Literature on music Sounds Magnificent: The Story of the Symphony by Herbert Chappell [Price: $15.00] London, British Broadcasting Company, c1984, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 172 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Opera: What's All the Screaming About? by Roger Englander [Price: $9.45] New York, Walker and Company, c1983, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 192 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Composer and Critic: Two Hundred Years of Musical Criticism by Max Graf [Price: $15.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., c1946, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 331 pgs (Slight edge soiling. DJ has edge wear at spine and corners with some chipping.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Alice in Music Land: Adventures in the Land of Harmony by Ernest La Prade, Illustrated by Grace Huxtable [Price: $25.00] Boston (London), Robert Bentley, Inc. 1953 (Bodley Head Books), pub1953, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 136 pgs (Front and back covers are slightly soiled. Because of pasted label on title page, believed printed in London and resold by Bentley in U.S.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Pleasures of Music: A Reader's Choice of Great Writing about Music and Musicians from Cellini to ... by Jacques Barzun, editor [Price: $25.00] New York, The Viking Press, pub1951 c1951, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 624 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) Musical instruction and study What Music Is by Herbert Weinstock [Price: $7.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., pub1966 c1966, Hard Cover Poor/Poor jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 396 pgs (Good text copy, but stained cover. DJ worn, torn and taped.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS
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