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A DIRECTORY OF COMPOSERS FOR ORGAN. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition.
Swindon: John Henderson (Publishing) Ltd. 8vo., pp.xii,789, red faux-leather hardcover, gilt; a fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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BACH Essays on his Life and Music
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.14,461, red cloth, gilt, multiple b/w facsimiles of musical scores; internally fresh, no dust-jacket, a very good copy indeed.
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BISHOP AND SON ORGAN BUILDERS.
The Story of J.C. Bishop and his Successors.
Lincoln: Laurence Elvin, 1984. Signed by the author, small 4to., pp.356, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 101 b/w plates to the rear of volume, further in-text illustrations; small typed reference note to front paste-down endpaper, very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and margins.
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EDWARD ELGAR: Letters of a Lifetime.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xviii,524, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; lightly toned, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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EDWARD ELGAR PROVINCIAL MUSICIAN: Diaries 1857-1896.
Edward Elgar: Collected Correspondence, SEries V, Volume I.
Rickmansworth: Elgar Works, 2013. 8vo.,pp. xvii,492, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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FIVE PIANO CONCERTOS. Edition Eulenburg. Op.s 15, 19, 37, 58, 73
London: Ernst Eulenburg, Ltd. 8vo., pp.vi,120,(ii),vi,84,(iv),vii,120,v,141,ix,184,(iv), half leather, gilt, paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece portrait; school bookplate to front free endpaper verso, wear to extremities, with some tears to leather over spine, internally clean, a good working copy.
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FRENCH OPERA: A Short History.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 8vo.,pp. x,366, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a lightly rubbed and soiled pictorial dust-jacket, otherwise very good.
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GUSTAV MAHLER. [Three Volumes] Volume 1 1860-1900, Volume 2 1900-1907, Volume 3 1907-1911
Fayard, 1979. French Language edition, 8vo., pp.1149,1278,1365, volume 1 blue hardcover, volumes 2 and 3 blue cloth, white lettering, b/w plates; a few small marks to front free endpaper and fore-edge of text block, light yellowing to pages of Volumes 1 and 2, volume 3 internally clean and fresh, Volumes 2 and 3 lightly rubbed, a very good set all in very good+ unclipped dust-jackets, a few light marks to volumes 1 and 2, very small area of loss to upper margin of rear jacket of volume 1
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HANDEL: Chronological Thematic Catalogue.
Darley: The Grian-Aig Press, 1972. 8vo.,pp. xii,452, pictorial wrappers, plain brown wrappers with tapped spine, with pictorial dust-jacket, musical score within the text; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, creasing to spine with creased tear to head, adhesive marks to inner folds where dust-jacket has been attached, dust-jacket rubbed and creased to extremities, with chipping to head and foot of spine and tears along front and rear hinge at head extending along rear margin, a good copy.
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JOHN TAVERNER, TUDOR COMPOSER.
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979. 8vo., pp.xvi,283, pictorial cloth, b/w plates; a very good, fresh copy. (No dust-jacket).
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MAHLER'S VOICES.
Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies.
Oxford University Press, 2009. 8vo., pp.xiv,361, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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MAURICE DURUFLE, 1902-1986.
The Last Impressionist.
Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2002. 8vo.,pp. xv,215, pictorial hardcover, b/w plates and figures; lightly sunned to spine, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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MUSIC IN THE ENGLISH COURTLY MASQUE, 1604-1640.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xix,372, navy hardcover, gilt, 15 b/w plates; light toning to edges, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine, and lightly creased to margins.
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MUSICA BRITANNICA A NATIONAL COLLECTION OF MUSIC XCVIII.
Richard Dering Motets and Anthems.
London: Stainer and Bell, 2015. 4to.,pp. xxxi,135, burgundy hardcover, gilt lettering, musical score; neat pencil annotation to front paste down endpaper, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF HENRY PURCELL.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 8vo.,pp. xvi,302, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, tables and figures; brief typed annotation on paper label to front paste down endpaper, otherwise near-fine, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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PURCELL STUDIES.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 8vo.,pp. xii,305, hardcover, yellow title block to spine with black and yellow lettering, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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R.V.W. A BIOGRAPHY OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.
London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 8vo.,pp. xiv,448, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, pictorial endpapers; lightly toned and foxed to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities with wear to head and foot of spine and corners, lightly sunned to spine.
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REASSURING EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PROTESTANTS -
The Librettist’s Intended Message for Handel’s Messiah, Explored Within the Context of Eighteenth Century Belief.
York: Quacks Books, 2017. 8vo., pp.viii,522, paperback; signed by author to title, a fine copy.
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Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary On His Life And Works [Set of Three Volumes]
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978. Corrected reprint, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xv,462;xi,452;xxi,552, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispieces and plates; top edges a little dusty, else a very good, fresh set, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are sunned to spines of Volumes II and III, else very good.
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ROGER NORTH ON MUSIC. Being a Selection from his Essays written during the years c.1695-1728.
London: Novello and Company, 1959. 8vo., pp.xxviii,372, pink cloth with stamped title label to spine, gilt, b/w frontispiece and eight further b/w plates; ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, small note to reverse of frontispiece, some foxing to edges, light sunning and splash-marking to spine, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which shows foxing and light surface soil to the pale paper, as well as chipping at the extremities, good(+).
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