Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color photos by the author. "With understanding and attention to detail, Ms. Krementz introduces us to Josh and his activties, capturing his energy and enthusiasm in full-color photographs, while Josh's own words tell us about learning to play the trumpet, and why he enjoys it so much." Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages, pictorial wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ashley Bryan. Musical arrangements by David Manning Thomas. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
NY, Knopf, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers with white cloth spine. Illustrated in color by Elizabeth Black Carmer. 244 pages. Previous owner's signature front end paper, light wear, spine a bit faded. A collecton of folk tales followed by a piece of music that was inspired by the story. Name on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Moderate foxing to cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 54 pages. "A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters." 11 full page color plates. All pages color illustrated and decorated by Crane. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Decorated endpapers. Pages are lightly age toned and there is some minor smudging and discoloration to endpapers. Reddish brown pictorial cloth with b/w illustration. Matching brown, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear and some age soil.
Hardcover. NY, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Jon Muth. This beautiful edition includes a CD of Dylan's original 1963 recording, plus a special note by renowned music columnist Greil Marcus. CD is NEW and sealed in a neat embedded plastic case. Bright and clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Abelard-Schuman, reprint, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light blue cloth cover, some wear to corners and edges. Many color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Hardcover, Updike's story adaptation from William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", set to music by Felix Mendelssohn. In turquoise cloth boards with gilt lettering at spine, illustration of Bottom surrounded by fairies stamped in red on front panel. Chappell's illustrations in both color and B&W. Previous owner's inscription on dedication page. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Dr. Seuss. 19 Seuss-Songs for Beginning Singers - Piano Score and Guitar Chords by Eugene Poddany. Previous owners bookplate opposite title page. Quarter size abrasion at top right corner of front endpaper. Light wear to cover, corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 83 pages, black & white drawings by David Hockney. Dust jacket cover with faint soiling, otherwise a very good copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover. Color and black & white illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Dust jacket poor with major chipping and several tears, especially at the spine.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press,, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A stunning picture book inspired by the beloved "Hallelujah Chorus," and the remarkable story of Handel's personal mission to spread peace and joy. Color illustrations by Jason Walker. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color and b&w illustrations by W.B. Park. A cowpuncher, a plumber, and a drummer set off to see the King of Kazoo in search of their hearts' desires: a purple cow, a sink to fix, and a drum. The story is interspersed with ten songs. Sticker shadow on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated and designed by Don Bolognese and Elaine Raphael. Ex-library with light marking, residue to endpapers. An epistolary narrative of the musical prodigy's first year in Italy, composed from his detail-laden letters to his younger sister Nannerl. Although the letters themselves are fictional they are based on detailed research and on the hundreds of letters which Mozart and his father both wrote home during their trip. A map of the trip is also included as well as a little biography on some of the main characters.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 64 pages. A collection of hymns illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dj with light edgewear, price clipped. Soil on fore edge.
Hardcover. New York, McCall Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Ronni Solbert. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR JEAN MERRILL, ILLUSTRATOR RONNI SOLBERT, AND COMPOSER GWYNETH WALKER on front endpaper. Program from original performance laid-in. Price clipped dust jacket with a few tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Newark NJ, Charles E, Graham, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Gilt letters with mild fading on purple, ribbed cloth. The front board has a color pastedown illustration. 87 pages; color illustrations by C.M. Burd, 12 of the rhymes have music arranged by Joseph Knecht and color plates. B&w illustrations by Grace Irwin. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, bookplate on prelim page.
Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Diana Cain Bluthenthal. Unclipped dust jacket.
hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Front fly leaf missing. Edgewear and chipping to covers. Spine coming off.
Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dominic Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. When a jazz-loving kitten named Nicky meets a legendary trumpet player, he learns how to play jazz and word travels fast--soon all the top musicians hear about this jazz cat and want to play with him. This charming story is illustrated with photographs of Nicky with jazz greats Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Abbey Lincoln, and Gerry Mulligan as they meet and make friends. The colorful graphics and rhyming text--call and response conversation between Nicky and his new musician friends--reflect the humor, rhythm, and spirit of jazz itself. Nicky the Jazz Cat teaches children about the magic of jazz, the value of friends and mentors, and the power of imagination and originality. Children and adults alike will delight in his journey from curious jazz kitten to acclaimed jazz cat. This is the true first edition published 2 years before the poerHouse edition.
Hardcover. Paris, Dorbon-Aine, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, 66 pages. Color Illustrations by Paul Guignebault. FRENCH TEXT. Circa 1920.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH A SKETCH on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Aakron, OH, Saalfield, 1st Edition, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover, textured pages. Vivid, full-color illustrations. Some chipping to wrapper at spine and crease to top right corner of front cover and top left corner of back cover. Some light tanning to covers and pages from age. Staple bound. Adorable childrens book with sheet music included in illustrations.
Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Claster Enterprises, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages. Cardboard covers. No dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Gordon E. Nichols. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Soiling, rubbing to covers. Cracking at spine. Edgewear.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover,170 pages in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. When Nick investigates what he thinks are screams coming from the bushes in the park, he discovers the school outcast practicing his trumpet. Ratbag, a lanky, unkempt black boy who has a reputation as an unpleasant loner, may be different, but he is blessed with phenomenal innate musical talents. His talent is brought to the attention of the school band director, who uses his teen prodigy to lead his British school to the national playoffs in Amsterdam, where a mystery begins. Nick and Ratbag become unknowingly involved in a major drug-smuggling operation, and the boys are used as bait for police.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laura Levine. Grammy promotional bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise VG, clean. Pinkerton's family decides he needs a friend, but is a cat named Rose really suitable? Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY , L. W. Singer Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Illustrated in color by Caldecott winner Jerry Pinkney. One of his early and scarce titles. Light wear, rubbing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Some light abrasions to cloth covers. Remainder mark on bottom. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Seuss throughout. 19 songs for Beginning Singers. Piano score and Guitar chords by Eugene Poddany. 1st printing, with 1st group listed books ending with I Had Trouble & list for Beginning Readers ending with Fox in Socks on back cover, decorated cloth cover. Mild soil to rear cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nola Langner. 'Library Edition' specification printed on back cover of book. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, T. C. & E. C. Jack, unknown, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Musical scores to 30 children's songs illustrated in color by Paul Woodroffe. Illustrated cardboard covers with white cloth spine. Endpapers illustration in yellow. Light wear to cover corners.
Hardcover. Paris, Plon-Nourrit & Co., 1st, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Illustrated cloth boards with ribbon tie missing. Illustrated with full color drawings by M.B. de Monvel. Children's songs in French. Spine and cover with slight sun fading. No date, circa early 1900s.
Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 42 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Dust jacket with rubbing, tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 42 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Dust jacket with rubbing, tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Woody Guthrie spent his life putting into words and music what the rest of America was thinking. He roamed from coast to coast and captured the despair of those displaced by the Great Depression and the dust bowl, eulogized workers, and celebrated the great natural beauty of America. This is an introductory biography presented as a picture book with a brief lyrical text and powerful, hand-tinted, woodcut-like illustrations by the author. It includes the complete lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" and excerpts from his other songs.