Milton ‘Mezz’ Mezzrow / Bernard Wolfe.

Really the Blues.

London, The Jazz Book Club, 1959. 20 x 12.5 cm. (6), 388 pages. Original cloth hard cover with title and decorations. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Spine faded. Internally clean.

Nicholson, Sydney H.

Parish Psalter with Chants. With Psalms of David Pointed for Chanting.

Croydon, The Royal School of Church Music, 1989. 8°. 236 pages. Original Hardcover. 1989 Reprint of the original Edition from 1932. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Rare !

Nietzsche, Friedrich / Ludovici, Anthony M[ario].

The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche contra Wagner. A Musician’s Problem. A Letter from Turin, May 1888. / The Brief of a Psychologist. / Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici.

[Assumed First UK Edition]. Edinburgh and London, T.N. Foulis, 1910. 18.5 x 13.5 cm. ix, 82 pages plus five pages publishers list. Original illustrated paper wrappers. Soft covers. Fore edge deckle. See images. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped.Front cover detached. Small paper losses to top of spine. Edges dust dulled. Occassional mild foxing. Some annotations in pencil by previous owner, possibly the Translator.

Parfitt, Richard.

Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848-1972. Routledge Studies in Cultural History.

First Edition. New York and London Routledge, 2020. Octavo. xiii, 285 pages. Original laminted boards. Hard cover. As new. A bright and clean copy with minimal shelf wear.

Rubinstein, Arthur.

Mein Glückliches Leben.

Frankfurt, S. Fischer, 1980. 21.9cm x 14.7cm. 792 Seiten. Mit 51 Illustrationen. Original Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Guter Zustand mit einigen Gebrauchsspuren am Umschlag.

[Schubert, Franz] Wheeler, Opal / Deucher, Sybil.

Franz Schubert and his Merry Friends. Illustrated by Mary Greenwalt.

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1960, 24.4cm x 19cm. 120 pages. With illustrations and music sheets. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear along with staining on some of the first couple of pages.

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. [Sotheby’s].

Music. Catalogue of Printed & Manuscript Music, Books on Music & Musical Instruments.

London, Sotheby’s, 1977. 154 pages plus Index. Illustrated in colour and B&W. Losely inserted price list for the auction. Original green wrappers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. See image.

Stevenson, Sir John (music) / Moore, Thomas (text).

A Selection of Irish Melodies. With Symphonies and Accompaniment by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc. and Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esq’r.

[First Editions]. 5th & 6th Number bound into one Volume. London & Dublin, Printed and Sold at J. Power’s Music & Instrument Warehouse & at W. Power’s Music Warehouse, [1813 & 1815]. 34.5 x 24.5 cm. (2) [blank], tissue guarded engraved title page, (4) [dedication & index], 52 pages, engraved music scores / title page, advertisement, pages numbered 52 to 113. Full page engraving between pages 77 and 78. New half cloth over decorated paper covered boards. Contemporary red morroco label [‘Mrs. T. Moore’] from original binding on front board. Good condition only. New solid binding. Internally seriously age darkened and damp stained. See images for a clear idea of the condition. Gift inscription on first blank page (see comments below). Partially trimmed inscription on top of second title page (6th Number), possibly by the author?

Stockdale, Freddie.

Emperors of Song – Three Great Impresarios. [Colonel James Mapleson (1830-1901) / Oscar Hammerstein I (1846-1919) / John Christie (1882-1962)].

First Edition. London, John Murray, 1998. 24.2cm x 16.4cm. X, 214 pages. With 26 illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Strauss, Johann] Gartenberg, Egon.

Johann Strauss – The End of an Era.

New York, Da Capo Press, Inc., 1979. 22.9cm x 15cm. XIII, 360 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.