Theodore e steinway (17 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Gilt title and silhouette of piano on green cloth. Endpapers are lt. green. 125 pages; 13 pages of history, then the rest of the pages have captioned photos and copies of letters and drawings. There are 12 pages of copies of Steinway artists' signatures. Fritz Steinway's inscription and signature, dated July 1, 1982, are on the page facing the title page. The DJ panels have a full spread drawing of hanging pictures on a wall. In the foreground are hat tree, man with a cane, and one corner of a piano. The top ends of the front board and the DJ's front panel have a U-shaped dent; a 1 in. crease line is above the dent on the DJ. Photos e-mailed upon request. Inscribed (to a name) & Signed.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. FINE/Near Fine 8vo in light brown dj. 125pp. GLASS 3.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good to very good condition. Church name and address and something else are crossed over in ink. Gift inscription on front fly leaf. Spine tips are bumped. Cover corners are worn. 1/2 inch tear in cloth near bottom of spine.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (Steinway Pianos, Piano Makers, Music, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 122pp, in-text black and white photographs and signatures. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt decoration on front, gilt titles front and spine. Pale green endpapers. Short 4to. Cloth a little pushed at spine ends. Suggestion of water warping on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean and tight and bright. In its original illustrated paper dust wrapper, a little chipped and rubbed on edges and spine folds, slightly shelf worn. A history of the first hundred years, 1852 to 1952, of the House of Steinway (now Steinway and Sons), piano makers of New York. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 122pp, in-text black and white photographs and signatures. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt design on front, gilt titles on front and spine, green endpapers. 4to. Sun-faded bottom board edges, rubbed spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Previous owner's name on front pastedown Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket tanning, has several closed tears (some with internal tape repairs), minor loss, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. Reprint of the 'Coronet Tells the Story of Steinway' double fold-out A5 sized loosely laid-in. A history of the first hundred years, 1852 to 1952 of the House of Steinway (now Steinway and Sons), piano makers of New York.…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Music literature, Piano makers, Piano history, Steinway and sons pianos) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 122pp. Illustrated in black and white. Small owner stamp on front pastedown and bottom edge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with large chips and tears, and a toned spine.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 125pp. Extensive illustrations. Fine/near fine. An exceptionally tight and handsome second printing of this 1953 heavily pictorial history of the famed piano and ant place in American culture. Outstanding Gorsline dust jacket graphic.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bound of dark green cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Covers are lightly toned with minimal wear. Pictorial DJ is clean, toned on spine, lightly worn on edges, particularly outer corners. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright with light spotting on top edge and some small stains on fore-edge. Printed in B&W. Illustrations throughout. 125 pages. Title page dated 1953. Copyright page dated 1953 and 1961. Stated Second Printing, October 1961. Signed by Henry Z. Steinway (son on the author) in black ink on title page, inscribed "For Dr. Thomas Lovejoy III." A very good copy. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. Second Printing. 125 pages. Profusely illus., sources, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and small tears, several pieces missing to DJ edges. Card plate autographed by the author and hand signed by his wife (author Ruth Gardner Steinway, signed "Ruth") taped to front DJ flap. Henry Steinway, a German immigrant, founded the Steinway piano company in New York City in 1853. The company is known for making pianos of high quality, and for its influential inventions in piano development. Theodore E. Steinway, the author of this book, died in 1957, and this revised Second Printing contains a new preface by his son Henry, as well as three additional pictures at the end of the book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. [2nd ed., 2nd printing] ; 125 pages illustrations 26 cm ; LC: ML424.S76; Dewey: 786.2/3; LCCN: 74-9928 ; OCLC: 61178 ; green cloth with gold designs, in pictorial dustjacket by Douglas Gorsline ; name on front endpaper ; Contents: Origins - The perfection of the instrument - The instrument of the immortals - In tune with the future - Since the centenary ; twleve pages of scores of rarely reproduced signatures of famous pianists and musicians ; FINE/VG. Book. …

Zustand: very good, fair to good. First Printing. 122, profusely illus., sources, previous owner's address sticker inside front board, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. Small tear/chip to DJ spine. Inscribed by the author. Henry Steinway, a German immigrant, founded the Steinway piano company in New York City in 1853. The company is known for making pianos of high quality, and for its influential inventions in piano development.…

Zustand: Very good. 1953 [2000]., 1953 [2000]. Very good. - A collection of facsimile letters, consisting of 256 sheets of watermarked paper reproducing the title page and 255 letters addressed to Theodore E. Steinway which formed an album created in 1953 honoring the centenary of the House of Steinway. The individual leaves are here laid loose in the sleeves of a binder. The original album from which this facsimile was produced was sold at auction circa the year 2000 and 3 sets of facsimiles of the letters were created by the new owner. The album was subsequently broken up and the pages sold separately. The album in in fine condition. The album was sold at auction circa the year 2000 and 3 facsimiles of the letters were created by the new owner. The album was subsequently broken up and the pages sold separately. Among the musicians included in the album are: Walter Piston, Fritz Reiner, Pablo Casals, Percy Grainger, Sammy Kaye, Cab Calloway, Samuel Barber (with a musical quotation), Lauritz Melchior, Morton Gould, Richard Rodgers, Wilhelm Kempff (with a musical quotation), Gerald Moore, Henry Cowell, Ernest Bloch, Count Basie, Gary Graffman, Ernest Krenek, Leon Fleisher, Egon Petri, Yehudi Menuhin, Eugene List, William Kapell, Isaac Stern, Gaby, Jean and Robert Casadesus (on one sheet with a musical quotation), Artur Rodzinski, Eileen Joyce, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Vladimir Horowitz, Hector Villa-Lobos, Rudolf Serkin, George Szell, Jascha Heifetz, Josef Hofmann, Shura Cherkassky, Myra Hess, Arthur Rubenstein, Alexander Tcherepnin ( with 6 musical quotations), Gina Bachauer, Fritz Kreisler, Bruno Walter, Jean Sibelius, Cole Porter, Gian Carlo Menotti, Gregor Piatigorsky, Xavier Cugat (with his self-portrait), Byron Janis, Arturo Toscanini, Wanda Landowska, Mischa Elman, Howard Hanson (with a musical quotation), and Solomon.…