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Autograph manuscript. Three note sheets with pencil notes.

Berryman, John.

n.d. [1960s?]. On Shakespeare, magazines. Very good condition ... more info

Price: $450.00

Autograph musical quotation, signed.

Gould, Morton.

Two bars from his American Salute, signed in full and dated January 19, 1980, on a strip of ruled music paper (3-1/4 x 8-1/2 inches). Attractively matted and framed. ... more info

Price: $300.00

Collection of correspondence with Daniela Gioseffi.

Ciardi, John.

1985. 3 autograph letters signed, 3 typed letters signed (8 pages), one photocopied letter. With five poems by Gioseffi sent to Ciardi, which he returned heavily annotated with harshly critical comments. Also with tearsheets of Ciardi's autobiography from Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, inscribed, with another poem, also inscribed, and with Gioseffi's retained drafts or copies of her letters to Ciardi. Ciardi's letters and comments constitute a virtual lecture course for would-be poets. His rejection of Gioseffi's attempts to enlist his help in getting attention on the grounds of her Italian-American ethnicity did not deter her from a full and personal series... more info

Price: $1,250.00

Musical Stages.

Rodgers, Richard.

New York: Random House, (1975). Inscribed "Sincerely, Richard Rodgers" on the front endpaper. Fore edge a bit foxed, otherwise a fine copy in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $200.00

Signature.

Spalding, Albert.

On a leaf extracted from an autograph album (4-3/8 x 6 inches). Very good, with three holes punched along the left edge of the page. ... more info

Price: $50.00

Signed photograph of Zane Grey.

Grey, Zane.

Nice portrait photograph, 2-1/2 by 4 inches, of Grey, with Grey's rather faded signature below. Matted and framed.Signed photograph ... more info

Price: $100.00

Signed photograph.

Perlman, Itzhak.

Portrait photo by Christian Steiner, a large, smiling pose, holding violin, black-and white, 9 x 6-3/8 inches.Inscribed: "For Steven Hyde Best wishes, Itzhak Perlman." Fine condition. Attractively matted and framed (without glass). Israeli violinist Perlman (b. 1945) enjoys a brilliant career as concert virtuoso, recording artist, and show biz personality. In 1986 he was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom. ... more info

Price: $75.00

Signed photograph.

Thomson, Virgil.

Black-and-white 1983 portrait photograph by Christopher Cox, 10 x 8 inches.Inscribed: "For Happy Feldman, greetings, Virgil Thomson, 1985." Fine condition. American composer Thomson (1896-1989) is best known for his opera Four Saints in Three Acts to a libretto by Gertrude Stein. He wrote numerous orchestral and chamber works, served as music critic of the New York Herald Tribune (1940-1954), and in 1948 received the Pulitzer Prize for his score to the film Louisiana Story. Signed photograph ... more info

Price: $100.00

Signed photograph.

Thomson, Virgil.

Black-and-white 1983 portrait photograph by Christopher Cox, 10 x 8 inches.Inscribed: "For Joan Kimmel, Virgil Thomson." Fine condition. American composer Thomson (1896-1989) is best known for his opera Four Saints in Three Acts to a libretto by Gertrude Stein. He wrote numerous orchestral and chamber works, served as music critic of the New York Herald Tribune (1940-1954), and in 1948 received the Pulitzer Prize for his score to the film Louisiana Story. Signed photograph ... more info

Price: $100.00

Signed postcard.

Sousa, John Philip; Pryor, Arthur Willard.

German promotional postcard for Sousa's first European concert tour, with a portrait photograph of Sousa on the recto. Signed in full (in pencil) by Sousa on the verso and on the recto by ten members of his sixty-piece band, including the trombonist Arthur Pryor, who would become the king of ragtime composers, dated by him June 8, 1900. Very good, with one crease, a couple of band members signatures may be traced over. Famous American bandmaster and composer of some of the nation's best-loved marches, Sousa (1854-1932) made four European tours in the years 1900-1905, and finally a tour around... more info

Price: $500.00

Signed program.

Zimbalist, Efrem.

For the York Symphony Orchestra, Pennsylvania, November 12, 1940, 12 pages 8vo in selfwrappers. Zimbalist played the Bruch Concerto in G minor and his own arrangement of Spanish dances by Sarasate. Signed in green ink on the front cover. Very good, with light spotting to the front cover. ... more info

Price: $50.00

Simfoniia No. 12. Symphony No. 12 "The Year of 1917". Score.

Shostakovich, Dmitri.

Moscow: Soviet Composer, 1961. 192 pp. Boards, cloth back; slight wear but an excellent copy, one of 1000 printed. Inscribed by Shostakovich to the musicologist Lev Lebedinsky and dated 30.x.61, four weeks after the first performance. Lebedinsky was a close associate of Shostakovich and is perhaps best-known for his claim that, at the time of writing his Eighth Quartet, Shostakovich was suicidal, because of his depression at having to join the Communist Party, and that Lebedinsky removed a bottle of sleeping pills from the composer's pocket. In 1993 Lebedinsky described the Twelfth Symphony as "a denunciation of Leninism" noting "It contains a characteristic soliloquy... more info

Price: $3,850.00

The Present State of Music in France and Italy: Or, The Journal fo a Tour through those Countries, undertaken to collect Materials for a General History of Music.

Burney, Charles.

London: Printed for T. Becket and Co., 1771. Entirely uncut, but recently bound in half calf with marbled boards. Some significant underlining to the text, four leaves with marginal loss occasionally affecting letters. Probably the author's copy, used as proof for the second edition of 1773. The index is extensively marked, perhaps noting passages needing review, marginal annotations (often erased, and sometimes cut away), with two manuscript corrections to the text (the corrections were made in the second edition). ... more info

Price: $1,500.00