Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
- Published by: Collector Books
- Edition: 2nd Edition March 1995
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0891456481
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0891456483
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Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 2.3 pounds
Product Description
The Sheet Music Reference and Price Guide helps the collector discern the really rare and valuable sheet music from the common pieces. This second edition is once again produced in full color. There are over 13,000 listings with date, artist, lyricist, composer, and a current collector value. The gorgeous 275+ full-color photographs of these artistic pieces of sheet music have made this new second edition a bestseller. Anyone interested in art, nostalgia, or sheet music will enjoy this book. 2004 values. AUTHORBIO: Anna Marie Guiheen spent 45 years as a bookkeeper and office manager for a local bookstore. After retiring, she toyed with the idea of taking organ lessons. Her sister, Marie-Reine Pafik, asked her about doing a reference guide to sheet music, and the organ lessons were put on hold. They co-authored The Sheet Music Reference and Price Guide. AUTHORBIO: Marie-Reine A. Pafik was an estate liquidator and appraiser by profession. After thirty years of experience in business she felt it was time to share her knowledge with others, and she and her sister co-authored The Sheet Music Reference and Price Guide. At the time of her death, her sheet music collection numbered in the 7,000s and spanned the 1830s to the 1970s. REVIEW: This book has been a bestseller for many years, containing thousands upon thousands of listings. Date, title, composer, and current collector value are provided for each listing, and hundreds of color photographs are interspersed throughout the book.
About The Author
Anna Marie Guiheen spent 45 years as a bookkeeper and office manager for a local bookstore. After retiring, she toyed with the idea of taking organ lessons. Her sister, Marie-Reine Pafik, asked her about doing a reference guide to sheet music, and the organ lessons were put on hold. They co-authored
The Sheet Music Reference and Price Guide.Marie-Reine A. Pafik was an estate liquidator and appraiser by profession. After thirty years of experience in business she felt it was time to share her knowledge with others, and she and her sister co-authored
The Sheet Music Reference and Price Guide. At the time of her death, her sheet music collection numbered in the 7,000s and spanned the 1830s to the 1970s
Reader Reviews
This 320 page volume contains over 13,000 listings of sheet music! There are over 300 full color pictures of sheet music covers and prices updated for the year 2,000. In addition to the alphabetical listing of songs and current prices, there are chapters on Cover Artists, Performers & Composers, Misc. categories ranging from advertising, black face, military, to patriotic, sports and WW I and II. There isn't a lot of back ground information, but a ton of listings, dates and prices. A valuable reference source for sheet music collectors.
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