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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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CHINESE MUSIC.
Read before the China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai, November, 1898. (Illustrated, Vocally and Instrumentally, by Natives and Foreigners). Repeated (by request) before the Shanghai Literary and Debating Society, January 4th, 1890.
Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1923. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp.40, paperback (red academic wrappers), b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; light foxing/toning to upper margins of prelims, slight sunning and surface soil to wrappers, slight crease to front wrapper, a very good copy.
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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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EDWARD ELGAR - THE WINDFLOWER LETTERS Correspondence with Alice Caroline Stuart Wortley and her Family.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. 8vo., pp.xv,352, hardcover, gilt, b/w plate; a fine copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, with light creasing to extremities.
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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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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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MYSTERY TRAIN IMAGES OF AMERICA IN ROCK'N'ROLL MUSIC.
London: The Folio Society, 2020. Large 8vo., pp.xxxix, 516, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour illustrations; a fine copy, in a red slipcase with a couple of small marks.
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ODE TO A HIGHFLYING BIRD. My Tribute to the Music of Charlie ‘Yardbird’ Parker.
London: Beat Publications Ltd, 1964. First edition, pocket 8vo., pp.(32), glazed cream hardcover lettered in black, colour-illustrated throughout; small ownership inscription to front free endpaper, ‘Seven Shillings’ label bound in, rubbing and light surface soil to pale boards, small tear to paper covering at foot of upper joint, lower corner of rear board bruised, overall a very good copy of this scarce curio.
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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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PIPING TRADITIONS OF THE INNER ISLES OF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND.
Edinburgh: John Donald, 2012. 8vo.,pp. x,372, paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good copy.
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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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SAINT NICOLAS: A Cantata.
London, Boosey & Co, Ltd. 8vo.,pp.88, pictorial wrappers, musical score throughout; stain to rear of wrappers at foot, lightly creased to spine, ink stamp to title page, a very good copy.
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