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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: A CREATIVE LIFE.
Oxford University Press. 8vo., pp.xv,841, red cloth, gilt; a very good, clean copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, just lightly rubbed to extremities.
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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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FRYDERYK CHOPIN.
A Life and Times.
London: Faber and Faber, 2018. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxxi,727, green hardcover lettered in black; edges toned, light crease to headband, else fresh and near-fine, with pictorial half-wrapper.
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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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SEVENTEEN STRING QUARTETS.
Edition Eulenburg.
London: Ernst Eulenburg Ltd, 1967. Small 8vo., bound in half red roan, gilt, with orange cloth boards, marbled endpapers, b/w frontispiece portrait; ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper verso (dated 1967), leather partially split along upper joint (joint remains firm), sunning and rubbing to spine, internally fresh and otherwise very good.
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