Colles Editor (41 results)

Cloth Decorated Hardback. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Printing - Stated. Green cloth. A nice tight copy with an old gift presentation frm the "band mothers". Light uniform fading. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Owner name on endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Yellowed pages with sides roughened. Name in ink on top of inside front page. Wear to ends of spine. ; The Music of the Masters.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches, 787 pages, illustrated, K-O. Ex library, apart from bookplate and pockets inside the cover, few library markings. Covers have only slight wear, slight rubbing to corners, bright gilding to front cover, gilt faded on spine. Hinges tight, pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches, 773 pages, illustrated, A-C. Ex library, apart from bookplate and pockets inside the cover, few library markings. Covers have only slight wear, some rubbing to corners, bright gilding to front cover, gilt faded to spine. Hinges tight, pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; Volume 3 only, including K to O; 3rd edition; fading and shelf wear to exterior; fading to pages; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; Volume 2 only, including D to J; 3rd edition; fading and shelf wear to exterior; fading to pages; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. ASIN: B0017VLB3Q Hardcover; supplementary volume only; fading and shelf wear to exterior; fading to pages; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; Volume 5 only, including Song to Z; 3rd edition; fading and shelf wear to exterior; fading to pages; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A very good copy in a good, edge worn and faded jacket. ; B&W halftones; 8vo ; 773 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. 1949 Third Edition. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. Volume 5 only. 791p.

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. 1949 Third Edition. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. Volume 4 only. 840p.

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. 1949 Third Edition. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. Volume 3 only. 787p.

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. 1949 Third Edition. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. Volume 2 only. 800p.

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. 1949 Third Edition. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. Volume 1 only. 773p.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 36 pages. J Fry "Brahms's Conception of the Scherzo in Chamber Music" / Hubert Fiss "Score-Reading- A Counter-View to that of Mr Ralph Wood" / Professor Igor Boelza "Nikolai Miaskovsky's New Orchestral Works" / Frank Howes - Henry Cole Colles - A Tribute" / Godfrey Sceats "About Organs" (M13).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Fourth Edition. VOLUME I. 773 pages. No dustjacket. Very clean dark blue hardback binding with moderate wear to boards' corners and lighter wear to spine-ends and boards' bottom edge. Ggold-coloured titles to spine. Page-edges moderately browned o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Third Edition - Reprint. 787 pages. No dustjacket. Ex-college library with six stamps to front end-papers, one to rear end-paper and half-title page. WORN - fraying to spine-ends, to top outer hinges have been repaired, small fray to corners' tips, some markings to covers. Inner hinges are both cracked with a wobble, page-edges age yellowed with a couple of biro marks, one or two marginal lines, otherwise pages clean and unimpeded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Volumes 1-5 published 1947; Volume 6 published 1944. Six octavo volumes bound in dark blue cloth. B&W illustrations. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Third Edition, Reprinted. Original dark blue stippled cloth with gilt titling, stout 8vo, 5 volume set. Illustrated with colour and bw plates. Top edges gilt. Circa 800pp per volume. This is a lovely bright set with unblemished cloth, bright gilt titling, and crisp clean texts. Very slight rubbing in one or two places to edges but this remains an excellent fine set. When wrapped this set will weigh c8000g, and so the shortfall in postage at cost over the default quotation for 1000g will be given on enquiry or at time of order. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Five Hardcover Volumes in Good Condition. Third Edition with new material 1927. Reissued 1935 This is the Eighteenth Printing, 1953. 96 plates in colour and black & white. These volumes explore in detail the structure and peculiarities of the music of the musicians herein, of the nature and history of the instruments on which the music is performed, and of the biographies and characteristics of its composers--of all such particulars that may throw light on the rise, progress and present (when written) condition of the ART OF MUSIC. Ex-High School Library Volumes. Lib card and stamps on endpapers and text edges, numbers on spine. Binding of clean dark green cloth with gilt imprinted Lyre on the front of each volume, gilt titles and decoration on spine. Volumes are generally clean and tight. Boards are in generally good shape. Clean, some corners bumped with some fraying. Vol I: spine head has small tears in the cloth; Vol II: upper corner is scuffed and inner hinge is cracked, backstrap is loosened, binding tight; Vol IV upper front corner scuffed up; Vol V: the boards a little bowed. The interior of the books are clean, unmarked and untorn. 1953, Macmillan, New York, New York, USA.

5 vols. Large 8vo. Blue Cloth, very slightly worn.

5 vols. + Supplementary volume. Large 8vo Cloth, backstrip faded and some water damage to backstrip, otherwise a very good set. Plates and some music examples.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: George Routledge & Sons, no date [1908]. First edition. Small 8vo. xliii,[i],371.[1]pp. Original blue cloth, with elaborate gilt decoration to spine. Bump to head of spine. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third edition, edited 1948, Five volumes, plus 1944 supplementary volume and 1948 American supplement, revised. Minor flaws on bindings, tight hinges, slight yellowing on page tops. $6 will be added to the shipping charge because of weight.

5 vols. Large 8vo 773, 800, 787, 840, 791 pages. Blue cloth, lightly bumped at foot of backstrips, in original chipped paper d/ws. Page edges slightly browned and previous owner's name stamp to front endpapers else internally clean. Plates and music examples.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. B/w Illustrations & Engraving (illustrator). Third Edition, Later Printing. 5 volumes, complete as issued, PLUS the "American Supplement" of 1944 - together 6 volumes, sold as a set. Original green cloth stamped in gilt (slight hints of wear only). A solid set of a standard and celebrated reference set. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Six volumes. 108 plates, with numerous textual illustrations and musical notations. New York: Macmillan, 1953-1957. Third edition, together with the revised edition of the American supplement. Expansive and essential musical reference, focusing primarily on classical music and musicians, but also including a fair amount of information on opera, world music, and musical instruments. Small ink stamp to the front flyleaves, with some minor wrinkling to the top corner of p.527-536 in v.5. Small tear to the spine head of v.2 and to the rear board of v.5. Jackets sunned along the spines and extremities, and slightly edgeworn, particularly v.5, with some general minor chips and tears; otherwise a sound and serviceable, very good set in a worn publisher's box, which is splitting along the joints and reinforced along the rear seams with tape.

3rd edn. 5 vols. Tall 8vo (9¼ x 6¼ ins). Original gilt lettered half green morocco (lightly rubbed at edges of spines and corners - otherwise VG). Pp. various, illus with coloured and b&w plates (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper of vol I).