Published by New York: Collier Books / London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, (1979). (1979)., 1979
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Very good. - Oblong quarto [approximately 8 inches high by 10-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with light glue stains to the front wrap where a sticker has been removed. The wraps are bowed & the edges of the rear wrap are a bit darkened. xiv & 111 pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white and color. The contents are fine. Very good. With a foreword by James Marston Fitch.
Published by Collier Books/A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. & Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York & London, 1974
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Collier Books Edition: 1974. 255 pp. A great study or work or reading or research copy! Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Minimal, light, slight or very mild browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on cover pages. Small tear on bottom of front cover page.
Published by Collier Books and Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York and London, 1976
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
stiff paper wrappers. Photography (illustrator). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 204 pages. First Collier Books edition. Discusses cased photographs, tintypes, stereographs, card photographs, photographic prints, photographic literature, etc. Bookplate.
Published by Schirmer Books / Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York, New York / London, England, 1979
ISBN 10: 0028707109 ISBN 13: 9780028707105
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good condition. Softcover. LCC: 7784939.
Published by Schirmer Books/A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. & Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York & London, 1976
ISBN 10: 0028717007 ISBN 13: 9780028717005
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. James Hamilton (Photo) (illustrator). Copyright © 1976 by Katomo Ltd. 303 + pp. An excellent study or work or reading or research copy! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jacket suffers moderate to extensive wear all around.
Published by Collier Books-A Division of MacMillan Publishing Company, Inc./Collier MacMillan Publishers, New York/London, 1986
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Lloyd Wolf (illustrator). First Edition. 96 pp. Original pictorial wraps, moderately soiled w/ mild edge wear. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos. Contents very nice.
Published by Schirmer Books/A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. & Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York & London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0028724305 ISBN 13: 9780028724300
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sam Salant (Cover Design) (illustrator). 4th Edition. 614 + xvii pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers.
Published by Collier Books (New York); Collier Macmillan Publishers (London), 1974
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is the 1974 edition by Collier Books. Soft copy. Very good condition. Has an almost invisible but embossed seal of former owner on inside front page. Otherwise, clean all the way. (PM) "S"hannon.
Published by Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing / Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York / London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0020356803 ISBN 13: 9780020356806
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Collier Books edition. Trade paperback. 353pp. Illustrated with map drawings. Fine.
Published by New York : London : Schirmer Books ; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1975
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 143 pages; 1 score (143, [1] p.) : ill. ; 28 cm. A unique collection of songs, complete with excellent photo illustrations. Songs, principally by Bessie Smith; for voice and piano, with chord symbols."Transcribed from Bessie's recorded renditions"--P. [144]. Contents: It makes my love come down -- Long road -- Jailhouse blues -- Dirty no-gooder's blues -- Down in the dumps -- In the house blues -- Shipwreck blues -- Safety mamma -- Take me for a buggy ride -- Blue blues -- Wasted life blues -- Standin' in the rain blues -- Squeeze me -- Baby won't you please come home -- Pickpocket blues -- Backwater blues -- Young woman's blues -- See if I'll care -- New Orleans hop scop blues -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out -- Baby doll -- Please help me get him off my mind -- Reckless blues -- My man blues -- Poor man's blues -- Hard time blues -- Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do -- Cake walking babies from home -- Gimme a pigfoot -- Gulf Coast blues. Subjects: Bessie Smith -- Music -- Blues -- Blues singers -- Songbook. 2 Kg.
Published by Collier MacMillan Publishers / Collier Books, London & New York, 1986
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A slim collection of poems. A fine copy in printed wrappers.
Published by Collier Books, a Division of Macmillan Publishing Co', New York, Collier Macmillan Publishers, London, 1974, 1974
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
4to, paperback, 180pp. Good condition. General wear, bumped, creased, sunned at edges, text block edges age-toned and foxed. Pictures available on request.
Published by New York: Collier Books, MacMillan Publishing Co. , Inc. / London: Collier MacMillan Publishers, 1984
ISBN 10: 0020070705 ISBN 13: 9780020070702
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. A fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 0 pages; Description: 214 p. Ill. With photographs. Subjects: Middler, Bette. Singers - United States - Biography. 1 Kg.
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Published by New York, Collier Books / London, Collier Macmillan Publishers 1975., 1975
4 ° 221 S. mit sehr vielen s/w-Fotografien. Orig. - Broschur. Einband leicht berieben. Gut erhalten.
Published by New York : London : Schirmer Books ; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1975
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 143 pages; 1 score (143, [1] p.) : ill. ; 28 cm. A unique collection of songs, complete with excellent photo illustrations. Songs, principally by Bessie Smith; for voice and piano, with chord symbols."Transcribed from Bessie's recorded renditions"--P. [144]. Contents: It makes my love come down -- Long road -- Jailhouse blues -- Dirty no-gooder's blues -- Down in the dumps -- In the house blues -- Shipwreck blues -- Safety mamma -- Take me for a buggy ride -- Blue blues -- Wasted life blues -- Standin' in the rain blues -- Squeeze me -- Baby won't you please come home -- Pickpocket blues -- Backwater blues -- Young woman's blues -- See if I'll care -- New Orleans hop scop blues -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out -- Baby doll -- Please help me get him off my mind -- Reckless blues -- My man blues -- Poor man's blues -- Hard time blues -- Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do -- Cake walking babies from home -- Gimme a pigfoot -- Gulf Coast blues. Subjects: Bessie Smith -- Music -- Blues -- Blues singers -- Songbook. 2 Kg.
Published by Collier Macmillan Publishers / Collier Books, London & New York, 1971
ISBN 10: 0020117000 ISBN 13: 9780020117001
Seller: Washburn Books, Pateley Bridge, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Short history of American Indian beadwork, with directions for beading and 132 authentic Indian patterns. 63pp, illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and photographs and colour plates. Minor wear to edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Published by New York, New York, United States of America / London, England, United Kingdom: Schirmer Books / Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1984
ISBN 10: 0028717600 ISBN 13: 9780028717609
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. on dustjacket: significant yellowing on side panels, and some fading and color rubbing on the interior.
Published by Schirmer Books; London, Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0028718410 ISBN 13: 9780028718415
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
xxv, 816p., dj.
Published by Schirmer Books; London, Collier Macmillan PUblishers, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0028730607 ISBN 13: 9780028730608
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
xvi, 462p., b/w illus., dj.
Published by New York: Schirmer Books / London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, (1978). (1978)., 1978
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Very good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY EGON GARTENBERG - Octavo, black cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is very slightly rubbed & its spine is faded with a short tear to its head. There is a tiny gray mark to its rear panel. x & 406 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition.Inscribed by the author to musicologist Bea Friedland in the year of publication on the front endpaper.
Published by Collier Books - Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York - London,, 1975
ISBN 10: 0020008201 ISBN 13: 9780020008200
Seller: FIRENZELIBRI SRL, Reggello, FI, Italy
Condition: MOLTO BUONO. Biography and Notes by Peter Hunter-Salomon. Translated by Sheila Tobias. A portfolio of photographs from the 1920s and 1930s of the great and near-great, by the man for whom the phrase candid camera was coined. cm.21,5x27,8, pp.XIV,(2),221,(3), testo su 2 colonne, ca. 250 foto in nero ft., NOTA:Timbro ex libris rosso al piede della III di copertina. Copia in ottimo stato. / New York - London, Collier Books - Collier Macmillan Publishers cm.21,5x27,8, pp.XIV,(2),221,(3), testo su 2 colonne, ca. 250 foto in nero ft., brossura, copertina fig. (Timbro ex libris rosso al piede della III di copertina.) brossura, copertina fig. (Timbro ex libris rosso al piede della III di copertina.).
Published by New York : London: Schirmer Books ; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1990, 1990
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
worn dust-jacket with a few small tears, cover price $24.95, good worn used copy, hardccover with black spine, brown boards, glue binding visible at end of photo section, gently read copy, about 5 pages are double printed but remain fully readable, apparently a printing error. INSCRIBED on half-title page For Robert - My beloved colleague in the Coffin league - with much affection, and SIGNED Shirlee (perhaps a reference to Berton Coffin, mentioned in acknowledgments p. xvi). EMMONS, SHIRLEE. Tristanissimo: the authorized biography of heroic tenor Lauritz Melchior. Foreword by Birgit Nilsson. New York : London: Schirmer Books ; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1990, 1st printing number line starting with 1, xvi, 462pp., . CONTENTS: Da Capo : "En Køben havner Dreng" (1890-1905 -- Training as a baritone (1905-1916) -- Metamorphosis : baritone into tenor (1916-1922) -- A Bayreuth beginning (1923-1924) -- Frin Bayreuth beginning (1923-1924) -- From Bayreuth to the world (1924-1927) -- The metropolitan debut (1926-1927) -- Learning Tristan (1927-1930) -- Tristanissimo (1929-1931) -- The wagnerian ensemble at the met (1931-1935) -- The golden years (1935-1939) -- Hitler interferes (1939-1941) -- Another legendary partnership : Melchoir and Traubel (1941-1946) -- From opera star to movie star (1943-1946) -- The hottest dane since Beowulf (1946-1949) -- A dream unrealized (1949-1950) -- Melchoir and the Heldentenor crisis (1960-1972) -- "Leb' wohl, mein Held" (1973-1974). 9780028730608 ISBN 0028730607.
Published by Collier Books/Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York/London, 1976
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Robert Cuevas (illustrator). First Edition. [nice clean copy, just minor wear to both book and jacket]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Wager on the ffep: "To ______, / who has always been so / kind to giant apes and / creators of all sizes / Best / Walter." The big ape tells his side of the story. "Piercing the sham, ripping off the veils, and lying a lot to get even, the planet's suavest and most sympathetic simian lets it all hang out." Issued simultaneously in paperback and hardcover. Signed by Author.
Published by New York : London : Schirmer Books ; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1975
Seller: BücherBirne, Kaufbeuren, Germany
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Erste Auflage. Buch in einem altersentsprechendem, aber in noch gut erhaltenem Zustand. Der Einband zeigt Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren und ist an den Kanten etwas bestoßen, bzw. berieben, ansonsten aber unbeschädigt. Der Buchdeckel ist nachgedunkelt. Die Seiten sind sauber, knickfrei und unbeschädigt. Keine Eintragungen, oder Markierungen. Papier altersbedingt nachgedunkelt. Keine Stockflecken. Buchblock und Gelenke intakt. Buch ist geruchsfrei. Insgesamt ein ordentlich und gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur mäßigen und in der Regel nur äußerlichen Alters-/Gebrauchsspuren. ---- Versandhinweise : Versand innerhalb von 24 Stunden. Lieferung erfolgt in der Regel innerhalb von 2-7 Werktagen. Kostenlose Rücknahme bei Nichtgefallen innerhalb von 14 Tagen. Rechnung mit MwSt-Ausweis. ---. nein.
Published by New York-London, Schirmer Books-Collier MacMillan Publishers. 1974, 1974
ISBN 10: 0029077001 ISBN 13: 9780029077009
Seller: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands
Original publisher's dark-red cloth hardback, blue & white title spine and frontcover, 3rd revised & enlarged edition [1964 & 1967], large 8vo: xvi, [ij], 526pp., index authors - editors - reviewers, index subjects, index titles. Very fine copy.
Published by Schirmer Books, a Division of Collier MacMillan Publishers, New York and London, 1970
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Soft. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Printed pages all in excellent condition, though this is an ex-library copy with usual stamps to the endpapers. Covers lightly creased and rubbed, and front cover has a 2" tear. Size: 8vo. Ex-Library.
Published by New York: Collier Books & London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, [1975]., 1975
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
4to. pp. 221. profusely illus. in b/w. biblio. index. wrs. (back cover creased, rubbed, head & foot of spine bumped).
Published by Schirmer Books / Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York/ London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0028726901 ISBN 13: 9780028726908
Softcover. Blue wraps with gold lettering; xvii, 475 pp, music. Contents: pt. 1. Expression. Ideas of expression -- Topics -- pt. 2. Rhetoric. Periodicity -- Harmony -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Texture : basic premises -- Texture : chamber music -- Texture : orchestral music -- Texture : vocal music -- Performance -- pt. 3. Form. Small two-reprise forms -- Sonata form -- Couplet form -- Forms of the learned style -- Aria -- Concerto -- Fantasia : introductive, recitative -- Multimovement cycles : composite forms -- pt. 4. Stylistic perspectives. National styles -- High and low styles : serious and comic -- Mozart -- Haydn, Sonata in E flat major -- Beethoven and the classic style. Good (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to wraps and block. Pages are otherwise clean.).
Published by Collier Books-A Division of MacMillan Publishing Company, Inc./Collier MacMillan Publishers, New York/London, 1976
ISBN 10: 0020800800 ISBN 13: 9780020800804
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 253 pp. Original red wraps w/ mild edge wear. Lightly soiled. Faint dampstain to outer margin of first few pages. Illust. w/ b/w comics.
Published by Collier Books-A Division of MacMillan Publishing Company, Inc./Collier MacMillan Publishers, New York/London, 1976
ISBN 10: 0020800908 ISBN 13: 9780020800903
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 387 pp. Original blue wraps w/ mild edge wear. Lightly soiled. Illust. w/ b/w comics. Contents nice.