Robert Braine (9 results)

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good Minus. Vol. 47, No. 1. "A Monthly Journal for the Musician, the Music Student and All Music Lovers." This publication was founded in 1883 and flourished until 1957. CONTENTS: Musical Education in the Home (Ross); The Supremacy of Personality; Venice - the City of Dreams; Phrasing - A Key to Technical Problems (Chiapusso); What is a Prelude? (Chiapusso); Why an Investment in Music Lessons Always Pays (Ruckmick); Turning Failure into Fortune (Spencer); An Appreciation of Schubert (Mencken); The Cornet and Trumpet in Band and Orchestra (Grabel); Music for [Special Needs] Children of the Public Schools (van de Wall); The Teachers' Round Table (Better Use of Pedal, etc.); The Singer's Etude - Improving the Head Tone (Rimmer); The Organist's Etude - (Weller); The Violinist's Etude (Braine); Junior Etude. 76 pages. CONDITION: A solidly-bound Very Good Minus copy with noticeable shelf-wear to the cover edges and corners, plus a split at the spine-edge bottom - now discreetly repaired/reinforced with near-invisible library archival tape. The interior pages, however, are clean, negligibly age-faded, and unmarked. This rather scarce issue is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag with archival backing board.

Sheet music. Condition: Good. 5 pages. [box 10.12] Original Sheet Music. Name of previous owner written on front cover. No internal markings. Clean pages. Light edge wear. Scarce. Out of print.

very good #2 issue,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 7 pages. (M14).

Sheet music. Condition: Fair. Sheet music, 9 by 12 with 9 pages. The covers have some mild shelf wear with a bit of darkening, cover spine is split about half way. The sheets are sound, clean and unmarked. ; Op. 7.; X X.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to the exterior, else near fine. For medium voice and piano. Plate number, 34427. *OCLC* locates a single holding.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Outer bifolium separated along the fold but both leaves are present, minor edgewear, and the exterior toned, a complete but good only copy. For voice (soprano or tenor) and piano. Plate imprint, "A.P.S. 14109-4." Printed on the front cover is, "professional copy." A musical setting for this poem by the Italian silent film actor, Rudolph Valentino. *OCLC* locates only a single holding of this piece and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade.

[1] pp.; 9 x 12.5 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Single sided card / announcement published in conjunction with show held March 27 - April 26, 2003. Exhibition featured Mark Dion in collaboration with Bob Braine, Jackie MacAllister, Nils Norman, J. Morgan Puett, Alexis Rockman, Jason Simon, William Schefferine and Robert Williams. Fine. As issued, clean and unmarked.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Messages From Mars by Robert D. Braine (Donohue Edition) Rare A copy with wrappers detached from spine. Considerable wear to wrappers and spine. Binding intact. Fragile browned pages. Donohue Edition. No publication date stated [1892]. Wrappers with red lettering and pictorial design in black, gray, and white. 259 pp. Adverts inside front wrapper. "An imaginative and original science fiction novel in which the protagonist finds a lost race on an island in the Pacific. Their religion revolves round a remarkable plant which has foliage which acts as a powerful lens. Through the medium of this, communication takes place with the super-scientific civilization on Mars, and much of the book is devoted to a description of the life and technology there." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 40. BOOK.