H C Colles Editor (35 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.

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.

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.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. This complete set is in five volumes plus the supplement (edited by Waldo Selden Pratt). The books are all bound in fine dark green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spines and lyre design stamped in gilt on the front covers. Light foxing on all edges. In Vol.1 there is creasing on pages 725-732 at the top corners and also in the supplement p v (Preface) to p.8 at the bottom corners. Light foxing on the margins of pages adjacent to the illustrations, and the text and illustrations are generally clean and unmarked. The dust jackets are in very good condition with small closed tears on some edges. In Volume I a piece of paper is missing on the bottom edge of the back panel near the corner. The original price for the set-"$25.00" is on the front flaps. Too large to ship internationally. The editor was an English music critic and for many years chief music critic for the Times of London. Limit of period covered was A.D. 1450.Profusely illustrated with portraits of composers, music and musical instruments in black and white.

235x155: xlvi,774, xxxvi,800, xxxvi,788, xxxvi,840, xxxvi,792, xvi,688pp. colour and black and white plates, navy cloth, gilt titles, Very Good, endpaper splitting over hinges in volumes 3 and 5. Weight: 9000g. This item is heavy and may require additional shipping .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Printing. Original dark green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spines, and small gilt decoration on front covers. Bindings lightly soiled w/ modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Tiny tear at top margins of several leaves in Vol. 3; small, faint dampstains at top edge of text block of Vol. 4. All volumes illustrated w/ b/w plates. Overall, a nice set.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Full set of 5 Volumes. Ex library hardbacks, no DJs. Usual stamps/markings. 1927 3rd Edition published by MacMillan & Co. edited by Colles. Volume I A to C - boards are worn & part of FEP removed; Volume II D to J boards are worn, front/rear hinges split & part of FEP removed; Volume III K to O boards are worn, front/rear hinges split & part of FEP removed; Volume IV P to Sonatina boards are worn, front hinge split & part of FEP removed; Volume V Song to Z boards are worn with some damage to rear of spine, front/rear hinges split & part of FEP removed. Very heavy set will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from Uk. 8G*.

Vol. I A-C xxxiii, 773pp.; Vol. II D-J xv, 800pp.; Vol. III K-O xxv, 787pp.; Vol. IV P-Sonatina xxv, 840pp.; Vol. V Song - Z xxv, 791 pages; Vol. VI - Supplement vii, 438 pp. Many photo illustrations on slick paper. 8vo. Dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Flyleaf missing in Volume 1. no jackets. Tight. Bright Sharp and clean all near Fine to Fine condition.