music Books, 2004. Book. Very Good to Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "A previous edition of this book was released by Penguin Books Canada Ltd in 1993 as 'An Unfinished Conversation: The Life and Music of Stan Rogers.' This special commemorative edition has been substantially updated, expanded, and annotated." That earlier version seems easy enough to get, but for some reason this version doesn't seem to be around much. Foreword by Sylvia Tyson. 269 pages, illustrated. Internally tight and clean w/bumped bottom spine, light general wear..

London: Peter Owen, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains the plays "Him," "Anthropos: or the Future of Art," and "Santa Claus, a Morality," and the ballet "Tom," (based on 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'). Introduction by Firmage. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 170 pages. Gently bumped corners/spine ends, odd little bump (3/8" long by 1/8" wide) on front pastedown (the suspicion here is that in the printing process some little thing got caught betwixt inside cover and pastedown, but hey, for all I know it could be a device planted by the totalitarian Chinese Communists to monitor Theatre of the Absurd readers), tanned edges, in price-clipped dust jacket w/light edgewear, small edge nicks, some smudging to panels. .