Los Angeles: Standard Printing Co, 1913. 11.25 x 8", brown cloth, 22, 1-32, 25-56, [2], 57-80, [4], 81-107, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated wholesale trade catalog of musical instruments sold by the Southern California Music Company of Los Angeles. Staining and wear to covers, bit of foxing and smudging to covers.....
N.P. [Gale Agency], [1953]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, [24] pp, illustrations from photographs. Program for a tour by a group of prominent African American rhythm and blues musicians that took place in the summer of 1953. Performers included Joe Louis, Ruth Brown, Wynonie Harris, Lester Brown and Buddy Johnson's Orchestra. Not.....
New York City: E.H. Warner Poster Corp, [1954]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, [16] pp, illustrations from photographs. A program from an eight week tour of the South and Midwest by these four prominent r & b groups. The tour took place in winter and spring 1954, with this copy dating from.....
Jersey City, N.J. Oscar Schmidt, Ca 1890. 13.5 x 5", single leaf folded accordion style, 13 pp. Chipping and tearing along edges, fair.
New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, Publishers, Circa 1880s. 6 x 4”, 72 pp, racial caricature illustration to front cover. A collection of songs sung by Christy’s Minstrels, a prominent American minstrel troupe that pioneered the three act minstrel show consisting of Tambo, the interlocutor, and Mr. Bones. Toning and damp.....
Boston/New York/Philadelphia: Ditson & Co, Ca 1870s-1880s. Octavo, pink printed wrappers, 208 pp. Lengthy catalog of sheet music and music books by Ditson. Very good with staining and tears to wrappers.
Boston/New York/Philadelphia: Ditson & Co, Ca 1870s-1880s. 8vo, pink printed wrappers, 172 [4] pp. Lengthy catalog of music books. Undated, but prints book recommendations dating from the 1870s. Bit of staining, tearing, creasing to wrappers, very good.
N.P. [1950s]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, [24] pp, illustrations from photographs. A program promoting Douglas "Jocko" Henderson (1918 to 2000), an African American radio DJ, businessman, and hip hop music pioneer. The program dates from the 1950s, when Jocko hosted a radio program titled "Jocko's Rocket Ship Show," on WOV in.....
St. Louis, Mo. 1938. Quarto, 12 x 9", beige stapled wrappers lettered in black, 8 pp, photographic portrait illustrations. Program for a talk and recital given by influential blues musician W.C. Handy and his son at an African American church in St. Louis. A newspaper clipping affixed to the last.....
N.P. Ca 1870s to 1880s. Single leaf measuring 23.25 x 17.25", printed on both sides. A broadsheet printing songs by "Comical Brown," a famed 19th century American showman and touring comedian. Folding creases, some areas of offsetting, closed tears along edges up to 1.5 inches, separations along folds up to.....
New York: Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1869. Octavo, 7.75 x 4.75", beige illustrated wrappers, 24 pp. An early American magic guide by Joseph Michael Hartz, a pioneering vaudeville performer and magician who started his career in London before emigrating to the New York in 1866 together with his brother.....
Nashville: McQuiddy Press, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 108pp, blue cloth with gilt lettering. Book of courtroom anecdotes by the radio country music star and founder of the grand ole opry. About very good with staining and discoloration to covers, toning to pages.
New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1948. First edition, first printing. Small quarto, original blue cloth boards, titles to spine and front cover in silver, with the dust jacket. A very good copy with the cloth edges lightly soiled, in the toned dust jacket with minor wrinkling to front panel, milkd.....
Minneapolis, Minn: L. Kimball Printing Company, 1891. Hardcover. Octavo, maroon cloth with gilt and black lettering and illustration, 192 pp. A biography of famed American opera singer Emma Abbott. Laid in is a handwritten verse in Abbott's own hand, on her monogrammed letterhead, as collected by a fan. A nice.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1900. Octavo, 7.5 x 5.5", red cloth with gilt spine titles, 252 pp, illustrated. Treatise on magic by the French magician known as the father of conjuring. A good copy with wear to corners and edges, soiling to covers, foxing to endpapers, cracking to front.....
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Fleming Book Company, 1946. Fourth Edition. 9.5 x 6.75", red cloth with gilt lettering, yellow dust jacket, xiii, 400 pp, 131 illustrations from drawings by Jeanne McLavy. "The standard textbook on how to become a magician. Sleight-of-hand feats and tricks with apparatus for amateur and professional.....
New York: Doubleday and Co., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, original printed pictorial boards, blue endpapers, in the original pictorial dust jacket. A very colorful children's picture book telling the story of the Beatles. A very bright copy with spine just a touch rolled and a hint of soiling.....
New York: Doubleday and Co., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, original printed pictorial boards, blue endpapers, in the original pictorial dust jacket. A very colorful children's picture book telling the story of the Beatles. Soiling to dust jacket, offsetting and discoloration to front panel of jacket, 2.5 inch tear.....