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[14355] , Bela. Mikrokosmos - Piano Solo Volume II. London: Boosey &
Hawkes, Paperback. Very Good 38pp. Numbers written on front cover. £5.00
[14356] , Bela. Mikrokosmos - Piano Solo Volume III. London: Boosey & Hawkes,
Paperback. Very Good 51pp. Numbers written on front cover. £5.00
[4187] Anon. Mister Sach's Song Saloon. Paperback. Good+. 10pp programme from
the Riverside Theatre, Festival Gardens, London 1951 in illustrated coloured
card wrappers, rubbed. £6.00
[11259] Anon. An Evening with the London Symphony Orchestra. Chicago: Maxwell
Scroge, 1971. Hardback. Fine. The International Festival of Great Orchestras.
55pp. Illustrated. Issued by Philips with the LP record [not included]. Original
beige cloth gilt. £6.00
[11260] Anon. An Evening with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Chicago:
Maxwell Scroge, 1972. Hardback. Fine. The International Festival of Great
Orchestras. 55pp. Illustrated. Issued by Philips with the LP record [not
included]. Original beige cloth gilt. £6.00
[11261] Anon. An Evening with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam. Chicago:
Maxwell Scroge, 1971. Hardback. Fine. The International Festival of Great
Orchestras. 72pp. Illustrated. Issued by Philips with the LP record [not
included]. Original beige cloth gilt. £6.00
[11262] Anon. An Evening with I Musici. Chicago: Maxwell Scroge, 1972. Hardback.
Fine. The International Festival of Great Orchestras. 56pp. Illustrated. Issued
by Philips with the LP record [not included]. Original beige cloth gilt. £6.00
[5055] Anthony, Gordon. Ballerina - Further Studies of Margot Fonteyn. London:
Home & Van Thal, 1946. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper.
4to. 16pp. Frontispiece. 32 plates. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt. £5.00
[5000] Anthony, Gordon. The Sleeping Princess. London: George Routledge, 1940.
First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+. No dustwrapper. Folio. 49pp. 63 mounted
plates of the production including many fine photographs of Margot Fonteyn and
Robert Helpmann. Thiis volume was produce to commemorate the revival of
Tchaikovsky's ballet by Sadler's Wells in 1939. No inscriptions. Blue cloth
gilt. Nice bright copy £30.00
[13346] Bach, J. S.. The Passion of Our Lord According to S. Matthew. London:
Novello and Company, Novello's Original Octavo Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No
dustwrapper. viii,158pp. Edited by Edward Elgar and Ivor Atkins. Green cloth,
shelf sunned. £6.00
[14358] Bach, J. S.. The Well-Tempered Clavichord For the Piano Book 1. New
York: G. Schirmer, Paperback. Very Good Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics
Volume 1483. xiv, 149pp. Edited by Edwin Hughes. Yellow printed covers, slightly
worn on spine ends. £6.00
[14357] Bach, J.S.. Suite in B minor transcribed for Flute and Piano by Lambros
Demterios Callimahos. London: Schott, Paperback. Good+ Edition Schott 2446.
19pp. Covers browned. £3.00
[13349] Bach, J.S. arranged and edited by W. Gillies Whittaker. A Short Passion
from St. Matthew's Gospel. London: Oxford University Press, Paperback. Good+.
xxiii, 135pp. Text in English by C. Sanford Terry and Welsh by E.T. Davies and
Gwilym Williams. Name on cover. Covers worn. £6.00
[8288] Bacharach, A.L.. The Musical Companion - A Compendium for All Lovers of
Music. London: Victor Gollancz, 1947. 15th impression. Hardback. Good+. No
dustwrapper. 751pp. Folding chart. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Blue cloth
gilt, spine sunned. £3.00
[11251] Backus, John. The Acoustical Foundations of Muisc. London: John Murray,
1970. First UK Edition. Hardback. Good. Ex-library. No d/wrapper ISBN:
071952216X. 312pp. Usual stamps. Original green cloth gilt. £6.00
[7321] Bainbridge, Cyril. Brass Triumphant. London: Frederick Muller, 1980.
First Edition. Hardback. Fine in near fine d/w ISBN: 0584103727. 171pp.
Illustrated. A history of the brass band movement with profiles of fifteen of
the most famous bands, a complete record of British Open Champions and a
discography. No inscriptions. Black cloth. £10.00
[14359] Beethoven. Ecossaises and German Dances . C.F. Peters, 1931. Paperback.
Very Good Edition Peters No. 4336. 19pp. Six Ecossaises and Twelve German Dances
for Piano £3.00
[3079] Belmont, Eleanor Robson. The Fabric of Memory. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Cudahy, 1957. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good d/w. vi,
311pp. Nancy Astor's copy. These reminscences by the founder of the Metropolitan
Opera Guild are inscribed by her "For Nancy Astor - With affection and many
happy memories Eleanor Robson Belmont Jan 1958". £24.00
[9733] Blaukopf, Kurt. Mahler. London: Futura Publications., 1975. Reprint.
Paperback. Good ISBN: 0860070344. No inscriptions. £3.00
[10700] Bondi, Hermann et al [editors]. The Marshall Cavendish Learning System :
Cultural Heritage - The World of Music. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1969. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good ISBN: 0462002608. 64pp. Illustrated in colour and
black and white. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Original pictorial laminated
boards. £5.00
[11093] Boucourechliev, André. Schumann. London: John Calder, 1959. First
English Edition. Paperback. Good+. 192pp. Illustrated. Translated by Arthur
Boyars. No inscriptions. Covers rubbed o/w VG. £4.00
[3681] Bourne, C.E.. The Great Composers or Stories of the Lives of Eminent
Musicians. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1896. Seventh Edition. Hardback. Good+. No
dustwrapper. 352pp. Illustrated. Prize bookplate. Blue pictorial cloth gilt, aeg,
rubbed/worn and bumped, scattered foxing. £6.00
[3947] Bowen, Elizabeth. Britain in Pictures : English Novelists. Bahamas:
Britain in Britain Publishers, Hardback. Very Good+ in Good+ d/w ND. 48pp. 8
colour plates. 19 illustrations in black and white. No inscriptions. Illustrated
boards. £6.00
[14360] Brahms, J.. Sonata in G. Op. 78 - For Violin and Piano. London: Augener,
Paperback. Good Augener's Edition No. 4761. 33pp. Covers worn. £3.00
[3682] Bridge, Frederick and Sawyer, Frank J.. A Course of Harmony. London:
Novello and Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper.
vi,209pp. Name on endpaper. Blue cloth gilt, rubbed/bumped o/w VG £4.00
[11143] Brinson, Peter and Crisp, Clement. Ballet for All. London: Pan Books,
1970. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0330024302. Illustrated. No
inscriptions. Pages browned. £3.00
[11108] Brinson, Peter and Crisp, Clement. A Guide to the Repertory : Ballet and
Dance. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in
fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0715381148. x,274pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions.
Original brown cloth gilt. £10.00
[13942] Brion, Marcel. Schumann and the Romantic Age. London: Collins, 1956.
First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. viii, 375pp. 6 iIlustrations. No
inscriptions. Dustwrapper price intact. Red cloth gilt, front endpaper removed.
£4.00
[13951] Cairns, David. Responses : Musical Essays and Reviews. London: Secker
& Warburg, 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good. ISBN:
0436080907. xiv, 266pp. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper price intact. Black cloth
gilt. £8.00
[12027] Colles, H.C.. Walford Davies. London: Oxford University Press, 1942.
First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper 203pp.Illustrated. No
inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt. £4.00
[11715] Concert Programme. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - The Messiah.
Paperback. Very Good. Concert at the Royal Festival Hall Wednesday 20th December
1989. Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £3.00
[11115] Davies, Sir Walford. The Pursuit of Music. London: Thomas Nelson, 1946.
3rd Impression. Hardback. Very Good in dustwrapper x, 437pp. Musical
illustrations. No inscriptions. Original blue cloth gilt. £6.00
[10802] Dearmer, Percy, Williams, R. Vaughan and Shaw, Martin. The Oxford Book
of Carols. London: Oxford University Press, 1931. 3rd Impression. Hardback.
Good. No dustwrapper. xxix,491pp. Early edition of this classic. Name/date
[1931] on endpaper. Original red cloth gilt, rubbed/worn.. £6.00
[14362] Debussy, Claude. La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin. London: United Music
Publishers, Paperback. Good+ 3pp. From Preludes , Book I. Piano Solo. Covers
worn. £3.00
[7557] Dent, Edward J.. Opera. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1949. Reprint.
Paperback. Good. Pelican A150. 220pp. Illustrated by Kay Ambrose. No
inscriptions. Covers slightly worn. £3.00
[11090] Dent, Edward J.. Terpander or Music and the Future . London: Kegan,
Paul, Trench, Trubner, . . Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 95pp. 12pp
catalogue. Name on endpaper. Original black paper covered boards with white
labels, rubbed on extremities. £7.00
[11111] Finney, Theodore M.. A History of Music. London: George G. Harrap, 1935.
First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper ISBN: 0837172705. xi,
635pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Original blue cloth gilt. £15.00
[11148] Flower, Newman. Handel - His Personality and his Times. London: Panther,
1959. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good No iinscriptions. £3.00
[11149] Foss, Hubert. Mussorgsky. London: Novello, Paperback. Good Novello's
Biographies of Great Musicians. 16pp. No inscriptions. £6.00
[9345] Gammond, Peter. Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era. London: Abacus, 1975.
First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0349114129. 223pp. 58 plates.
Preliminary/final pages foxed. No inscriptions. £3.00
[14363] Gay, John rewritten and supplemented by Frederic Austin. The Beggar's
Opera 1728 - Selection for Pianoforte. London: Boosey & Co., 1921.
Paperback. Good+ 16pp. Colour illustrated cover, spine worn. £4.00
[3688] Gilbert, W.S. and Sullivan, Arthur. The Mikado or The Town of Titipu.
London: Chappell & Co., 1933. Paperback. Good. 47pp. 1p advert. Initials on
title page. Text only. £3.00
[11112] Gimpel, Herbert J.. Beethoven Master Compose. London: Franklin Watts,
1970. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0851663214. viii,
250pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Original red cloth. £14.00
[3687] Gollancz, Victor. Journey Towards Music - A Memoir. London: Gollancz,
1964. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good d/w ISBN: 0575009772.
238pp. 2 colour and 33 monochrome plates, 2 text illustrations. no inscriptions.
Blue cloth gilt. £3.00
[13347] Grace, Harvey. The Organ Works of Rheinberger. London: Novello and
Company, Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. xi, 130pp. Name on endpaper,
author's dates written on title page. Green cloth gilt. £6.00
[14364] Granados, E.. Danza Espanolas - IV- Villanesca. Paris: Union Musicale
Franco-Espagnole, Paperback. Good+ 6pp. No. 1047, Piano solo. Covers worn.
£3.00
[3689] Greene, H. Plunket. From Blue Danube to Shannon. London: Philip Allan,
1934. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 179pp. 3pp adverts.
Inscription on endpaper. Blue cloth, rubbed, endpapers foxed. £8.00
[3691] Greig, John (editor). The New Musical Educator Volume 3. London: Caxton
Publishing Company, Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper xxiii,212pp. 5
plates. Name on endpaper. Blue decorated cloth gilt. £4.00
[3693] Greig, John (editor). The New Musical Educator Volume 5. London: Caxton
Publishing Company, Hardback. Very Good in poor dustwrapper xii,218pp. 5 plates.
Folding chart showing the relative compass of Military Band instruments. Folding
chronological table of composers. Name on endpaper. Blue decorated cloth gilt.
£4.00
[14365] Grieg, Edvard. Two Elegiac Melodies Opus 34 Piano Solo. London: Novello,
Paperback. Good 7pp. Name on cover. £4.00
[11113] Griffiths, Paul. The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th-Century
Music. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine
dustwrapper ISBN: 0500234493. 207pp. No inscriptions. Original red cloth gilt.
£20.00
[13541] Grindea, Miron [EDITOR]. Adam International Review Nos 316-318 1967.
London: Adam International, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. 96pp. Illustrated. Most
of this edition is taken by a diary written by the composer William Alwyn -
Ariel to Miranda - covering a year form September 1955 to August 1956
documenting 'with an obsessive subserviance the pangs of the creative process '.
No inscriptions. Covers marked.. £12.00
[5525] Hadden, J. Cuthbert. Favourite Operas from Mozart to Mascagni - their
plots, history and music. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910. First Edition.
Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. xv,288pp. 24 colour plates by Byam Shaw. Name
/date [1919] and extensive later inscription on endpaper.Blue cloth gilt, teg,
rubbed/marked, scattered foxing (not affecting the plates). £5.00
[11116] Hadow, Sir W.H.. English Music. London: Longmans Green, 1931. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. English Heritage Series.
xiii,188pppp. Intorduction by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Name on endpaper. Original
green cloth gilt, bright copy. £6.00
[14016] Hallé, Charles edited by Michael Kennedy. The Autobiography of Charles
Hallé, with Correspondence and Diaries. London: Elek, 1972. First Thus.
Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good. ISBN: 0236154486. 215pp. Illustrated. No
inscriptions. A selection edited from the original edition of 1896 and with an
Introduction by Michael Kennedy. Dustwrapper slightly worn, price intact. Blue
cloth gilt. £10.00
[14366] Handel, George Frederic. The Water Musick arranged for Pianoforte by
Granville Bantock. London: W. Paxton, Paperback. Good 38pp. Illustrated cover,
worn. £4.00
[11299] Harris, Clement Antrobus and Hargrave, Mary. The Story of British Music
and The Earlier French Musicians. London: Waverley Book Co., Hardback. Very
Good. No dustwrapper. The Waverley Music Lover's Library. 237pp. Frontispiece;
258pp. Frontispiece. Name on endpaper. Original blue cloth, spine dulled. £8.00
[6546] Harris, Ken. Opera Recordings - A Critical Guide. Newton Abbott: David
& Charles, 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good d/w ISBN:
071536362X. 328pp. No inscriptions. Black cloth gilt. £6.00
[10861] Haskell, Arnold L.. Miracle in the Gorbals. Edinburgh: Albyn Press,
1946. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper. 63pp. 15 plates.
No inscriptions. Original blue cloth gilt. £6.00
[3277] Heath, Edward. Music. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ in Good+ d/w ISBN: 0283983493. 4to. 208pp.
Illustrated. Signed by Edward Heath. Red cloth gilt. £5.00
[11145] Hill, Ralph [editor]. The Symphony. London: Penguin Books, 1956.
Reprint. Paperback. Good+. Pelican Book A204. Name on half-title. Pages browned.
£3.00
[9512] Hindley, Geoffrey. Musical Instruments. London: Hamlyn, 1971. First
Edition. Paperback. Reading copy ISBN: 0600002942. £3.00
[11097] Hoffer, Charles R. and Anderson, Donald K.. Performing Music with
Understanding - Green. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Inc., 1971. First Edition.
Trade Paperback. Very Good+. ISBN: . 4to. 244pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions.
£12.00
[13984] Hogwood, Chistopher. Music At Court. London: Folio Society, 1977. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good / Good. 4to. 127pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions.
Glassine dustwrapper marked/worn. Quarter blue cloth glt, front board slightly
dented/marked. £3.00
[13964] Hollander, Hans. Leos Janacek - His Life and Work. London: John Calder,
1963. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good 222pp. Illustrated. No
inscriptions. £6.00
[11095] Holst, Imogen. Henry Purcell - The Story of his Life and Work. London:
Boosey and Hawkes, 1961. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. The Great Masters
Series. Name on endpaper. £6.00
[14367] Hope, Laurence set to Music by Amy Woodforde-Finden. Four Indian Love
Lyrics from The Book of Poems entitled "The Garden of Karma". London:
Boosey & Co., Paperback. Very Good 19pp. No 2. for Soprano or Tenor.
Contains The Temple Bells, Less than the dust, Kashmiri Song and Till I Wake.
£4.00
[9983] Hopkins, Anthony. Beating Time. London: Michael Joseph, 1982. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper ISBN: 0718121317. 224pp.
Illustrated. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper.Red cloth gilt. £8.00
[11117] Hunt, Rev. . A Concise History of Music from the commencment of the
Christian Era to the present time. Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1893. Twelfth
edition revised to date. Hardback. Very Good. Cambridge School and College Text
Books. xvi, 184pp. 20pp. catalogue dated 1892. Folding chart of the Medieval or
Chruch Modes. Name on endpaper. Original blind stamped brown cloth gilt. £8.00
[11153] Jacobs, Arthur. A Short History of Western Music. London: Penguin Books,
1973. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0140214216. No inscriptions. £3.00
[13863] Jefferson, Alan. The Lieder of Richard Strauss. New York: Praeger
Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. x, 134pp.
Musical illustrations. Name on end paper. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. Brown
cloth gilt. £6.00
[14474] Kennedy, Michael. Richard Strauss : Man, Musician, Enigma. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardback. Fine / Fine. ISBN:
0521581737. xvi,451pp. Portrait frontispiece. 34 illustrations. "This is
the first large scale biography of Richard Strauss to be written for many years
and re-evaluates a figure whom the author considers to be the greatest composer
of the twentieth century". No inscriptions. Dustwrapper not clipped. Black
cloth gilt. £25.00
[13914] Kodaly, Zoltan. Folk Music of Hungary. London: Barrie & Rockcliff,
1960. First English Edition. Hardback. Very Good / Good. Small 4to. 166pp.
Illustrated. Maud Karpeles' copy inscribed to her by the author "To Miss
Maud Karpeles with professional devotion Z. Kodaly London Sept. 1960". Maud
Karpeles [1885-1976] was an important figure in English Folk Dance. She became
amanuensis to Cecil Sharp accompanying him on his collecting trips to the
Appalachians and after his death visited Newfoundland making a substantial
collection of folk songs of British origin. She published her edition of Sharp's
English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians [1932 and subsequent editions]
and her own " Folk Songs from Newfoundland " [1971]. Dustwrapper
rubbed/worn, price intact. Decorated grey cloth , a few annotations in pencil.
£30.00
[11118] Koechlin, Charles. Gabriel Fauré [1845-1924]. London: Dennis Dobson,
1946. Second Revised Edition. Hardback. Good in poor dustwrapper ISBN:
0404146791. viii, 98pp. Portrait frontispiece. Includes List of Works and
Bibliography. No inscriptions. Blue cloth, marked. £20.00
[3696] Lee, E. Markham. Tschaikovski. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. First
Edition. Limp leather. Very Good. 64pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. 5
further illustrations. Bell's Miniature Series of Musicians. Bookplate. Name on
endpaper. Red leather gilt. £5.00
[14368] Liszt, Franz. Liebestraume. London: Bosworth & Co., 1899. Paperback.
Good+ Bosworth Edition No. 246. 19pp. Revised, phrased and fingered by H. Germer.
Newly revoxsed by Vernon Warner. Cover illustrated with portrait of Liszt. Label
of Arnolds The Music People, Simla on the front cover. A memory of the Raj !
£6.00
[3704] Littlehales, Lillian. Pablo Casals. London: J.M. Dent, 1929. First
Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 217pp. Portrait frontispiece and 7
further illustrations. Name on endpaper. Green cloth gilt, rubbed/worn on
extremities. £6.00
[13032] Lynn, Vera. Vocal Refrain: An Autobiography. London: W. H. Allen, 1975.
First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good d/w ISBN: 0491017952. 192pp.
Illustrated. No inscriptions. Brown cloth gilt. £5.00
[14369] MacDowell, Edward. Sea Pieces Op. 55 - Book I. London: Elkin & Co.,
1898. Paperback. Good+ 19pp. Illustrated covers. Contains To The Sea, From a
Wandering Iceberg, A.D. 1620 and Starlight. Annotated in pencil. £3.00
[13865] Mahler , Alma edited by Donald Mitchell. Gustav Mahler - Memories and
Letters. London: John Murray, 1968. Second edition [enlarged]. Hardback. Very
Good / Very Good. xxx,369pp. Illustrated. Inscription on endpaper. Dustwrapper
worn on edges , not price-clipped. Red cloth gilt. £6.00
[11146] Matthews, Denis. Keyboard Music. London: Penguin Books, 1972. First
Edition. Paperback. Good+. ISBN: 0140212507. No inscriptions. £3.00
[13344] Maunder, J.H.. Song of Thanksgiving - A Cantata for Harvest and General
Festival use for Soprano, Tenor and Bass (or Contralto), Soli and Chorus with
Hymns to be Sung by the Congregation. London: Novello and Company, Novello's
Original Octavo Edition. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. vi, 65pp. Words
written and arranged by Shapcott Wensley. No inscriptions. Green cloth, marked,
shelf sunned. £10.00
[12013] McSpadden, J. Walker. Opera Synopses - A Guide to the Plots and
Characters of the Standard Operas. London: George G. Harrap, 1940. Reprint.
Hardback. Good+ in dustwrapper. 400pp. Name on paste-down. Front free-endpaper
removed. Green cloth. £3.00
[13897] Mellers, Wilfrid. Music in a New Found Land : Themes and Developments in
the History of American Music. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1964. First Edition.
Hardback. Fine / Very Good. xv, 543pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper
slightly rubbed, price intact. Brown cloth gilt. £12.00
[13058] Mellers, Wilfrid. Beethoven and The Voice of God. London: Faber &
Faber, 1983. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in near fine d/w ISBN: 057111718X.
viii, 453pp. Musical illlustrations. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. No
inscriptions. Blue-grey cloth gilt. £80.00
[14354] Mendelssohn . Lieder Ohne Worte [8 selected numbers] for the Piano.
London: Joseph Williams, Paperback. Very Good 27pp. Berenrs Edition No. 15180.
No inscriptions. Covers worn on edges. £5.00
[14347] Mendelssohn [ F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy]. Elijah - An Oratorio. London:
Novello and Company, 1903. New and Enlarged Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ vi,
206pp. 2pp catalogue. Stamp of Walkers' Music Rooms, Halifax on title-page.
Quarter brown cloth gilt, brown and cream printed boards decorated with the
classic Novello pattern. A very nice clean copy. £10.00
[5543] Menuhin, Yehudi. Unfinished Journey. London: Book Club Associates, 1977.
First Thus. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good d/w xvii, 393pp. Numerous
illustrations. No inscriptions. Black cloth gilt. £3.00
[11094] Meynell, Esther. Bach. London: Duckworth, 1962. Reprint. Paperback. Very
Good. Great Lives Series. Name on endpaper. £3.00
[14370] Moore, Frederick [editor]. A Choice Collection of Ayres and Dances.
London: Paterson's Publications, 1931. Paperback. Good+ 20pp. Includes Purcell's
Ayre in D Minor and Hornpipe in E Monor £4.00
[4596] Morrison, John (editor). A Little Book of Carols. London: Christian
Action, Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: 0901500178. Unpaginated.
Illustration to each carol. Introduction by Dr. John Dykes Bower. Red cloth
gilt. £6.00
[12588] Morrison, John (editor). A Little Book of Carols. London: Christian
Action, Hardback. Very Good in Very Good d/w. Unpaginated. Illustration to each
carol. Introduction by Dr. John Dykes Bower. No inscriptions.Red cloth gilt.
£8.00
[14349] Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Sonaten für Klavier zu Zwei Händen [Band I
& II : Sonaten 1-19]. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, Hardback. Very Good / No
dustwrapper. 4to 321p. Nach den quellen neu herausgegeben von C.A. Martienssen
und Wilhelm Weismann. Edition Pteres 10817/18. Name on endpaper. Red cloth gilt.
£10.00
[13919] Nemeth, Carl. Franz Schmidt - Ein Meister nach Brahms und Bruckner.
Zurich-Leipzig-Wien: Amalthea, 1957. 1.-4. Tausend. Hardback. Very Good / Good.
291pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper worn on edges. Red cloth gilt.
£8.00
[13920] Newman, Ernest. Opera Nights. London: Putnam, 1956. 5th Impression.
Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good. x,629pp. Musical illustrations. No
inscriptions. Dustwrapper price-clipped. Blue cloth gilt. £6.00
[11104] Newmarch, Rosa. The Concert-Goers Library of Descriptive Notes Volume V.
London: Oxford University Press, 1944. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Good+. No
dustwrapper. 98pp. No inscriptions. Original brown cloth gilt, front endpaper
removed. £4.00
[4181] Nicholas, Michael. Muse at St. Matthew's - A short history of the
artistic traditions of St. Matthew's Church, Northampton. Paperback. Good. ISBN:
0950031208. 4to.pamphlet. Photographs by Ralph Meakins. Cartoons by Stephen
Meakins. £6.00
[13861] Nichols, Roger. Debussy Remembered. London: Faber & Faber, 1991.
First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0571153577. xxxvi,
256pp.39 illustrations. No inscriptions. Dustwrapper slightly worn on edges, not
price-clipped. Blue cloth gilt, page edges browned otherwise Fine. £8.00
[13862] Nourrit, Adolphe. The Great Tenor Tragedy : The Last Days of Adolphe
Nourrit as Told (Mostly) by Himself. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1995.
First Edition. Hardback. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0931340896. xi, 179pp.14 plates. No
inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. Brown cloth gilt. £6.00
[3699] Oldmeadow, Ernest J.. Chopin. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. First
Edition. Limp cloth. Very Good 65pp. 5pp adverts. 16pp catalogue. Engraved
portrait frontispiece. 4 further illustrations. Bell's Miniature Series of
Musicians. Bookplate. Red leather gilt. £5.00
[3701] Parry, C. Hubert H.. Studies of Great Composers. London: George Routledge,
Twenty-first edition. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good d/w vi, 376pp.
Frontispiece. Pencilled inscription erased from ffep. Green cloth, page edges
foxed. £3.00
[11245] Pauer, Ernest. Musical Forms. London: Novello, Ewer and Co., 1878. 17th
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cloth and printed boards, worn o/w VG. £5.00
[1259] Pearson, Hesketh. Gilbert and Sullivan - A Biography. London: Hamish
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083696621X. 319pp. 3 illustrations. Name on paste-down. Black cloth gilt. £4.00
[11126] Piggott, Patrick. BBC Music Guides : Rachmaninov Orchestral Music.
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Musical illustrations. No inscriptions.. £6.00
[13912] Pleasants, Henry. Death of a Music ? - The Decline of the European
Tradition and the Rise of Jazz . London: Gollancz, 1961. First Edition.
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[8282] Reid, Charles. Malcolm Sargent - A Biography. London: Hamish Hamilton,
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[11154] Reyna, Ferdinand. Concise Encyclopaedia of Ballet. London: Collins,
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[11150] Routley, Erik. A Short History of Church Music. Oxford: Mowbrays, 1977.
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£7.00
[11147] Samuel, Claude. Prokofiev. London: Calder and Boyars, 1971. First
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[11110] Sandved, K.B. [editor]. The World of Music - A treasury for listener and
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[14353] Satie, Erik. Rêverie de l'enfance de Pantagruel - Pour Piano. Paris:
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[14352] Satie, Erik. Trois Nocturnes Pour le Piano. Paris: Editions Salabert,
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[11298] Scholes, Percy A. and Longford, Rev. W.W.. Everyman and His Music and
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[13944] Schonzeler, Hans-Hubert. Bruckner. New York: Vienna House, First
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[14371] Schubert, Franz. Sonate per Pianoforte Volume I. Milano: G.Ricordi ,
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[14373] Scriabine. Six Selected Pieces for Piano. London: Edwin Ashdown, 1921.
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[13898] Seroff, Victor. Sergei Prokofiev : A Soviet Tragedy. London: Leslie
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[11942] Shanks, Edward. Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. First
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[11125] Shore, Bernard. Sixteen Symphonies. London: Longmans Green, 1949. First
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[11199] Sidgwick, A.H.. The Promenade Ticket - A Lay Record of Concert-Going.
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[11120] Siegmeister, Elie. The Music Lovers Handbook. New York: William Morrow,
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[11121] Spaeth, Sigmund. A Guide to Great Orchestral Music. New York: The Modern
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[5064] Stokes, Adrian. Russian Ballets. London: Faber & Faber, 1935. First
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[11247] Stone, W.H.. The Scientific Basis of Music. London: Novello, Ewer and
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[8689] Tenschert, Roland. Musikerbrevier. Wien: Wilhelm Frick, 1940. Hardback.
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[14348] Tobin, John. Handel at Work. London: Cassell, 1964. First Edition.
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[11091] Turner, W.J.. Orpheus or The Music of the Future . London: Kegan, Paul,
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[13941] Warburton, Annie O.. Score Reading, Form and History. London: Longmans,
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[11124] Wells, H. Wharton. A Handbook of Music and Musicians. London: Thomas
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[8293] White, Eric Walter. Benjamin Britten - his life and operas. London: Faber
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[13928] Wimbush, Roger [editor]. The Gramophone Jubilee Book 1923-1973. Harrow:
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