Early Keyboard Instruments Beginnings Year by James Philip (21 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library hardcover book, with dust jacket. Book has some light reader wear. Library stamps and stickers are present.

Condition: Fair. 1960. Reprinted. 153 pages. No dust jacket. Red and white cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Ink stamp inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Ex-library with usual markings.filing tab on spine and card folder on inside cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1967 edition of a 1930 title. Original pictorial dustjacket age-marked and chipped at the edges (repaired). Red cloth age-marked. Pages a little foxed at the top edge, internally clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 153 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Institutional stamps on endpapers; Chips & wear at dust jacket extremities; 163 pp & 65 plates.

Hardcover. First Edition. With numerous illustrations. Some light foxing. Paper boards with half buckram spine, lettered in gilt, browned with some staining. Ow very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. Reprint Edition. 153 pgs. Bibliography. b/w illustrs. A gently used copy. No names or marks in text. Scuffed and fading dust jacket. An excellent study.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. More than 60 full page plates (illustrator). Facsimile Edition of the 1930 Original. Price clipped jacket with a little edge wear other wise As New. In addition there is a list of over 200 makers.

1st edition. 1st edition, 1930, in paper-covered boards with light brown cloth spine; B&W illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown; free end papers a little browned; some foxing; price-clipped dust jacket worn at edges, with browned spine. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint Of The 1930 Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Small 4to. pp xviii, 153, [55] plates. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Very good in very good dust jacket. Decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: good. . with chipped dustjacket, Peter Davies, light foxing throughout, frontis loose, and 1 plate loose, Professional booksellers since 1981.

FIRST EDITION, 4to, pp153, indexed, with frontispiece and 65 b/w plates, 2 figures in text. Bound in 1/4 cream cloth with boards. Smallish tear to top of spine; bottom corner rubbed; foxing to fore-edge and prelims, occasionally throughout. A copy in overall Good/VG condition (no d/w). (Shelf 135) PLEASE NOTE: Heavy Book ( 1.5 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

4°, XVIII, 153 S., Gzl. mit OU., recht guter Zustand. 41921.

4°. XVIII, 153 S. mit zahlr. Abb. OLn. Mit Besitzvermerk, Seiten gering vergilbt.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. xviii, 153 p. front., illus., music, 65 plates (incl. facsims.) on 32 l. 29 x 23 cm. Contents: Introduction: Origin of the keyboard. Mediaeval instruments.--The clavichord.--The spinet and virginal.--The harpsichord.--The pianoforte until the year 1820.--Appendix: A list of makers and sellers of keyboard instruments (excluding the organ) working in the British isles up to the year 1820. Very good condition, some light foxing.

Cloth Backed Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 153 pages. Illustrated with more than 60 collotype plates taken from illuminated MSS., prints, etc., as well as from the finest examples of the instruments themselves in museums and private collections throughout Europe and America; clavichord, virginal, spinet and harpsichord, and the early history of the pianoforte up to the year 1820. Cloth-backed boards, price-clipped dust-jacket. Bookplate of Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson Baron Ilford (British Conservative politician 1893-1974) who has initialled and pasted to the end pastedown an extract from an auction catalogue dealing with a two-manual harpsichord "identical with my harpsichord but in poor condition." The book is generally in good plus condition but it is apparent that it has been subjected to a damp atmosphere.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with some discolouring to page edges; still in good condition. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

London, The Holland Press, 1960, (reprint of the 1930 edition), in-4°, 153 pp , black/white illustrations, index, publisher's red cloth with a printed dustjacket. Small owner's stamp on paste down and fly-leaf, wrapper with some slight wear, still a nice copy.

London, 1930. XVIII,153 pp. 65 Plts. H.cloth.