Milton ‘Mezz’ Mezzrow / Bernard Wolfe.

Really the Blues.

London, The Jazz Book Club, 1959. 20 x 12.5 cm. (6), 388 pages. Original cloth hard cover with title and decorations. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Spine faded. Internally clean.

Moore, Gerald.

Am I Too Loud? Memoirs of an Accompanist.

First Edition. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1962. 21 x 14 cm. 304 pages. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Original blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Inside original decorated dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Dust jacket with edge wear and fraying at spine ends and corners, now inside archival jacket. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.

Manuscript Music Book.

Unpublished. Before 1889. 30 x 23 cm. 20 pages of handwritten music scores – stapled. Plus one losely inserted page of music scores. Decorated blue cardboard covers. Soft cover. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Some fading and discolorations. Name of previous owner on front cover: ‘A.M. Poore’.

Anon.

Irish Presbyterian Church. Tunes & Chants. Staff Notation.

No title page or publishing information. Oblong 12 x 7 cm. viii (TOC), 117 pages with musical scores plus 21 scores in ‘Appendix’. Cloth covered paper covers with embossed title information. Good condition. Half title and title missing. Binding very weak, covers held by a thread. Rubbed and bumped. Dust dulled and minor damp stains. Name of previous owner on verso of front cover.

Västgöta Nations Sångbok.

Limited Edition 387/1400. Uppsala, Västgöta Nation i Uppsala, 1943. 16.5 x 11 cm. 109 pages. Very good condition. Some inscriptions, and ephemera, as shown in images. Very nice.

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. [Sotheby’s].

Music. Catalogue of Printed & Manuscript Music, Books on Music & Musical Instruments.

London, Sotheby’s, 1977. 154 pages plus Index. Illustrated in colour and B&W. Losely inserted price list for the auction. Original green wrappers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. See image.

Botkin, B.A.

A Treasury of American Folklore. Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People.

Third Printing. New York, Crown Publishers, 1944. 21 x 14 cm. xxvii, 932 pages. Original blue cloth with gilt dragon on front board and gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Front free end paper missing. Some shelf wear. Binding and edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

Cole, Hugo.

Eleven Nursery Rhymes. Wood Engravings by Gwyneth Eedy.

[First Edition]. London, Novello and Company, 1958. 28 x 22 cm. 24 pages of sheet music and B&W Illustrations. Original decorated soft paper covers. Very good condition. Near Fine.

Davidson, Gladys.

Standard Stories from the Operas.

London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1935. 19 x 13 cm. xvi, 1048 plus publishers list. Original red cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Blind decorations. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. A nice copy.

Laver, James (Editor) / Goetz, Walter (Illustrator).

Memorable Balls.

First Edition. London, Derek Verschoyle, 1954. 28 x 21 cm. xi, 116 pages. Colour Plates. Original dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust age darkened. Internally clean.