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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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SINGING IN STYLE.
A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices.
USA: Yale University Press, 2006. 8vo., pp.,xii,356, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine fresh copy in very good 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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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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THE MUSIC LIBRARY. Graphic Art and Sound. Featuring over 325 sleeves plus an exclusive CD of rare library recordings.
London: Murray and Sorrell, FUEL, 2005. Oblong 8vo., pp.207(i), hardcover, colour illustrations throughout; light rubbing to extremities, else very good indeed. CD in loose paper case to rear of volume.
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SINGING SIMPKINS AND OTHER BAWDY JIGS. Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage. Scripts, Music and Context.
Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2014. Large 8vo., pp.xii,339, paperback, 14 b/w illustrations; owner’s annotations to front wrapper verso, a couple of further small markings to margins, small indentations to lower edges of text block, very light shelf-wear to extremities, overall a very good, fresh copy.
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THE FURTWANGLER RECORD.
Portland: Amadeus Press, 1996. Reprint, 8vo., pp. 376, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, decorative endpapers; foxing to edges, a few very light spots to endpapers, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy in a vg unclipped 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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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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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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THE HIGHLAND BAGPIPE.
Its History, Literature, and Music, With Some Account of the Traditions, Superstitions, and Anecdotes Relating to the Instrument and its Tunes.
Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1977. Facsimile reprint, small 8vo., pp.420, green hardcover, gilt; slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket.
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THE ORGAN AS A MIRROR OF ITS TIME.
North European Reflections, 1610-2000.
Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xvii,374, brown faux-leather, gilt, with accompanying CD Rom; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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THE KEYBOARD MUSIC OF J.S. BACH.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. 8vo., pp.xv,475, red cloth lettered in silver; fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly sunned to spine.
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WILLIAM BYRD. Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xvi,480, green hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; slight bowing to front board, with slight bruising to lower corner of front board, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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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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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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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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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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