Search Results: tabulated biographical history of music by thompson oscar

NY: Harcourt Brace and Company. Fold-out plates in time-line style. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall . Contents Good. VG-Bright Blue Cloth. 1st Edition.. 1936.

Harcourt, Brace; New York; 1936. First edition (no additional printings indicated). Blue cloth-covered boards, 11 1/4 x 9 inches, 13 plates (tables), 7 of them fold-out. Good plus or very good minus. "If its columns are read downward, the reader secures biographical outlines containing the important events and works of great composers. If read across, the simultaneous events and music works of a given year are found tabulated side by side, providing a record for quick reference of contemporanjeous fact and achievement." From A.D. 995 to 1936. (3214050). F. Hardcover.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1936. hardcover. Book: Very Good. 4to.. Unnumbered pages, 13 foldout plates. 9 1/8 x 11 1/4. Blue cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on front and spine. No dj.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. 13 fold-out plates of composers dated from 995 to 1936, 4to; blue boards. Cover good condition, corners bumped, rear spotted; contents very good, slight tanning paper, name front endpaper; no dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt, 1936. hardcover. very good/very good(-). 13 large folding tables, tall thin 4to, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper worn with a large tear to the lower front cover. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1936). A very good copy in a very good (-) dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936).. (1936).. Good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 9 inches wide], blue cloth. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with the head & tail of the spine lightly chipped. Title & [2] pages plus 13 folding plates. The page edges are somewhat darkened. Good. <p>Each plate covers a period of twenty-five years or more and tabulates the biographical developments and musical activities of important contemporary composers of various nationalities during that period.

NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1936. 4to, with 13 plates, many fold-out. Blue cloth. Cover somewhat spotted, some silverfish damage on plate 13, o/w VG in chipped dj. Charts of composers and musical history, arranged chronologically so that one can see the events of a particular period at a glance.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1936. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/NEW w/light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to endpapers. Vintage 1936, First Edition, First Thus. Blue linen boards w/green lettering/NF w/trace edge wear. Green DJ/Good; strong & sound w/edge & surface wear & loss to upper back edge near spine. Convenient music history reference. Following a tabulated format, music critic Oscar Thompson (1887 - 1945) presents biographical outlines containing the important events & works of great Western composers in vertical columns. 13 fold-out charts. Read horizontally, format allows quick comparisons of fellow contemporary musicians. Largely, dates given are those of compositions; for operas, dates mostly those of first performances.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1936]. (4to) Very good in very good dust jacket. Folding charts, indexes. Previous owner's inscription, minor edgewear to dust jacket. (Music).

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in a Good d dust jacket. Several chips and tears, flaps clipped on all four corners.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall .

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good in like Dustjacket. Quarto. 11 1/4 in. x 9 in. Handsome dark blue cloth-over-boards, with inset rectangular title label to front board, lettered in green. Light rubbing to extremities, and bumped corners. Essentially a mid-1930's spreadsheet of handy, easily retrievable reference points on composers and their works and lives, arranged historically. 13 large, multi-paneled foldout sheets with tabulated information. Simple green dustjacket of thick card stock, printed in black. Edgewear and several closed tears to dustjacket, with one 1.5 in. x 3 in. chip missing from bottom of dustjacket; only the publisher's full name (Harcourt & Brace) is missing, and at that, only partially; the dustjacket has done a creditable job in protecting this lovely (if a bit quirky) quick reference for those who need to know and don't want to take the deep, slow dive into more "analog" research. 104 composers, covering the period A.D. 995 through time of… Read More