MUSIC from Chilton Books

London: Novello & Company Ltd, 1921.. Collection of Nursery Rhymes arranged with pianoforte accompaniment by Cecil J Sharp, illustrated in charming silhouette by Esther B. Mackinnon. 31cms x 24.5cms x 0.5cms. Unpaginated. 18 songs. A few light spots to endpapers. Grey cloth spine with cream silhouette illustrated paper-covered boards, wear to spine edge, minor spotting to boards. Scarce. G+.

New Dehli: Vikas Publishing House, 1995.. With an Introduction by Yehudi Menuhin, and a complete manual on how to play the sitar. "My Music, My Life is more than the story of one man's remarkable life,for it embraces the history and theory of Indian music and the lives of its greatest exponents. A complete manual on the sitar is… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1931.. 1st edition. A critics impression of the qualities of some women singers and what made them remarkable. "This book deals with the lives and careers of the great women singers whom I have heard. It was my good fortune not only to hear but to know personally most of these celebrities… Read more about this item

London: Boosey & Co., 1873.. Royal Edition. Including the Most Favourite of Moore's Irish Melodies, a Large Collection of Old songs and Ballads, with New Symphonies and Accompaniments. 26cms x 18cms. All edges gilt. Pp.192/4(publisher's catalogue), ink number and owner's inkstamp to front free endpaper. Green decorated cloth, gilt title to front and spine, minor edge wear… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street, 1910 .. A very good full leather binding 8vo. pp.xxv/[1p.]/pp.327/[1p.] . Polished red calf with gilt crest to front board. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and green leather title label. Marbled page edges. Pale marbled endpapers. Prize label to verso of the front board: "The Royal School… Read more about this item

London: J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd, 1938.. 5th edition, revised and reset. A Consideration of the Capabilities of the Vocal Cords and their Work in the Art of Tone Production. Pp.xvi/186, 33 figure illustrations, owner's names to front free endpaper. Green cloth, dustwrapper toned and worn to top of spine. G+/G+.

London: Oxford University Press, 1942.. 1st edition. Early ballads, modern ballads, and choral ballads, with a bibliography. Pp.124, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper, signed photograph postcard held with photocorners to inside front board, spotting to endpapers, previous ownership details to front free eendpaper. Maroon clth, gilt title to spine, boards rubbed with uneven fading, wear to… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1968.. 1st edition. "Popular songs have always taken sex as one of their main subjects, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the English were more explicit about it than they are now: they didn't disguise it as "love" and they admitted with relish that it was not only pleasant but also funny....the volume [Pills to… Read more about this item

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1970 .. A very good book with the original dustwrapper. Second edition. pp.vii./[1p.]/pp.392 . 10.0" x 6.25" x 1.5" . Pale dustwrapper with dark blue titles, edges rubbed and chipped, now protected by a removable clear plastic cover. Blue cloth boards with white title to spine, just light rubbing to edges. Couple of tape marks to… Read more about this item

London: Hinrichsen, 1957.. Hinrichsen Fasimile Reprint No.1. Letters of Samuel Wesley to Mr Jacobs, Organist of Surrey Chapel, Relating to the Introduction into this Country of the Works of John Sebastian Bach.. Edited by His Daughter Eliza Wesley. 22cms x 15cms. Pp.50, spotting to preliminaries and occasionally to margins. Stiff card covers, marks to front. Good.

Cologne: Arno Volk Verlag, 1962.. Ex-Library."Circuitous and complicated though the development of medieval polyphony is, it can be followed easily enough on the whole. The most important reason for this is that one aspect of the music, the harmony, is fixed from the start and undergoes no essential change during the whole of the period, most of the progres… Read more about this item

London: Novello and Company Limited, 1961.. Originally printed in 5 volumes, this one volume edition was produced in June 1961. Contains folk songs from the counties of Dorset, Essex, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Devonshire, and Sussex. Music score + lyrics. 25cms x 19cms x 2cms. Pp.234, gift message to half-title page, rear endpaper… Read more about this item

New York: Collier Books, 1962.. New, Revised edition. "Writing lucidly and knowledgeably, the distinguished music critiic of the Chicago Sun-Times defines those powers of mind and musicianship which set Toscanini apart from other conductors of our time and which for millions of listeners, gave his interpretations the quality of revelation." Pp.281. Paperback, sightly rubbed with circular inkstamp to front.… Read more about this item

London: J.Curwen & Sons Ltd, nd. (c.1928).. A Book of Hints on their Organisation, and Business and Musical Management. Sixth edition, Enlarged. Pp.iv/273/3(publisher's catalogue), 1 folding diagram, gift message to inside front board (dated 1928). Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine, edges rubbed. VG.

London: Dennis Dobson Ltd, 1949.. 1st edition. Intended to serve as an introduction to the study of his songs rather than as a full-length biography. Pp.122, portrait frontispiece and further portrait plate, many examples of musical notations, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, sunning to spine. G+.

York: British Poetry-Drama Guild / The Lotus Press, 1949.. 1st edition. A series of personal pen-portraits of: Benjiamino Gigli, Eva Turner, Lauritz Melchior, Toti Dal Monte, Luigi Infantino, Ljuba Welitsch, Paolo' Silveri, Constance Shacklock, Tito Gobbi, and The English Opera Group, with illustrations of the artists presented. Pp.51, 10 black & white photo plates, slight toning to pages. … Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.. Prima Donna puts three hundred years of these remarkable women - from Pasta and Patti to Flagstad and Callas - into their historical and musical context. In it, the author reveals their important creative contribution to the development of opera and the intense personal struggles that were often the price of success." Pp.367, 29 black… Read more about this item

South Croydon: Alfred Lengnick & Co.Ltd, nd.. Simrock's Edition. Includes: 1.To a Nightingale; 2.To a Violet; 3.The Blacksmith; 4.A Hamlet 'Neath the Willows; 5.In Summer Fields; 6.Good Night (serenade); 7.Ever Lighter Grow My Slumbers; 8.Constancy; 9.Love Song; 10.The Sandman; 11.Sapphic Ode; 12.Parting; 13.Sunday; 14.Serenade; 15.True Love; 16.The Vain Suit; 17.Gracious and Kind Art Thou, My Queen; 18.Lullaby;… Read more about this item

London: Alfred Lengnick & Co.Ltd, nd.. English translations by Robert Whistler. English & German words. 31cms x 23.5cms. Pp.63. Paperback, owner's name (singing coach Jean Marshall) to top of front, rubbing to price, wear to top andd tail of spine. G+.

London: London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1955.. Contents: Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. An Outline of European History from 1700 to date by T.O'Dea; A Short History of Orchestral Development by Alec Robertson; Programme Notes of 36 Orchestral Works by George Barker, Alan Gregory, Robin Gregory, H.A.Just, Malcolm Rayment, Denby Richards. Published by the London Philharmonic Orchestra… Read more about this item