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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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THE PURITANS AND MUSIC.
in England and New England.
London: Oxford University Press, 1934. 8vo., pp.,xxii,428, black hardcover, gilt, b/w photograph frontispiece, b/w illustrations, b/w photos; toning and spotting to top, text block and tail,light foxing to end-papers and front and back paste-down, occasional very light spotting to text,small ink smudge to bottom of page 331, edges worn lightly, pages lightly thumbed,a few light scratches to cover, o/w a very good copy. No 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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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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TREE OF STRINGS: crann nan teud. A history of the harp in Scotland.
Temple: Kinmor Music, 1992. 8vo.,pp. vii,247, paperback, b/w illustrations; creasing to corners, a very good copy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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