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Lewes, East Sussex: Glyndebourne A near Fine copy of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera programme for 2001 - 17 May - 26 August 2001. Operas are Fidelio - Beethoven; A Midsummer Night's Dream - Britten; Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart; The Makropulos Case - Janacek; Otello - Verdi; The Last Supper - Birtwistle. … Read more about this item

London: Elm Tree, 1986. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front endpaper with dedication. Gold title on blue boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally slight age toning to page edges else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is not price-clipped. The Irish singer's second autobiography continuing on from 'The Special Years' illustrated with photographs and drawings by him. Val… Read more about this item

Lewes, East Sussex: Glyndebourne A near Fine copy of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera programme for 1979. Operas are Fidelio - Beethoven; Il Ritorno D'Ulisse in Patria - Monteverdi; Die Schweigsame - Strauss; Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart; La Fedelta Premiata - Haydn. D4F. First. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15"… Read more about this item

London: W.H. Allen, 1975. Brown boards with gold title is clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age toning to top and fore edge else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has age toning to the reverse with just a light touch of wear to corner tips and is not price clipped. 192 pages. 71 photographs. The wartime's… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little light spotting to top edge) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 182 pages. Wagner Family Tree. This is the first Wagner dictionary with the emphasis on interpretation as well as information. It lists all his operas, all the characters, the main… Read more about this item

London: Quercus, 2013. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. xv + 336 pages. 23 illustrations. Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face who was able to persuade fifties white America that she was the sexiest thing it had ever seen. Extraordinarily versatile in her… Read more about this item

London: Orion, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 151 pages. Illustrated throughout. Authorised by her parents Hugh and Barbara Cassidy. Once in a while a voice comes along that is so extraordinary and magical it touches people's lives in a deeply personal way. When Terry Wogan played Eva Cassidy's version of… Read more about this item

Bolton: Aurora, 1996. A near Fine unmarked copy in laminated boards with near Fine dustjacket. The word 'carol' comes from the old French, carole, a type of song originally written and played as a courtly dancing song. Carols gradually assumed a more popular form, telling stories and celebrating religious themes for all seasons until the late 19th century, when… Read more about this item

London: B.T. Batsford, 1979. A near Fine copy which has a gift inscription to front pastedown with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 192 pages. The author's historical commentaries and quotations from contemporary writers set the scene for each of the 82 ballads and explain any otherwise obscure allusions. The book is lavishly… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 264 pages lavishly illustrated with colour photographs. The book draws together the intertwined tales behind two of popular music's most remarkable stories: the songs of ABBA, and the record-breaking show that gave those songs a fresh… Read more about this item

London: Joseph Williams, 1920. Grey cloth boards have a crease to front and internally there is light foxing to fore edge and endpapers else a very clean, tight and unmarked copy. vii + 304 pages. Musical notation throughout. The author was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. The book is three books in one: Book I… Read more about this item

London: Mitchell Beazley, 1982. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 384 pages. 350 illustrations. Music in time is about music and the men and women who wrote it and played it. It sets music against the backdrop of the times in which it was created, tracing its development from the earliest rhythms and… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy in red laminated boards with Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 112 pages. 250 illustrations, 100 in colour. The nostalgic French popular songs of the modern era instantly bring back memories of St. Germain's smoky night clubs, of Edith Piaf singing her heart out and bringing tears to the… Read more about this item

London: George G. Harrop, 1957. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with dustjacket which has wear to edges and a repaired closed tear and is not price clipped. 160 pages. 17 illustrations. This is a history of opera from its origins in 1600: from Peri and Monteverdi to Lully and Purcell, then through Handel and Gluck to its zenith, and… Read more about this item

Bath: Parragon, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 384 pages. 600 photographs. The book chronicles the heady years in which the group bestrode the pop world like a colossus. The 600 fabulous photographs, taken by Associated Newspapers' photographers, include over 200 from negatives never previously printed and are published here for… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1961. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with just a touch of light foxing to endpapers. Dustjacket is not price clipped. 256 pages. A less than conventional biography which is a frank and sincere account of a musical and spiritual pilgrimage, of a personality developed through unexpected experiences, especially in the East. He… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1957. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a strip of age toning to endpapers with dustjacket which has a repaired closed tear and is not price clipped. 320 pages. In his first book devoted exclusively to music for twelve years, Neville Cardus ranges at large over the music scene, which he has described with such grace… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. A Very Good + unmarked copy which has a decorative bookplate to front endpaper and a little light foxing to fore edge. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped. 248 pages. 19 illustrations. Part of the manuscript of Liszt's first Ballade and plaster cast of his right hand to front endpaper and map of Liszt's… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Panjandrum/Aris Books, 1978. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition. 256 pages. 27 illustrations. The Menuhins is the story of a miraculous family of great musicians and religious leaders. It is told here for the first time by the nephew of Yehudi Menuhin, the great violinist. Elements of the… Read more about this item

London: Christie's, 2002. A Fine unmarked copy. Catalogue of the auction of Pop Memorabilia, Thursday 3 October 2002 held at Christie's South Kensington, London. 384 lots colour illustrated. Including John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Andy Warhol items. A1F. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.