Philadelphia: T. K. Collins, 1851. Twentieth Edition. Hardcover. Small oblong quarto. 416 pages. Printed paper covered boards. Leather spine. Poor to fair condition. The front cover, right front flyleaf, title page and copyright page are detached. Light to moderate toning and foxing to the contents. Old ink name top of..... More

Notes on Bessie Smith's Singing Style by Gunther Schuller. Musical Arrangements by George N. Terry. Edited by Clifford Richter. New York: Walter Krane & Son, Inc., 1975. First Edition. Soft cover. Tall quarto soft cover. 144 pages. Illustrated soft cover. Shelf wear and light soiling to soft cover. Contents include..... More

Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Company, 2009. Later printing. Paperback. Tall quarto size paperback. xxxv, xxxvi (blank), [2], pages 9-305 pages, [2]. Illustrated. Pictorial covers. More

Standard Vocal Edition. New York: ARC Music Corporation, 1963. Sheet music. Sheet music. 4 pages. Advertisements on the back cover including one for "The Beat of Berry & Bo Diddley." A couple of scuff marks on the blue front cover. More

London, Chesire, New York: 1967-1988. Magazine issue, Sheet Music. Three Blues related publications: Blues World, March 1967, 25 pages; Juke Blues Winter, 1988-1989 with Son House (1902-1988) on the front cover, 34 pages; and W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues, 6 pages. St. Louis Blues is copyrighted 1941 but this..... More

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, [1], 163 pages, [3]. Illustrations. Red cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. No dust jacket. Apparently the binder, printer did not add end papers in the rear. All contents are very clean and no pages..... More

From the Latest London Edition. Baltimore: Published by John Cole & Son, 1834. Hardcover. 16mo. 58pp., 16pp index, [1]p contents. Green paper covered boards. Perished spine. Front hinge is tender. Right front flyleaf torn at top. A couple of damp-stains to paper covered boards. Toning to contents. More

Signed by the author. Scottsdale, AZ: Book Patch, 2018. Second printing. Paperback. Paperback. 89 pages. Illustrated. Glossy, color pictorial covers. Second printing. Signed by the author on the blank side of the front cover. More

And Forty-one Plates of Musical Compositions as Composed by Negroes and Set down in Music by the Author. New York: Walter Neale, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xx, 143 pages. Frontispiece illustrated portrait. Illustrated. Blue cloth hardcover with pasted down illustration and title on the front cover. Title on the..... More

New York: The H. W. Gray Company, 1907. Wraps. Wrap. Approx. 10.5" x 7". xii, pages 3-170. Brown paper covers with illustration by William Blake and title on the front cover. Light edge chipping to the covers. A music score. More

Missouri Biography Series edited by William E. Foley. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, [1], 265 pages. Illustrated. Gold binding with title in black on spine. Illustrated dust jacket with title and portrait of Joplin on cover. Inscribed, signed by the author on the right front flyleaf..... More

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. xii, [1], 156 pages, [3]. Illustrated with photographs. More

Broadway, New York: Top Notch Productions, Inc., 1941. Soft cover. Stapled newsprint illustrated soft cover. 32 pages including the covers. Contents contain dozens lyric songs and music scores to 7 songs. Pictures of performers include Dinah Shore on the front cover and inside this periodical. Also included are pictures of..... More