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Rare Books For Sale

These books are on display at Givens Violins. (Click here to see our inventory of CDs)

Author Title Price
Andrew Dipper, D. Woodrow Cozio Di Salabue (1st Ed) 277/995 160.00
Bein & Fushi The King Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu, 1737 110.00
Boyden, et. al The Violin Family 20.00
Carl Fisher Inc. The Violin, How to Make It 20.00
Carl Fisher Inc. The Violin, How to Make It 25.00
Cornelia Watkins Rosindust: Teaching,Learning and Life 28.95
David Boyden Hill Collection of Instruments (Ashmoloean) 60.00
David Laurie The Reminiscences of a Fiddle Dealer 65.00
David Laurie The Reminiscences of a Fiddle Dealer 75.00
E. Polonaski Value of Old Violins 70.00
E. Polonaski Value of Old Violins 70.00
Ealing Strings The Eternal Influence of Antonio Stradivari 250.00
Elias Howe Co. The Violin: How to Master It (Boston) 20.00
Fillipo Bonanni Antique Musical Instruments & Their Players 15.00
Francine Cabos Le Violon Et La Lutherie 150.00
Frederick Martens Violin Mastery 90.00
Fridolin Hamma Die D'Egville - Del Gesu; Eine Monographie 750.00
G. Foucher History & Construction of the Violin 55.00
Geary Baese Classic Italian Violin Varnish (bk. 361) 450.00
Giovanni Iviglia Cel. Farotti; Portrait of a Violin Maker 78.00
Gualtiero Nicolini The Int'l School of Cremona: 2-Score Yrs 95.00
Hans Edler Geigen-f-Modele (Ex Libris, 1st Ed) 50.00
Horace Petherick Antonio Stradivari 50.00
Horace Petherick The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 110.00
J.A. Otto Structure & Preservation of the Violin 40.00
J.M. Fleming Old Violins & Their Makers (Ex Libris) 55.00
Jacques Francais The Dr. Herbert Axelrod Stradivari Quartet 75.00
Janet Horvath Playing (Less) Hurt, Revised Edition 29.95
John Broadhouse The Violin, How to Make It (blue cover) 50.00
John Broadhouse The Violin, How to Make It (orange cover) 60.00
John Tartaglia Fantasia (Marin Marais) Viola & Double Bass 18.00
John Tartaglia Primavera for Viola & Oboe 18.00
John Tartaglia "My Life..." for Mezzo-Soprano & Viola 15.00
Josef & Reiner Hammerl Violin Varnishes 50.00
Julie Ayer More than Meets the Ear 16.95
Karel Jalovec Italian Violin Makers 300.00
Lothar Meisel The Meisel Family Violinmakers 225.00
Mason Clarke The Violin and Old Violin Makers 35.00
Megan Westberg (Ed) Your Dream Instrument - Insider's Guide 16.95
Pauline Rushton European Musical Instruments in Liverpool Museum 30.00
Robert Alton Violin Making and Repairing (1st Ed.) 30.00
Stefano Pio Liuteri Sonadori Venezia 1750-1870 300.00
Th. Rowland-Entwistle Teach Yourself the Violin 25.00
W.E. Hill & A.F. Hill Gio Paolo Maggini, His Life & Work 150.00
W.M. Knox The Violinist Manual; A Theoretical Textbook 25.00
W.M. Knox The Violinist Manual; A Theoretical Textbook 35.00
W.M. Knox The Violinist Manual; A Theoretical Textbook 45.00
Walter Mayson Violin Making (3rd ed.) 30.00
Walter Mayson Violin Making (3rd ed.) 45.00
Walter Mayson Violin Making (2nd ed.) 50.00
Wm. C. Honeyman The Violin: How to Choose One 30.00
Wm. Reeves Treatise on the Structure & Preservation 50.00


Assorted CDs for sale

Givens Violins also has the following Compact Disks available.

Artist Title Price
Andrea Een From The Valley 17.00
Antonio Soler Lyra Concert 17.00
Artaria String Quartet An Artaria Winter Holiday 15.00
Ensemble Capriccio String Trios by: John Tartaglia, Randall Davidson and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski 15.00
Ensemble Capriccio Skrowaczewski's World: Chamber Music of Stanislaw Skrowoczewski 15.00
Katie Wolfe, violin and Adrienne Kim, piano Sonatas For Violin And Piano By Niels Gade 16.00
Minnesota Sinfonia The Emperor's New Clothes and The Nightingale 15.00
Nathaniel Smith Arrhythmia: Orignal Cello Compositions 15.00
Randy Sabien Rhythm and Bows 15.00
Rosalyra Quartet Artimiw, Faure Piano Quartets 15.00
Rosalyra Quartet Shostakovich 15.00
Rosalyra String Quartet Beethoven & Bartok 15.00
Shank-Hagedorn Duo Recital for Violin & Guitar 15.00
Shank/MacLaughlin Duo Bela Bartok: Sonatas for Violin and Piano; Andante; First Rhapsody 15.00
The Bakken Trio Ives, Part, Beethoven 15.00
The Bakken Trio Brooks, Takemitsu, Waters 15.00
The Hill House Chamber Players Music In The Gallery II 16.95
Yuko Heberlein Music For The Young Paganini 15.00