Music And Performing Arts from Eric James

Oxfford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1975. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, xxxix + 536 pages including "Mucical examples from more than seven hundred songs---"; very gently read, if at all, tight in binding, just a hint of rubbing to bottom cover edges and faded traces of dust speckling to top edge, very clean and unmarked throughout,… Read more

New York: Macmillan, 1989. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, second printing, 255 pages, with "---more than 250" photographs, many in full colour; book very gently used, tight in binding, not a trace of shelf or reading wear, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ gently bumped at spine ends, but no tears… Read more

New York: New Press, 1973. Hardcover without dust jacket, 210 pages, plus Foreword and black-and-white photographs (WARNING to the faint of heart, several of these are of a naked lady!); very gently used, not a trace of wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout;. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read more

Los Angeles: Robert A. Harris/Images Film Archive/Zoetrope Studios, 1981. Oversized stapled paperback pamphlet, 16 pages including four-page centrefold, black-and-white photographs throughou (covers in colour), not a trace of shelf wear, very clean and unmarked, essentially as new.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Toronto: Prentice Hall Canada, 1996. Oversized softcover with flaps, later printing, x + 243 pages, extensively illustrated in black-and-white; very gently read, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white.. Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: Oliver Ditson Company, 1911. Hardcover without dust jacket, ix + 93 pages including black-and-white illustrations and Examples throughout; reddish brown cloth covers have traces of old staining, light to moderate shelf wear to cover edges, front cover gilt lettering and decoration bright and clear (spine lettering faded to obscurity), rubber stamped Canadian… Read more

London, United Kingdom: Omnibus Press, 1990. Trade paperback, xv + 383 pages, plus black-and-white photographs; some tiny traces of shelf wear accumulated over the decades, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2002. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 232 pages including black-and-white illustrations throughout; the DJ back inside flap has a light crease, but both book and DJ otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition. Of related interest, see also our listings for Robert Brockhouse's The Royal Alexandra Threatre:… Read more

Caldwell, Idaho, U.S.A.: Caxton Printers , 1961. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 263 page, plus black-and-white photographs; very gently used, hardly a trace of shelf wear, tight in binding, all text pages very clean and unmarked, surprisingly fresh and white for a book of this vintage, but there are traces of pale faded old… Read more

New York: Scholastic, 1983. Trade paperback, 551 pages; tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, spine and part of front cover faded, spine creases, otherwise gently used, not abused, very clean and unmarked, pages fresh and white. See also our listing for Cinema, The Magic… Read more

New York: Scholastic, 1983. Trade paperback, 551 pages; tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, spine and part of front cover faded, spine creases, otherwise gently used, not abused, very clean and unmarked, pages fresh and white. See also our listing for Cinema, … Read more

London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 84 pages including 45 black-and-white photographs; light shelf wear to cover edges, very gently used, tight in binding, fading to bottom tenth or so of both covers, probably due to exposure to moisture, ink signature… Read more

New York: George Braziller, 1967. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 218 pages;---I have added the later hardcover ISBN for convenience but it does NOT appear in the book nor on the DJ; First Printing is stated, therefore also First Edition although not stated;---elegant book in dark gray cloth with lettering in silver gilt and red, just a hint of shelf… Read more

Edinburgh, Scotland: Gene Gordon Publications, 1956. Stapled softcover pamphlet, 14 pages including illustrative drawings; tiny traces of shelf wear, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for Performing Magic for Children: Theories, Thoughts, Tricks and Tips for Structuring… Read more

London, United Kingdom: English Universities Press, 1967. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, ix + 179 pages including many Figures and Errata slip tipped-in; very gently used ex-library copy with only tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, clear tape residue (from previously attached mylar protector) to outside and inside of covers, "whited… Read more

New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, xiv + 350 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition. See also our listing for The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Prentice-Hall and Harry N. Abrams, 1968. Oversized softcover with French flaps, xxii + 318pages, including "305 illustrations, including 31 large plates in full color, plus 10 diagrams, 2 maps, and 1 chart"; tiny traces of shelf wear, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition. … Read more

Toronto: Holt Rinehart & Winston Canada, 1964. Trade paperback, later printing, vi + 234 pages including 234 illustrations, 16 in full colour; spine and covers creased and rubbed, blacked out name inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. See also our listing for… Read more

Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1918. Hardcover with dust jacket, 338 pages, plus archival black-and-white photographs; light shelf wear to cover edges, particularly spine top, bottom edge scuffed, endpapers lightly foxed (but not text pages, different type of paper), beautifully written inscription on free front endpaper "To Dear Edward, Xmas 1918.", beneath which, glued to the endpaper,… Read more

London: Faber & Faber, 1992. Trade paperback, later printing, 610 pages including black-and-white illustrations, plus a section in both full colour and black-and-white; gently used, not abused, but spine and covers creased, other light shelf wear, just a hint of fore edge finger soiling, interior very clean and unmarked.. Soft Cover. Good.