Compact Discs

Classical:

Brahms
Piano Concerto
Alfred Brendel, piano/Claudio Abbado conducting the Berlin
     Philharmonic
(New York: Philips, 1986; 420 071-2, BC: 28942-00712)
Price: $30.00
(This CD is in perfect shape. The "liner notes" insert is signed by Brendel.)

Pop, rock, folk, etc.:

Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls
(New York: Sony/Epic, 1984)
Price: $10.00
(This is a CD single with three tracks: "Hope Alone"--alternate version, "Bitterroot"--alternate version, and "Late Bloom." This promo CD single is factory sealed.)

LP Records

Classical:

Masterpieces of Baroque and Classical Trumpet
Artists: Maurice Andre & others
(NY: Murray Hill)
Price: $25.00
(Includes works by Haydn, Purcell, Handel, Telemann, Lully, Vivaldi, etc. This is a 5-LP boxed set, factory sealed.)

Mozart
Piano Concerto in A, K. 488 & Piano Concerto in C, K. 467
Jorge Demus, piano/Collegium Aureum, performing on original instruments
(MN: Pro-Arte, 1975; PAL-1040)
Price: $14.00
(This LP is not factory sealed and therefore sells as a "used" copy even though it is unplayed. Appears in good shape by visual inspection.)

Mozart
Piano Concerto in D, K. 537 "Coronation" & Piano Concerto in C, K.
     246
Jorge Demus, piano/Collegium Aureum, performing on original
     instruments
(MN: Pro-Arte, 1970; PAL-1023)
Price: $14.00
(This LP is not factory sealed and therefore sells as a "used" copy even though it is unplayed. Appears in good shape by visual inspection. Slight scuff mark on top front of record jacket.)

Natania Davrath, soprano
Baroque Cantatas
Weiller conducting the Wiener Solisten
(New York: Cardinal, 1967; VCS 10028)
Price: $5.00
(Includes works by Fiocco, Handel, and Scarlatti. This LP is in fair shape only. Valued primarily for its being a somewhat rare recording by Davrath.)

Pop, rock, folk, etc.:

Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline
(New York: Columbia Records; 9825)
Price: $15.00
(This is a "factory cut-out" and is factory sealed.)

Bruce Springsteen
Born in the USA
(New York: Columbia Records, 1984; BC: 7464-38653-1)
Price: $20.00
(This LP is factory sealed.)

Miscellaneous:

The Astromusical House of Libra (Astrological Series: Volume I)
(New York: GWP Records, 1969)
Price: $10.00
(This LP is factory sealed, and includes a booklet by the astrologer Carroll Righter.)

Songs of the Zodiac: Leo
(AM Records: SP 4215)
Price: $4.00
(This LP is in but fair shape.)

Good Friends Are for Keeps: 100th Year Celebration Album: America
     Sings of Telephones
Price: $10.00
(This compilation, put out by Bell Telephone, includes songs by artists ranging from Dinah Shore to Johnny Rivers. This LP is factory sealed.)

78s

Mozart
"Titus--Sextus Aria"
Ernestine Schumann Heink
(Victrola Records, red label)
Price: $13.00
(This 78 is a one-sided record. Originally purchased from the Larry Holdridge auction. No visible scratches or bubbles. Fair shape on playback.)

Sheet Music and Scores

The Noel Coward Song Book
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953)
Price: $35.00
(Hardcover, with no dustjacket. First printing. Front cover has a slight dent in lower right corner. Otherwise book is in good shape. Contains an introduction and annotations by Noel Coward, with illustrations in color and B/W by Gladys Calthrop, and a glorious frontispiece portrait (reproduction) of Noel Coward by Clemence Dane.)

A Treasury of Grand Opera
Edited by Henry W. Simon
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946)
First Edition
Large (9" by 12") paperbound book with slipcase
Price: $38.00
(This "paperbound" volume actually has a very stiff cover, which might cause some people to mistake it for a hardbound book. The slipcase is rare; most were lost, and this is the only copy we have ever noted that has not lost its slipcase. While the book is in excellent shape for its age--it is a bit, though only a bit, yellowed at the edges--the slipcase is scuffed in places, somewhat split at two corners, and split almost the full length along one edge of the spine end. These splits do not detract from the attractiveness of the slipcover, and in fact add something of an antique patina. Moreover, the slipcase, despite these splits, rmeains quite sturdy and intact. This is a rare opportunity for someone to collect this book with its original slipcase. This amply illustrated volume contains stories, history, and music--piano arrangements with words--to seven operas: Don Giovanni, Lohengrin, La Traviata, Faust, Aida, Carmen, and Pagliacci. At 404 pages, and given its size, this book allows a major immersion (submersion?) in the study of opera.)