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[14802] Abraham, Gerald. Beethoven's Second-Period Quartets. London: Oxford University Press, 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 79pp. Name on front cover. Spine chipped. £5.00

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[14616] Barford, Philip. BBC Music Guides : Bruckner Symphonies. London: Ariel Music, BBC Publications, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+ ISBN: 0563205121. 68pp. Musical illustrations No inscriptions. £3.00

[15159] Barne, Kitty. Listening to the Orchestra. London: J.M. Dent, 1958. 8th Impression. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. xiv, 226pp. Illustrated. Dustwrapper price intact. No inscriptions. Blue cloth. £4.00

[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

[14813] Brent-Smith, A.. Schubert 2. Quartet in D Minor and Octet. London: Oxford University Press, 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 55pp. No inscriptions. £14.00

[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

[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

[14809] Fuller-Maitland, J.A.. Schumann's Concerted Chamber Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 63pp. No inscriptions. Spine slightly chipped. £14.00

[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

[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

[14801] Hadow, W.H.. Beethoven's Op. 18 Quartets. London: Oxford University Press, 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 64pp. Name on front cover. Spine chipped. £3.00

[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

[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

[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

[15952] Hirsch, Hugo and Jones, Stephen. Selection from 'Toni' a Farcical Musical Comedy. Ascherberg Hopwood & Crew, 1924. Paperback. Very Good Sheet music. 4to. 11pp. No inscriptions. £5.00

[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

[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

[14814] Howes, Frank. The Music of William Walton Vol. I. London: Oxford University Press, 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Good+ The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 76pp. No inscriptions. Spine worn. £4.00

[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

[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

[11146] Matthews, Denis. Keyboard Music. London: Penguin Books, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Good+. ISBN: 0140212507. No inscriptions. £3.00

[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

[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

[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

[14810] Milne, A. Forbes. Beethoven The Pianoforte Sonatas II. London: Oxford University Press, 1948. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 66pp. No inscriptions. £6.00

[14804] Milne, A. Forbes. Beethoven The Pianoforte Sonatas I. London: Oxford University Press, 1933. 3rd Impression. Paperback. Very Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 66pp. Foyle's Music Dept. stamp on title page. £6.00

[14805] Milne, A. Forbes. Beethoven The Pianoforte Sonatas II. London: Oxford University Press, 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 66pp. Foyle's Music Dept. stamp on title page. £6.00

[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

[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

[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

[15866] Ours, Berthold [editor]. Pianoforte Album No.17 : Schubert [Books 4,5 &6]. London: Novello, Ewer & Co., Hardback. Very Good+ No date [ ca. 1900]. 4to. 144pp. Comprising Three Sets of Variations, Andante and Kalvierstuck, Adagio, Allegretto and March in E Major etc. Five Pianoforte pieces and Two Scherzos. No inscriptions. Brown decorated cloth gilt. £20.00

[11245] Pauer, Ernest. Musical Forms. London: Novello, Ewer and Co., 1878. 17th thousand. Hardback. Good+. Novello's Music Primers and Educational Series Edited by Sir John Stainer.186pp. Name on introductory page. Original quarter black cloth and printed boards, worn o/w VG. £5.00

[13912] Pleasants, Henry. Death of a Music ? - The Decline of the European Tradition and the Rise of Jazz . London: Gollancz, 1961. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. 191pp. 1p. bibliography. Name/date [1961] on endpaper. Annotated in pencil. Dustwrapper tanned, price-intact. Blue cloth gilt. £25.00

[11154] Reyna, Ferdinand. Concise Encyclopaedia of Ballet. London: Collins, 1974. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0004344081. 250pp.Illustrated. No inscriptions £4.00

[11150] Routley, Erik. A Short History of Church Music. Oxford: Mowbrays, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0264661257. 122pp. No inscriptions. £7.00

[14617] Schlotel, Brian. BBC Music Guides : Grieg. London: Ariel Music, BBC Publications, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+ ISBN: 0563204796. 93pp. Musical illustrations No inscriptions. £3.00

[15650] Scholes, Percy A.. The Oxford Companion to Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1944. Fifth edition. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. ISBN: . lix, 1139pp. 179 plates. Text illustrations. Neat inscription on endpaper dated 1944. No dustwrapper. Blue cloth gilt, shelf-sunned. £6.00

[14578] Scholes, Percy A.. The Radio Times Music Handbook. London: BBC/Oxford University Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. xxvii103pp. 4pp. catalogue. Loosely enclosed 1 page programme for a Concert for Schools with Dr. Malcolm Sargent conducting the Liverpool Philharmonic at the Town Hall, Birmingham, 23rd November 1943. Name on endpaper Dustwrapper marked, price intact. Blue cloth gilt. £10.00

[14371] Schubert, Franz. Sonate per Pianoforte Volume I. Milano: G.Ricordi , Paperback. Very Good 148pp. Op. 42,53,120,122,143 and 147 £12.00

[14373] Scriabine. Six Selected Pieces for Piano. London: Edwin Ashdown, 1921. Paperback. Good 15pp. Contains Impromptu A La Mazur, Prelude, Valse In F Minor, Etude In C# Minor, Nocturne In A Major and Mazurka. Decorated colour cover. £5.00

[14807] Shera, F.H.. Debussy and Ravel. London: Oxford University Press, 1943. 4th impression. Paperback. Very Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 60pp. Foyle's Music Dept. stamp on title page, spne slightly worn.. £5.00

[11125] Shore, Bernard. Sixteen Symphonies. London: Longmans Green, 1949. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. xii, 387pp. Erratum slip. 16 portraits. Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. No inscriptions. Original beige cloth gilt, marked. £6.00

[11199] Sidgwick, A.H.. The Promenade Ticket - A Lay Record of Concert-Going. London: Edward Arnold, 1928. 3rd Impression. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 184pp. Name on endpaper. Original orange cloth. £12.00

[11121] Spaeth, Sigmund. A Guide to Great Orchestral Music. New York: The Modern Library, 1943. Hardback. Very Good in poor dustwrapper xii, 532pp. Musical illustrations. Name on endpaper. Original green cloth gilt. £10.00

[8689] Tenschert, Roland. Musikerbrevier. Wien: Wilhelm Frick, 1940. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 296pp. 200 illustrations - 155 plates. Line drawings. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Blue cloth, rubbed/worn o/w VG. £5.00

[11091] Turner, W.J.. Orpheus or The Music of the Future . London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, . Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 95pp. 11pp catalogue. Name on endpaper. Original black paper covered boards with white labels, rubbed on extremities. £10.00

[11124] Wells, H. Wharton. A Handbook of Music and Musicians. London: Thomas Nelson, Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. Nelson's Encyclopaedic Library. 302pp. Illustrated. Musical illustrations. Name on endpaper. A useful small format musical dictionary. Original red cloth gilt. £6.00

[14812] Winn, Cyril. Mendelssohn. London: Oxford University Press, 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good The Musical Pilgrim series. Edited by Dr. Arthur Somervell. 41pp. No inscriptions. £14.00

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