Search Results: Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance from Dennis Holzman Antiques

The Baker & Taylor Company, New York, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Minor water damage to covers and text. Burgundy gilt stamped cloth over boards with paste down illustration on front cover of Mozart as a child, frontis with tissue of Mozart as a child, 243 pages, in addition to the frontis there are 11 black-and-white plates of composers (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Strauss, Schubert, Grieg, Wagner), XXVII figures in the text (musical notations). Corners and spine ends lightly worn, damp stain on front cover has caused bleeding onto paste down on front cover and on front and back end papers. Includes chapters on the listener's part in music, what music is made up of, meter… Read More

Biglow & Main, New York and Chicago, 1874. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Fair/None Issued. Size: Rectangular Octavo. The Preface reads in part: "The extraordinary interest awakened in the cause of Temperance is one of the notable manifestations of benevolent and religious activity. . .To aid in the performance of this philanthropic service, The Tidal Wave has been compiled." There are 61 temperance songs with titles such as The Tidal Wave, On to the Conquest!, Vote It Out, O Rouse Ye, Christian Woman, For God and the Right, Intemperance Like a Raging Flood. Black cloth spine, orange paper over boards, 5½" x 8 3/8", 64 pages (the title page & Preface are included), published by Biglow & Main, New York; and National Temperance Society & Publication House, New York; Index to titles and first lines, back cover has a price list of other song books of a religious nature. Boards quite soiled and chipped along all edges; a little foxing on endpapers, front &… Read More