Mendelssohn

41220 — Blackburn Vernon. Mendelssohn. London: George Bell & Sons 1904. Small octavo. Boards. 53 pp. text 19 pp. advertisements. Binding worn; endpapers browned. Spotting and staining throughout; one signature partially split. Bell's Miniature Series of Musicians. <br /> <br /> Blunt Wilfrid. On Wings of Song: A Biography of Felix Mendelssohn. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1974. Large octavo. Boards. 288 pp. Profusely illustrated. Minor browning to outer edges. In worn dustjacket. <br /> <br /> Bötel Friedhold. Mendelssohns Bachrezeption und ihre Konsequenzen dargestellt an den Präludien und Fugen für Orgel op. 37. München: Emil Katzbichler 1984. Octavo. Full dark brown cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 134 pp. With occasional musical examples. From the library of musicologist and German professor William A. Little with his pencilled annotations and a letter from the author to Little laid in. <br /> <br /> Dahms Walter. Mendelssohn. Sechste bis Neunte Auflage. Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler 1922. Octavo. Original publisher's ivory linen-backed printed boards. 202 pp. Binding slightly worn; endpapers foxed with former owner's signature to front free endpaper. <br /> <br /> Elvers Rudolf ed. Felix Mendelssohn: A Life in Letters . Translated from the German by Craig Tomlinson. New York: Fromm 1986. Octavo. Full maroon cloth with titling gilt to spine. 334 pp. With occasional illustrations. Minor spotting to outer edges.<br /> <br /> Erskine John. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Musik-Konzepte 14/15. Octavo. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 176 pp. With contributions by Wulf Konold Hans Mayer Gerd Zacher Friedhelm Krummacher Richard Hauser Heinz-Klaus Metzger Robert Schumann and Rainer Riehn. With musical examples. Slightly worn. Small bookseller's label to verso of upper wrapper. <br /> <br /> Erskine John. Song without Words: The Story of Felix Mendelssohn. New York: Julian Messner 1941. Octavo. Boards. 205 pp. Occasional illustrations. Browned. In worn dustjacket. <br /> <br /> Gage William Leonhard ed. and trans. Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from the German of W.A. Lampadius. With supplementary sketches by Sir Julius Benedict Henry F. Chorley Ludwig Rellstab Bayard Taylor R.W. Willis and J.S. Dwight. Additional Notes by C.L. Gruneisen . Second edition revised. London: William Reeves 1877. Octavo. Original publisher's full maroon cloth with titling gilt to spine. 243 pp. With frontispiece head-and-shoulders portrait of the composer. Publisher's catalogue and small bookseller's label laid down to front pastedown. Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; head and tail of spine frayed with minor loss. Uniform light browning; occasional foxing; first leaves partially detached. Inscription to head of half-title dated 1885.<br /> <br /> Hensel Sebastian. Die Familie Mendelssohn 1729-1847 nach briefen und Tagebuchern. Leipzig: Insel 1924. 2 volumes. Octavo. Full blue cloth. 417; 432 pp. With illustrative plates. <br /> <br /> Horton John. Mendelssohn Chamber Music. London: British Broadcasting Corporation 1972. Small octavo. Pictorial wrappers. 64 pp. Wrappers slightly worn.<br /> <br /> Horton John. 'The Musical Pilgrim.' The Chamber Music of Mendelssohn. London: Oxford University Press 1946. Small octavo. Illustrated wrappers. 65 pp. Binding slightly worn. Browned. <br /> <br /> Jost Christa. Mendelssohns Lieder ohne Worte. Tutzing: Hans Schneider 1988. Octavo. Full maroon cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 201 pp. With occasional illustrations. Frankfurter Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft edited by the Musikwissenschaftlichen Institut der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Band 14. <br /> <br /> Kaufman Schima. Mendelssohn: "A Second Elijah." New York: Tudor 1936. Large octavo. Full blue cloth. 353 pp. With occasional illustrations. Binding slightly worn; browning to endpapers and outer edges. <br /> <br /> Lampadius W.A. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Ein Gesammtbild seines Lebens und Wirkens . Mit dem Portrait und einem facsimilirten Briefe Felix Mendelssohn Barthholdy's. Leipzig: F.E.C. Leuckart 1886. Original publisher's printed wrappers with bust-length portrait of the composer to upper. 379 pp. Unopened. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled; several chips to edges with minor loss not affecting text; split at spine. <br /> <br /> Marek George R. Gentle Genius: The Story of Felix Mendelssohn. New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1972. Large octavo. Boards. 365 pp. Profusely illustrated. Outer edges spotted. In worn dustjacket.<br /> <br /> Mendelssohn Bartholdy Carl and Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy eds. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 . With a catalogue of all his musical compositions compiled by Dr. Julius Rietz. Translated by Lady Wallace. Second Edition. Philadelphia: Frederick Leypoldt F.W. Christern 1865. 12mo. Full black cloth titling gilt to spine. vi 421 pp. With musical examples. Binding slightly worn; binder's handstamp to rear pastedown. <br /> <br /> Mendelssohn Bartholdy Paul ed. Reisebriefe aus den Jahren 1830 bis 1832 von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Neunte Auflage. Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn 1882. Octavo. Full dark teal cloth with titling within decorative device gilt with ornately-blindstamped corners within blindstamped rules titling to spine gilt within decorative device gilt. 1f. recto blank verso half-title 1f. frontispiece recto blank verso photographic illustration of Mendelssohn on his death bed 1f. recto title verso blank v-vii foreword by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy dated Berlin March 1861 i blank 366 text 367-373 index i blank pp. 1f. publisher's advertisements. Tissue guard to photographic frontispiece. With occasional musical examples and illustrations in text. With autograph inscription signed "Hermann Mendelssohn" and other ownership notations. Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; upper board detached. Uniformly browned; some foxing; a few very small tears to blank edges. Volume 1 of 2 only. <br /> <br /> Moshansky Mozelle. Mendelssohn: His Life and Times. New York: Midas 1982. Large octavo. Full brown cloth. 144 pp. With occasional illustrations. Minor spotting to outer edges. Dustjacket slightly worn. <br /> <br /> Nichols Roger. Mendelssohn Remembered. London: Faber and Faber 1997. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. 258 pp. Wrappers slightly worn. <br /> <br /> Petitpierre Jacques. The Romance of the Mendelssohns. London: Dennis Dobson 1947. Octavo. Boards. 251 pp. Illustrated. In slightly worn dustjacket. <br /> <br /> Reissmann August 1825-1903. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Sein Leben und seine Werke . Zweite stark vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Mit Portrait in Stahlstich. Berlin: J. Guttentag D. Collin 1872. Octavo. Original publisher's full blindstamped maroon cloth with titling gilt to upper spine with titling and decorative stamping gilt marbled edges. 1f. recto blank verso fine bust-length portrait of Mendelssohn engraved and printed by Weger Leipzig 1f. recto title verso colophon 2ff. foreword to the first and second editions 1f. recto contents verso blank 1f. recto half-title verso blank 3-320 pp. With occasional musical examples. issue-guard to frontispiece. Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; head and tail of spine slightly frayed; endpapers slightly worn and soiled; handstamp "Groethuysen" to upper outer corner of free front endpaper and following leaf. Minor wear and browning; some leaves slightly creased. A German writer on music and composer Reissmann edited the Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon an important reference on 19th century music following Hermann Mendel's death in 1876. <br /> <br /> Richter Arnd. Mendelssohn: Leben - Werke - Dokumente. Mainz München: Scott Piper 1994. Octavo. Wrappers. 425 pp. Illustrated. <br /> <br /> Schmidt Christian Martin ed. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Kongreß-Bericht Berlin 1994. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel 1997. Octavo. Original publisher's green boards. 351 pp. With occasional illustrations and musical examples. <br /> <br /> Schneider Max F. ed. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Denkmal in Wort und Bild. Basel: Amerbach-Verlag 1947. Quarto. Original publisher's red printed boards with facsimile of Mendelssohn's signature gilt to upper and titling gilt to spine. 150 pp. 8ff. facsimiles. With tipped-in illustrations within text including portraits and facsimiles of autograph musical manuscripts. Binding slightly worn.<br /> <br /> Schulz Günter ed. Glückliche jugend Briefe des jungen Komponisten. Bremen: Jacobi 1971. Octavo. Full ivory linen with paper title label to spine. 252 pp. In slightly worn dustjacket.<br /> <br /> Selden-Goth G. ed. Felix Mendelssohn Letters . With 33 Illustrations. New York: Pantheon 1945. Large octavo. Original publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards. 372 pp. With occasional illustrative plates and musical examples in text. Binding slightly worn. Uniform light browning. <br /> <br /> Stratton Stephen S. Mendelssohn. With Illustrations and Portraits. London: J. M. Dent E. P. Dutton 1901. Octavo. 307 pp. Full maroon cloth. Illustrated. Binding worn; spine faded. Browned. 34857 $5<br /> <br /> Stresemann Wolfgang. Eine Lanze für Felix Mendelssohn. Berlin: Stapp 1984. Octavo. Full light gray cloth with titling in black to spine. 231 pp. With illustrations in text. <br /> <br /> Sutermeister Peter. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Briefe einer Reise durch Deutschland Italien und die Schweiz und Lebensbild von Peter Sutermesiter. Mit Aquarellen und Zeichnungen aus Mendelssohns Reiseskizzenbüchern. Zürich: Max Niehans Verlag 1958. Octavo. Full linen with titling gilt to spine. 384 pp. With occasional illustrative plates in color tipped-in and illustrations in text.<br /> <br /> Thomas Mathias. Das Instrumentalwerk Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdys; Eine systematisch-theoretische Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der zeitgenössischen Musiktheorie. Göttingen: Göttinger Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten 1972. Octavo. Original publisher's dark pink wrappers. 267 pp. With occasional annotations in both pencil and ink. Slightly worn; uniformly browned. Band 4. <br /> <br /> Thym Jürgen ed. Mendelssohn the Organ and the Music of the Past: Constructing Historical Legacies. Rochester: University of Rochester Press 2014. Octavo. Illustrated boards. 339 pp. With occasional illustrations. <br /> <br /> Werner Eric. Mendelssohn: A New Image of the Composer and His Age. Translated from the German by Dika Newlin. London: Collier-Macmillan 1963. Large octavo. Quarter black cloth with white boards. 545 pp. Binding slightly worn; lower joint split; slight browning to endpapers.<br /> <br /> Werner Eric. Mendelssohn: Leben und Werk in neuer Sicht. Zurich: Atlantis 1980. Large octavo. 635 pp. Occasional illustrations. Endpapers slightly browned; minor spotting to outer edges. <br /> <br /> Wolff Ernst. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Berlin: Schlesische Verlagsanstalt 1906. Large octavo. Full maroon textured cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 194 pp. 1f. recto bibliography verso contents 4ff. illustrations including facsimiles of autograph letters. With numerous illustrations within text including facsimiles some folding. Binding somewhat worn rubbed and bumped; joints frayed. Some signs of wear; rust <br /> marks from staples to some inner margins; several leaves detached. Berühmte Musiker Lebens- und Charakterbilder nebst Einführung in die Werke der Meister herausgegeben von Heinrich Reimann XVII. <br /> <br /> Worbs Hans Christoph. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Wesen und Wirken im Spiegel von Selbstzeugnissen und Berichten der Zeitgenossen. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang 1958. Octavo. Original publisher's full linen with decorative device gilt to upper titling to spine. 255 pp. With occasional illustrative plates. Binding slightly worn; upper hinge reinforced with clear tape; dustjacket worn. <br /> <br /> Worbs Hans Christoph. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1974. Octavo. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. 152 pp. Illustrated. unknown