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Grunfeld, Frederic V; Editor.
Music & Recordings, 1955
New York, Oxford University Press,
1955, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, A guide and reference book to American music for the year ending June 1955. Containing the largest section on the best and most important LP recordings, group by composer. Discussed in detail; the music itself, the merits of performance, and the technecial aspects of the recordings. Included are Jazz and Jazz recordings, Opera, the orchestral world, the recital scene, the market place, film and other developments. A dya to day chronical with 365 entries. Pictorial section. Maroon cloth boards and spine. DW not price clipped, pictorial, white, red and black spine. Mild soil, light selfwear. No writing, very clean white text. Solidly bound. 8 vo, 302 pp
(Music, 1950, S, Fifties, Music, Lp, Recordings, Recording, Artists, Nineteen, Fifties, Music, 1950, American, Music, 1950, S, Percussion, Recordings, Italian, Concertos, Classical, Music, 1950, Fifties, Jazz, Music, Reference) Cat No. 2618.
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Grunfeld, Frederic V; Editor.
Music & Recordings, 1955
New York, Oxford University Press,
1955, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, A guide and reference book to American music for the year ending June 1955. Containing the largest section on the best and most important LP recordings, group by composer. Discussed in detail; the music itself, the merits of performance, and the technecial aspects of the recordings. Included are Jazz and Jazz recordings, Opera, the orchestral world, the recital scene, the market place, film and other developments. A dya to day chronical with 365 entries. Pictorial section. Maroon cloth boards and spine. DW not price clipped, pictorial, white, red and black spine. Mild soil, light selfwear. No writing, very clean white text. Solidly bound. 8 vo, 302 pp
(Music, 1950, S, Fifties, Music, Lp, Recordings, Recording, Artists, Nineteen, Fifties, Music, 1950, American, Music, 1950, S, Percussion, Recordings, Italian, Concertos, Classical, Music, 1950, Fifties, Jazz, Music, Reference) Cat No. 2618.
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Lee, Frederic P.
The Azalea Book, Second Edition
Princeton, N.J., D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.,
1965, Second Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Good Plus, Thoroughly revised, the complete, authoritative handbooks of Azalea culture. Including tested methods of selection, planting and cultivation Azalea history, descriptive lists of species and hybrid groups, of both deciduous and evergreens, recommended varieties full gardeners. The vast knowledge plant explorers, government specialists, and foreign collectors is embodied in this volume. The author has some 500 azalea plants in his Maryland garden. Broken into three parts: Part I is a complete garden guide, care, hardiness, propagation, zone map, etc. including Bonsai plants: Part II, covers basic horticulture: plant structure, growth factors, soil, nutrition and step by step hybridzing; Part II: considers the place of azaleas in the plant world: relationship to rhododendrons; distribution and classification, with detailed descriptions of Ghent, Mollis, Kurume, Belgian and Southern Indicas, etc. There is also classification and description of some of the American and Japanese species and a thorough revision of the Satsuki group. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photos. Color frontispiece. Orange cloth boards, slight bump to upper edge, 3/4 black spine, silver lettering and decorations. Solidly bound, clean white text. DW not price clipped orange, illustrated. Worn edges and spine ends, chips, rubbing and closed tears. In protective mylar. Map-Zone illustrated e.p. sm 4 to, 235 pp
(Vintage, Gardening, Azaleas, Growing, Azaleas, Horticulture, Hybrid, Azaleas) Cat No. 2619.
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Roberts, Ellis H. (Edited By Horace E. Scudder).
American Commonwealths: New York the Planting and the Growth of the Empire State (2 volumes)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Company,
1887, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, A history of the development of the Commonwealth of New York; beginning in 1524-1615 - discovery by the French - their invasion fails (before the advent of the English), through to 1880. A comprehensice and detailed chronology of its founding, the colonies their development, Indian conflicts, tribes, trade, Indian practices, property bounderies, rivers, forts, missionaries, governments, parties and leaders, war involvenments and political upheavals, land development, waterways, agriculture, races, education, Constitutions and Jurisprudence, literary activity, land and rent, etc. First volume has a fold-out color map of the Commonwealth of NY. Brown cloth boards and spine, bright gilt lettering. White ex-lib numbers & letters to lower spine, upper spine ends rubbed, vol. II, small closed tear upper spine end. Both volumes, ex-lib plates to pastedown, f.e.p. torn to upper and lower areas, small old booksellers plate to lower edge; ex-lib stamp perforation to title page, numbers to reverse. Text clean and bright with mild toning, solidly bound. Volumes are tight, seems to be unread. 12 mo, 758 pp total
(History, Of, New, York, Commonwealth, Of, New, York, Antique, Books, Americana, Discovery, Of, New, York, New, York, Colonies, Antique, Maps, New, York, Dutch, New, York, Iroquois, Indians, Stamp, Act, New, York, And The Revolution, Samuel, J, Tilden, First, Governor, Of, New, York, Captain, Kidd) Cat No. 2620.
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Roberts, Ellis H. (Edited By Horace E. Scudder).
American Commonwealths: New York the Planting and the Growth of the Empire State (2 volumes)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Company,
1887, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, A history of the development of the Commonwealth of New York; beginning in 1524-1615 - discovery by the French - their invasion fails (before the advent of the English), through to 1880. A comprehensice and detailed chronology of its founding, the colonies their development, Indian conflicts, tribes, trade, Indian practices, property bounderies, rivers, forts, missionaries, governments, parties and leaders, war involvenments and political upheavals, land development, waterways, agriculture, races, education, Constitutions and Jurisprudence, literary activity, land and rent, etc. First volume has a fold-out color map of the Commonwealth of NY. Brown cloth boards and spine, bright gilt lettering. White ex-lib numbers & letters to lower spine, upper spine ends rubbed, vol. II, small closed tear upper spine end. Both volumes, ex-lib plates to pastedown, f.e.p. torn to upper and lower areas, small old booksellers plate to lower edge; ex-lib stamp perforation to title page, numbers to reverse. Text clean and bright with mild toning, solidly bound. Volumes are tight, seems to be unread. 12 mo, 758 pp total
(History, Of, New, York, Commonwealth, Of, New, York, Antique, Books, Americana, Discovery, Of, New, York, New, York, Colonies, Antique, Maps, New, York, Dutch, New, York, Iroquois, Indians, Stamp, Act, New, York, And The Revolution, Samuel, J, Tilden, First, Governor, Of, New, York, Captain, Kidd) Cat No. 2620.
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