COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel; Booker T. Washington, pref.; D.B. Updike, printer. Twenty-Four Negro Melodies Transcribed for Piano. Oliver Ditson Company [1905], Boston, 1905.

Price: US$82.50 + shipping

Description: Folio (31.5cm); publisher's green cloth-backed decorative card wrappers; [2],ix,[5],127pp.; chiefly sheet music. Spine ends, wrapper extremities rubbed and textblock rather shaken, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper ("M.A. Wentworth"). Good or better overall, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Forms part of the Musicians Library series. Landmark collection of African-American spirituals, by the first musician of African descent to gain true eminence as a composer in the European classical style.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel ( Booker T. Washington ). Twenty-Four Negro Melodies / Transcribed By S. Coleridge-Taylor / Op.59. Oliver Ditson Co; Boston; 1905/nd, 1905.

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Description: ; 127 pp.; Wraps; F-/F-; Introduction by Booker T. Washington. Also issued in cloth, this wrappered format retains its jacket with minor edge chipping. There is a publishers' price change sticker on the front cover dated 1921. . . [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]

Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (Transcribed by)/Washington, Booker T. (Preface). TWENTY-FOUR NEGRO MELODIES TRANSCRIBED FOR THE PIANO/The Musicians Library. Oliver Ditson Company, Boston, MA, 1905.

Price: US$255.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 127 pp. Original green wraps w/ title on front cover and gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Modest wear to edges. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Discoloration to top of three leaves due to newspaper clipping and paper clip. DJ is lightly foxed. Spine sunned. Pieces missing from edges and a 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" piece missing from top back. Contents nice.

Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.