Editore: London: Batchworth Press, 1961
Da: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Large quarto. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ nicked with edge-tears & some soiling; slight sun-fading to edges of cloth binding; else very good in fair DJ. Pages: xv, 40 and plates.
Editore: London: Batchworth Press
Da: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Large quarto. Color and B&W plates; B&W illustrations. Fine in fine DJ. Pages: 110 text; 174 plates.
Editore: Spring Books, London, 1964
Da: JBK Books, North Manchester, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 33 cm x 26 cm. Contents clean, tight, textually unmarked. No library stamps. Owner's name written on front blank endpaper. Includes 323 b/w and color plates. First published 1958; Third Impression.
Editore: London : Spring Books
Da: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Third printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket housed in protective mylar; Stored and shipped in protective polybag; Secure packaging for safe delivery. 4.27.
Editore: Spring Books London ca. 1950, 1950
Da: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Folio, hardback VG in edgeworn white pictorial dj. 1st Edition, Third Impression, 1964. Many photos and illustrations. Dust jacket has some tearing and fading, but book, itself, in near fine condition. A fabulous look at musical instruments. Great book for a music lover! 37 pp of test and 323 plates. Discusses prehistoric times, the Sumerians and Babylonians, middle ages, folk instruments, and more. Table of instruments and historical table. Book.
Cloth w/DJ. Condizione: G/VG. Color, Black & White Illus. (illustratore). London, UK: Batchworth Press Limited. G/VG. (1961). . Cloth w/DJ. Folio, 333 pp., rubbed, frayed, torn, faded, bookplate .
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Undated hardback edition with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - decorated black cloth boards tanned and rubbed to edge. Internally clean. Binding tight; no annotation or inscriptions; tanning to page-ends but text, illustrations and music bright and clear throughout. An excellent reading or study copy. This book is both large (250mm x 340mm, 174pp) and heavy (1.9kg). Not an old library book.
Editore: Batchwork Press, London
Da: Broadleaf Books, Abergavenny, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. B/w Photographs and Illustrations with Music Scores (illustratore). First Edition. Very good to inside with small printed address label to top right corner of page facing inside front board. Thereafter in very good condition with no marks. Profusely illustrated throughout. Black boards with gilt design to front which is slightly faded to the top edge; spine and back top and right edge faded. POSTAGE OVERSEAS is by AIR and extra will be requested (weighs just under 2kg). Broadleaf Books is a second hand independent bookshop in Abergavenny, South Wales. Enquiries and visits are very welcome. hst ms.
Editore: Spring Books, 1100
Da: Tilly's Bookshop, Haydock, MER, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. The boards are tan hessian with gilt lettering on the spine and an illustration on the front board. The jacket is covered with a clear plastic wrapper, and has only very minor edge ware, with a few minor losses at the top on the back cover. The inside pages are in a very good condition.There are 38 pages of written detail, then a few tables of musical information, and to finish there are 323 items featured in colour and black and white. There is a white cloth page finder that remains in a very good condition. The book comes inside a sleeve which has shelf / edge ware bumping and nicks, but is still in a very good condition to protect the book and jacket. It has had minor repairs. Overall, I class this as in a very good condition, especially with it still having the sleeve with it.
Editore: Spring Books, London
Da: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Spring Books, London, no date. Cloth. Condition: VG. No Jacket. 42 pp text + 323 plate illus. Translated by Iris Urwin. Complete with 323 full page plates, many in color and an historical table. A finely produced record with great reference value. brown cloth with gilt image on cover and gilt titles to spine, white ribon bookmark attached, spine and edges sunned, owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked.
Editore: Spring Books N.D., London
Da: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. A barely shelfworn Edition in Fine condition housed in a dust-jacket that is Near Fine and has a tear to the upper corner edge and other mild shelfwear, volume is in a generally worn slipcase ; This book covers a wide range of musical instruments from antiquity to the present day. It includes descriptions of instruments from all over the world, as well as explanations of their construction and use.; Folio.
Editore: Batchworth Press, London
Da: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. [1959] Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine and gilt decoration on front cover. Spine faintly sunned. Corners bumped. Previous owner's name in pencil on half-title page. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.
Editore: Spring Books, 1964 (3rd impression)., 1964
Da: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Used - Very Good. 1964. Spring Books, 1964 (3rd impression). Cloth, quarto, 42 pp. + 323 plate illus. Minor rubbing to cloth. Very Sound.
Editore: Batchworth Press, London
Da: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 110+174 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ elaborate gilt decoration on front cover and gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. DJ has wear and tear to edges w/ large piece missing from bottom front cover w/ a 2" tear. Also a piece missing from bottom back cover. Approx. 2" tear to top front cover.