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1873WRCLIT84154Boston & New York: Lee and Shepard 1873. 221pp. Gilt brown cloth. Frontis and portraits. 1874 female ownership inscription on verso of front free endsheet extremities worn and sunned modest soiling slight damp mark to covers at top of spine slightly affecting text block at extreme upper gutter stain to sectional music title following leaf and few fore-edges but a good sound copy. First edition of this popular Seward beginning on p. 165. Among the most important of the several contemporary books on the Jubilee Singers and their tours. HORN 783. WORK p.436. Lee and Shepard hardcover books
1866314319Philadelphia 1866. Broadside. Illus. 12 x 6-1/2. About fine. Broadside. Illus. 12 x 6-1/2 unknown books
186533985Chicago: Root and Cady 1865. First Edition. 239 1pp. Quarto printed boards faded and soiled. Lether spine show wear. Chicago Prefire Imprints 930. No copies on the internet Root and Cady hardcover books
189747416San Francisco: Hearst Corporation 1897. 4p. sheet music 10.5x14 inches even toning otherwise very good illustrated with a color drawing of a well-dressed African American couple. "I sends da lady flowers an' I'se gwine to claim her hand / shouted the new Darktown bully in a sassy tone / An' I want yo' low down niggas to clearly understand / that I's here tonight to see this lady home." A razor fight follows and the song's hero defeats this bully for the favors of Sarraphine "the dusky queen of stage-land." Aspden a supporter of the Socialist Labor Party was a regular performer in 1890s San Francisco; an 1896 article in the San Francisco Call notes that she was to perform violin and sing for a May Day event co-sponsored by several unions in which "The procession will be headed by a band and over the column will float the red flag of the socialists. The latter disclaim that the crimson banner is an emblem of blood violence and anarchy and say it is the emblem of peace and universal brotherhood.". Hearst Corporation unknown books
186671307New York: C. M. Tremaine 1866. Paperback. Good. Sheet Music 5p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 34cm. Moderate foxing and some offsetting. Black and white lithograph by H. C. Eno on front cover of a two story "cottage." <br/><br/> C. M. Tremaine paperback books
183971306Baltimore: G. Willig Jr. 1839. Paperback. Good. Sheet Music 3p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 35 cm. Foxing and a short tear around edges. Black and white illustration signed "Swett" of a sailing vessel flying the American flag on center portion of front cover. "The poetry written by the Honble Mrs. Norton: Sung with rapturous applause by Mr. Howard; Composed & arranged for the piano forte by Alexander Ball." <br/><br/> G. Willig, Jr. paperback books
1899008457Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company 1899. Near Fine small dent at fore edge of spine. Publisher's blue cloth with patriotic gilt tooled fromnt board and spine bright and lovely. top gilt. Contains accounts of the inspiration and history of 25 great popular songs including Yankee Doodle Columbia the Gem of the Ocean Star Spangled Banner John Browns Body Battle Hymn of the Republic Dixie and the song "Hail Columbia" by Joseph Hopkinson at page 67. Up until the 1890s "Hail Columbia" was played as the de facto national anthem of the United States. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Burrows Brothers Company Hardcover books
1900000503Chicago and New York: The George M. Hill Company 1900. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Denslow William M. 4to. 84 pp. with Denslow's inimitable illustrations. Soilage to pictorial boars and shelfwear along edges. Paper over board worn through in corner. Spine strip expertly replaced and inner joint also expertly reinforced. Now tight. Bookplate on FEP. Pages toned generally clean. Overall an attractive copy. <br/><br/> The George M. Hill Company hardcover books
1814006921Leipzig: J. A. G. Weigel 1814. RARE treatise on the metres of Pindar. August Boeckh or Bockh 1785-1867 was a German classical scholar and antiquarian and the founder of classical and ancient studies. Near Fine handsomely bound in recent marbled boards prior owner bookplate front paste down small prior owner stamps title page and verso of title page. Pagination: 582 p. folding table. Page block quite clean and lovely. . Marbled Boards. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. J. A. G. Weigel Hardcover books
1840358311840. Folio. Contemporary half dark brown leather with marbled boards gilt rules to spine marbled endpapers. 90 pp. Contents list and notes to upper and lower flyleaves pagination in pencil to upper right corners. <br/><br/>Notated primarily in a single hand on 12-stave J. & F. Harwood London music paper with decorative border of small interlocked circles; illustration of the coast of Dover to recto of first leaf. A few of the songs marked with dates and place names.<br/><br/>With previous owner's name to upper flyleaf: "Margaret Keep January 26th 1841."<br/><br/>A large collection of popular songs and dances in manuscript some with composer attribution given here in parentheses most without. <br/><br/>Contents pages 1-62:<br/>The Jenny Jones Waltz The Water Witch Quadrille & La Belle Barbiere German Waltz Johann Strauss The Better Laird Miss E. Davis In the Days When We Went Gypsying J. N. Sporle The Gondolette Alexander Lee The Gypsey's Wild Chaunt Kathleen Mavorneen Woodman spare that tree! The Bridal Ring Smile Again my Bonnie Lassie The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Miss Hemans Oh No! We Never Mention Her The Deep Blue Sea C. Arnold The Angels Whisper the following 7 pieces not listed in contents Come and let us be happy! Glorious Apollo Sam. Webbe Life is a bumper Wainwright Eve's Lamentation I Dreamed that I Dwelt in Marble Halls M.W. Balfe The Wishing Gate By the Sad Sea Waves Her Majesty's own Waltz Johann Strauss Waltz Waltzer pour le Piano Forte Waltz par Johann Strauss List to the Convent Bell Roy's Wife of Advallock O Nanny Will Thou Gang with Me The Campbells Are Coming L'Amour Musard Waltz Strasburg Waltz Strauss Elizabethan Waltz Waltz Waltz Hero Froerich Waltz L'Eté The Alpine Waltz Charmant Walzer Johann Strauss Monte Video Waltz Joseph Launer Waltz Beethoven Waltz from Fra Diavolo by Auber Strauss Waltz Strauss Moabe favorite Waltz Waltz Strauss Waltz Gallopade Huiloch of Keelock Gallopade The All Black Quadrille Coal Black Rose the next 2 pieces not listed in contents The Laird of Cockpen Ave Sanctissima or Evening Song of the Virgin What Fairylike Music The next 2 not listed Sir Roger de Coverly Tudor Quadrille St. Patricks Day the following not listed Lady Shaftsbury's Red The Fixe Fly Polka Les Echoes Musard Julius's English Quadrille Julius's Scotch Quadrille Julius's Royal English Quadrille Spanish Waltz La Polka Quadrille Ronsard Les Diamans de la Couronne Musard Deutsche Lust Waltzer Strauss The Post Horn Galop Waltz Beethoven The Bridal Polka Bonnie Dundee Annie Laurie I'd Mourn the Hopes that Leave Me Moore Search Through the Wide World. <br/><br/>Contents pp. 63-90<br/>Mostly sacred music including a collection of canticles responses and other chants in English choral style by various composers: Attwood Stouldsworth Jackson Soaper Depuis Hornington Jones Battishill Corfe Robertson Crotch Stafford Weber Purcell and Kelly. A selection of hymns: From Egypt lately come Why those fears Lord for thy tender mercies take What will they say in England J.W. Hobbs Bless the Lord Mozart. A few secular pieces within this section including The Hay is in the Mow Scott Gatty The Fairy Tempter Forget not your Janice Teach or Teach me to Forget Logan Braes.<br/><br/>Two songs included in contents not found: Long Long Ago The Voice of Soci.<br/><br/>Binding worn bumped and rubbed; split at hinges. Slightly browned; some showthrough; a few leaves soiled and faded. An interesting collection of contemporary popular tunes dances and sacred music. "One of hundreds of similar volumes compiled by women during the nineteenth century these albums contain predominantly pieces by European male composers yet nonetheless reflect the role of music in women's lives. Musical accomplishment was a mark of the well-bred woman and the piano in particular was most often her instrument of choice." Robin Rausch from Women in Music at memory.loc.gov. unknown books
186071302Boston: Oliver Ditson; etc. 1860. Paperback. Good. Sheet Music 5p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 34cm. Moderate foxing and browning. The copyright line at the bottom of the cover is very faint so we may have misread the date. Circular color lithograph on front of a young woman wearing the jockey hat and feather. This was also issued uncolored according to the two different prices listed on the cover. <br/><br/> Oliver Ditson; etc. paperback books
1888D11810Brooklyn 1888. Paperback. Very Good. Staple-bound printed wraps; 8vo; pp. 10 with ads and illustrations. A bit brittle with some light chipping along the edges. In archival folder. <br/><br/> paperback books
189246173NY: Witmark 1892. 4to pp. 32. Color printed wraps. Good. Witmark unknown books
1861007954New York: Firth Pond & Co 1861. First Edition. Sheet Music. Very Good. Complete: 6 pages including the cover. Early Civil War music with a terrific cover showing five black misfit volunteers in various milita and zouave uniforms. Slightly trimmed and with nice corners and old tape binding so probably from an old bound collection of sheet music. Light marginal soiling. This comic song promises defeat for Great Britain should "John Bull" attempt to intervene in the war on the side of the South. Made very popular by Bryant's Minstrels. Firth, Pond & Co unknown books
183319050406Boston: James Loring 1833. Hardcover. Good . Sixteenmo size 109 pp. Lowell Mason 1792-1872 was an influential figure in music education and church music in the United States during the nineteenth century. He composed many hymnal arrangements including those of "Joy to the World" and "Nearer My God to Thee" and wrote this book to teach thorough base often styled "thoroughbass" to children. The book is replete with musical notations illustrating the lessons which are written as a discussion between a teacher and pupil an approach to teaching that Mason felt important with this particular branch of music theory.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter navy leather with marbled brown paper boards gilt lettering and rules on the spine musical notations interspersed throughout the text; sixteenmo size 6" by 3.75" pagination: i-v vi-viii 2 pagination skips 10-110.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is a bit better than good with clean boards a strong square text block with solid hinges and no prior owner markings; overall rubbing to the edges joints and corners light soiling and foxing throughout the interior pages front free endpaper is creased at the top right corner and has a small closed tear to the fore-edge the gutter at the first page of the Preface is starting to crack but text block is still strong and there are two small spots of red sealing wax on each of the paste-down endpapers we surmise the remains of a long-gone homemade "dust jacket".<br/><br/>___CITATION: OCLC no. 19825763 and 191249393 which records 7 libraries total with this 1833 edition the earliest noted in OCLC; not in ESTC by this title. No auction records and only one other copy online ex-library as of this writing.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. James Loring hardcover books
1807CAT000099Paris: Capelle et Renand 1807. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. A mixed set 11 volumes published 1807-1817. Volumes 2-10 in full acid calf worn spines dry and chipped one board detached others loose volume 1 in later half vellum and volume 11 in original wraps worn and chipped. A complete run of this annual of food and drink associated poetry and song. Volume 4 with a portrait of Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers who wrote most of the songs laid down and each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Size: 12mo duodecimo. 11-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Music. Inventory No: CAT000099. Capelle et Renand hardcover books
184371295Boston: Oliver Ditson 1843. Paperback. Good. Sheet Music 5p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 35cm. Moderate foxing around edges. Black & white illustration on front cover of a thin-waisted young woman in an off-the-shoulder evening dress. <br/><br/> Oliver Ditson paperback books
18541332641London: J. Alfred Novello 1854. Hardcover. Octavo; G-; Hardcover; Spine black without print; Boards in blue cloth with gold print series title and decorative frame blind stamped on front and rear tattering to corners and spine caps fading and shelfwear to front and rear toning to spine; Text block has tanning to endpapers label on front flyleaf cracked front and rear hinges intermittent spine breaks age-toning to paper; 128 pages illustrated printed music. 1332641. FP New Rockville Stock. J. Alfred Novello hardcover books
1840007877London: Printed for the Percy Society 1840. SCARCE in 1840 First Edition. Bound in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards the spine ornately tooled in gilt matching marbled end pages and page edges. Very Good the boards rubbed light rubbing to morocco at tips. . First Edition. Half Morocco over Marbled Boar. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for the Percy Society Hardcover books
1895005836Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Lithographic Co. 1895. First edition. Card. String ties. . Very Good. 17 by 17 cm. Unpaginated 84 pp. with program notes cast excerpts many photos and illustrations some of which underlay text ads etc. This is an especially elaborate and attractive souvenir program for an "amateur" theatrical this one being a spoof modeled after Shakespeare's original. Scarce with no copies of this program listed on OCLC First Search and a single listing at Washington State University for the considerably shorter program for 1893's theatrical. LIght soiling of the cover. Otherwise tight clean. <br/><br/> Lowman & Hanford Lithographic Co. unknown books
186453713Augusta GA: Blackmar & Bro 1864. One of "The Exotics: Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil.". 4to. 3 pp. Title page printed in green "B. Duncan & Co. Lith Coilumbia S.C.". Parrish & Willingham 7309. Printed self-wrappers. Foxed else very good. 627. <br/><br/> Blackmar & Bro unknown books
186153712New Orleans LA: A.E. Blackmar & Bro 1861. One of "Blackmar & Bro.'s Parlour Gems by Favorite Authors". 4to. 7 pp. Parrish & Willingham 7383 locating five copies Georgia Johns Hopkins Duke Brown Tennessee State Library. Disbound old staining through text. A little insect damage to several leaves not affecting text. Good copy only. 626. <br/><br/> A.E. Blackmar & Bro unknown books
186131005Augusta Ga: Published by Blackmar & Bro 1861. 1st edition thus i.e. the Ga imprint Harwell p. 107; Parrish & Willingham 6890. Not in Dichter & Shapiro EARLY AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC though other Blackmare & Bro. sheet music publications are listed. Printed self-wrappers with ornament illustrated front wrapper. General wear & light foxing with short tear to fore-edge. Early penciled gift inscription "Clemence Bell / from / C. H. R. underscore" at top of front wrapper. A VG copy. 4 pp 1 sheet folded. Lithographed by B. Duncan & Co. Columbia S.C. Music pp 2-3. Last page blank. 7 stanzas of musical scores w/ lyrics followed by 3 additional verses of lyrics. 12" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/>Capers formerly of the "Macon Volunteers" who as a private took part in the Indian Wars in Florida 1836. In the Civil War he was in command of Co. G 1st LA Heavy Artillery Regiment of the C. S. A.; in July 1863 he was promoted to Major seeing service at Vicksburg and elsewhere in the South. Published by Blackmar & Bro unknown books
186331006Richmond VA / Columbia S.C.: Lithographed and Published by Geo. Dunn & Compy / Julian A. Selby 1863. 1st edition Harwell p. 119; Parrish & Willingham 7084. Not in Dichter & Shapiro EARLY AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC though 3 other Dunn Civil War sheet music publications are listed as is one other Selby. Printed self-wrappers with illustrated front wrapper. General wear & light foxing. Early gift inscription "C. H. Bell from / R. Anderson" at top of front wrapper. A VG copy. 4 pp 1 sheet folded. Music pp 2-3; last page blank. 7 stanzas of musical scores w/ lyrics followed by 1 additional verse of lyrics. 12-1/8" x 9-1/2" <br/><br/> Lithographed and Published by Geo. Dunn & Compy / Julian A. Selby unknown books
185071304Boston: Oliver Ditson 115 Washington St 1850. Paperback. Good. Sheet Music 5p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 34cm. Light to moderate foxing and soiling. Trimmed at bottom removing any copyright date. Color lithograph on front of a semi-nude Native American young woman with strategically placed necklaces and other accoutrements. The lithograph is by J. H. Bufford's from an engraving by Masury & Sillsbee of Boston. Ditson moved from 115 Washington St. in the mid to late 1850s so this uncommon piece of sheet music must date before that move. <br/><br/> Oliver Ditson, 115 Washington St paperback books
