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Original 1954 JAN PEERCE Handbill & Program Nova Scotia Opera

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Price: $47.55

Publisher: 1954

Seller ID: Books006602

Original handbill, program, and newspaper review of the March 4, 1954 performance of tenor Jan Peerce and pianist Warner Bass at the Queen Elizabeth Auditorium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Peerce at that time was the leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company. As the review attests: "One of the greatest receptions ever given an artist in Halifax was accorded Jan Peerce... as he was called back for repeated encores for 40 minutes at the conclusion of his concert...last night". An impressive program that included a relatively early performance of Samuel Barber's "Sure On This ...
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Verbessertes Gesang-Buch, zum Gebrauch bei dem ffentlichen Gottes-Dienste sowohl als zur Privat-Erbaung

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Price: $160.31

Publisher: Cassel / Kassel, Johann Nicolaus Geiber: 1778

Seller ID: Books006692

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Very Good

The volume measures 18.5 x 11.5 cm. 770, [50], [26], [1]-96 pages.Clean type and comprehensive Registers. With music notation. Blank endpapers present at front and rear with offsetting from original paste. Binding is sound, with no loose or missing pages and boards firmly attached. A very nice example from Kassel.
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Hymns, Selected and Original, for Public and Private Worship Published By the General Synod for the Evangelical Lutheran Church. BOUND WITH: Formula for the Government and Discipline of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Price: $88.30

Publisher: Baltimore, T. Newton Kurtz: 1855

Seller ID: Books006852

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

x, 676, 23 pages. Sixty-Eighth edition; Eighth revised edition. Preface of 1828 and of 1850 included. The Formula has a separate title page: also published by Kurtz, 1855. Foxing throughout. Numbers inked to front pastedown; signature of Christian Grimm dated 1855 to first front endpaper, and in pencil to rear endpaper and pastedown. "GRIMM 1855" is inked to top edge. Lower hinge split and all but detached.
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5 WW2 Naples / Napoli TEATRO DI SAN CARLO Opera programs British Military Authority

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Price: $101.89

Publisher: 1944

Seller ID: Books007210

Binding: wraps

Condition: Very Good

Five uncommon survivals from the Stagione Lirica Estiva 1944 [Summer Season] and the 1944-45 Season at the "oldest continuously active venue for public opera in Europe" Teatro Di S. Carlo. Under the direction of the British Military Authorities Naples ~ Sotto la direzione dell autoria militare Britannica Napoli. Mementos of Italian opera during wartime: La Traviata [dated in pen 10-4-44]; Tosca; La Boheme [dated in pen 10-7-44 : these three Summer Season programmes each fold out to 3 pages with text on front and reverse. Il Barbiere Di Siviglia [dated 27 December 1944 in pen]; La Travi...
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Neue Musik und Tradition: Festschrift Rudolf Stephan zum 65. Geburtstag (German Edition)

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Price: $40.76

Publisher: Regensburg, Laaber-Verlag: 1990

Seller ID: Books008688

ISBN: 3890072097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

611 pages. Crease and 1 cm tear to page 109. Clean and unmarked. Due to weight, overseas shipping will be more costly than the default quoted in this listing: please inquire.
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Recueil de Cantiques a L'Usage des Missions de France

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Price: $101.89

Publisher: Avignon, Aubanel: 1821

Seller ID: Books009092

Binding: wraps

Condition: Good

xiv, [3]-108 pages. Original sewn wraps re-sewn at some point. Edges dusty, with first few and final few leaves somewhat grubby. Light staining throughout.
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A bound collection of sheet music dating from the 1850s and 1860s, including 1861 Civil War Confederate Ballad: The Moon Rose O'er the Battle Plain

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Price: $984.91

Seller ID: Books007190

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

A collection of sheet music dating from the 1850s and 1860s, consisting of 33 compositions. 113 leaves [226 pages] plus blank endpaper at front. Some European imprints with American distributor, and some American imprints. Please scroll down for a complete list. The volume, measuring 12.75 x 10.4 inches, is in half leather over cloth-backed boards. Scuffing and chipping at extremities and a 2 inch split along spine at upper hinge. Four raised bands to spine with gilt title: No. 1 Songs. Former owner's name in gilt to front. Binding is sound. One leaf detached, all others secure. One leaf has l...
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Early original engraved American Sheet Music Collection including c. 1817 YANKEE DOODLE

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Price: $1,969.83

Seller ID: Books007191

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

An important collection of early American sheet music bound in one volume, consisting of two preliminary leaves of hand-written Index, 113 leaves [i.e. 226 pages] of printed content, and three terminal blank leaves. Please scroll down for a complete list. The volume, measuring 13.75 x 10.25 inches, is in half-leather over marbled boards, with four raised bands to spine. Spine titles and decoration in gilt: Music / Vol. 1. Leather and boards scuffed; foxing, stains, age-toning, and occasional pencil markings to interior. In a few cases there is a marginal chip, and in two instances the music ap...
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Maximumrocknroll 32 issues 1990-2000 [maximum RocknRoll rock n roll]

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Price: $645.29

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Maximumrocknroll: 2000

Seller ID: Books009824

Binding: Saddle Stapled newsprint

Condition: Very Good

32 issues; each in very good condition. Shipping cost will be determined by your location: please inquire. 1990 [10 issues] Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Jun, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, De. 1991 [4 issues] Apr, May, Jul, Nov. 1992 [1 issue] May. 1993 [1 issue] Nov. 1995 [6 issues] Feb, May, Jul, Oct, Dec parts 1 and 2. 1996 [4 issues] Aug, Sep, Oct, Dec. 1998 [2 issues] Feb, Mar. 1999 [1 issue] Aug. 2000 [3 issues] Jan, Feb, Mar.
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Privilegirtes Forst- und Pfortenisches Gesang-Buch : worinnen die Geistreichesten Lieder alter und neuer Dichter ... auch mit einem vollstandigen Gebeth-Buche und einem Anhange der fremden Melodien ... [Gesangbuch, Gebetbuch]

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Price: $1,596.71

Publisher: Pforten [Brody], Erdmann Christoph Beneke: 1762

Seller ID: Books010705

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[16], 678, [26], 120 pages. Contemporary unrestored binding sound, with considerable rubbing / loss to upper two compartments of spine. Original blank endpaper at front and rear; split to title page (4.5 in.) at gutter as seen in photo. Separate title page for Christliches Gebeth-Buch zur Erweckung Heiliger Andacht in Kirchen und Hausern, also dated Pforten 1762. Uncommon.
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Winner's New School For The German Accordeon [Accordion]

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Price: $121.84

Publisher: Boston, Oliver Ditson & Company: 1870

Seller ID: Books011442

Binding: Paper wraps

Condition: Very Good

64 pages. Title continues: In Which The Instructions Are So Clearly And Simply Treated, As To Make It Unnecessary To Require A Teacher. For Practice, More Than 150 Operatic And Popular Airs Are Added, Forming A Complete Collection Of The Best Melodies Of The Day. Some wear to extremities of printed wraps, including an open tear to rear panel. Binding is sound.
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Methodist Hymn-Book. Compiled and published by authority of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada.

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Price: $293.91

Publisher: Toronto / Halifax, Methodist Book and Publishing House / Book-Room: 1880

Seller ID: Books011576

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

760 pages. With 1880 on title page and as date entered according to the Act.... Old vernacular cloth over original boards; foxing to first few and final few leaves; open tear at foot of title page. 935 hymns,;19 doxologies, benedictions, and chants; complete with indices. Words only.
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Alpha Delta Phi. [Songs of Alpha Delta Phi, Published in the thirty-eighth year of the Fraternity]

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Price: $189.41

Publisher: Geneva, NY, Geneva Chapter, Hobart College: 1869

Seller ID: Books012038

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

80 pages. Text bordered in green. 75 songs (no music) with Index at rear. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.
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Vocalion Records. Catalogue for 1922

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Price: $83.36

Publisher: Aeolian Hall, New York, The Aeolian Company: 1921

Seller ID: Books012934

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Good

64 pages. "Alphabetical index of records and classified record-list of exclusive Vocalion artists and their biographies." Inclusive to October 1921. Light soil and chipping to cover and first and last few leaves; cover pulling from rusted staples; upper corner dogeared from page 53.
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Victor Records for July 1915

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Price: $83.36

Publisher: Montreal, Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co. Limited: 1915

Seller ID: Books012935

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Good

36 pages including cover. Light soil and creasing to cover; cover pulling from rusted staples. New records for July; July Red Seal records; Last month's records; June Red Seal records; alphabetical list of June and July records.
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Gems from the Operas: a choice collection of the most admired songs, duets, glees, choruses, &c. &c. ... With all the new songs

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Price: $993.94

Publisher: Philadelphia, John B. Perry: 1851

Seller ID: Books012849

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

283 pages. Green pebbled cloth stamped in blind. Spine somewhat faded and rubbed; "Perry's Edition" at foot. Pale pink endpapers; front pastedown with a Lancaster PA bookseller's ticket half destroyed by silverfish. Loss to top outer corner pp. 43/4 not affecting text. Foxing to first few and final few leaves; interior generally very good; initials EMA penciled to lower edge of textblock.
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