William Alexander Silverman (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy in hardcover with very good jacket. Light shelf-wear. Jacket has some chipping at spin ends and fore-edge folds. Price written in ballpoint pen on front flap.

ENLARGED ILLUSTRATED EDITION 1981, octavo, illus glossy heavy card boards, illus eps & prelims, 262pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, light soiling to board edges, light bruising to board corners, light to moderate foxing to page edges).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Presumed first printing w/ no additional printings stated; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards in red cloth w/ black accents to spine - mild edge-wear present; Pages free of markings; Mild spotting to outer edge text-block; Un-clipped jacket gently edge-worn/rubbed w/ no significant flaws to disclose; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; A Good Plus copy, quite attractive. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and edgeworn, small tear to front upper panel though no loss, rear marked from shelving and handling, unclipped; blue cloth boards, slightly lightened at outer edges, corners sharp; binding is tight; pages are clean. ; 5.75 x 1.2 x 8.75 inches; 256 pages. …

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Brick red cloth covered boards with embossed titles and illustration at spine, corners straight but slightly cocked. Inscription from previous owner in pen at front free endpaper. Endpapers show staining from tape that has been removed. Book body clean and tight, pages lightly age toned. Illustrated dust jacket shows small dampstain to back cover, a small tear to front cover, price clipped, archival Brodart (with brown edges) protected.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 26pp. Brick red cloth-covered boards; black design and titles on spine; top text block edge sprayed black; illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Rubbed spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Free endpapers starting to tan; rippling of paper on front pastedown, top corner of most pages a little bumped, margined pen marks to pages 252 and 254, pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded, has 3cm closed tear at spine head, shelf wear, chipping to edges and joints, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.…

NY. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Silverman, William Alexander. The Violin Hunter. NY: The John Day Company, 1957, First edition, 256 pp. Illustrated dust wrapper, good with moderate wear to all extremies and several older tape repairs on the interior. Original light red cloth boards with blue titles and decoration to the spine. Bumping to the spine and corners, slight toning to endpapers. Foreword by Josef Gingold. Biography of Luigi Tarisio, the man responsible for saving some of the most important stringed instruments in history.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages . Cloth. The John Day Company. 1957. First Edition. Very Good in Good dust jacket Cloth The John Day Company 1957 First Edition.…