Casserly, James.

Patrician Musical Society 1952 – 2006 [Signed].

First Edition. 181 pages. Original hard cover, inside original dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author.

Anon.

Programme of the “Good Samaritan” Performance Promoted by Madame Sarah Bernhardt. In Aid of the French Hospital in London, and of Lord Lonsdale’s special Appeal for Funds for the Charing Cross Hospital, held at the London Coliseum Saturday Evening, October 11th, 1913. Under the most gracious Patronage of their Majesties the King & Queen & Members of the Royal Family.

[London], No publishing information, [1913]. 27 x 20 cm. 48 unnumbered pages, printed on heavy textured paper. With many tipped in photographs in B&W. Gilt decorations. Silk covered boards with gilt crest on front bopard. Hand cover. Text block held place by silk string. Gilt dentelles Good condition. Voards worn and dust dulled. Silk covers torn at the edges (see images). Internally dust dulled, otherwise in very good clean condition.

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.

[Koussevitzky, Hugo] Leichtentritt, Hugo.

Serge Koussevitzky – The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New American Music.

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1947. 21.5cm x 14.5cm. 199 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

[Beecham, Thomas] Cardus, Neville.

Sir Thomas Beecham. A Memoir.

First Edition. London, Collins, 1961. 21.5cm x 14.5cm. 125 (4) pages. Frontispiece photograph of Beecham. Includes photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Davidson, Gladys.

Standard Stories from the Operas.

London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1935. 19 x 13 cm. xvi, 1048 plus publishers list. Original red cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Blind decorations. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. A nice copy.

Wagner, Richard / Corder, H.&F. (translators).

Text Books / Librettos for Nine Wagner Operas bound in four Volumes. Consisting of: Vol.1: Das Rheingold (The Rhine-Gold) & Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) / Vol.2: Siegfried & Götterdämmerung (The Dusk of the Gods) / Vol.3: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg) / Vol.4: Parsifal / Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg / Der Fliegende Holländer / Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen. Volumes 1-3 in GERMAN & ENGLISH. Volume 4 Plays are in GERMAN only!

Four uniform volumes. Mainz (Mayence) & Dresden, B.Shott’s Soehne & C.F. Meser. 1882, 1882, 1880, ND. c. 16 x 10 cm. Vol. 1: 75 & 75, 84 & 84 pages. Vol.2: 98 & 98, 86 & 86 pages. Vol. 3: 135 & viii, 135 pages. Vol. 4: 62, 42, 40 & 48 pages. Uniform red morroco with gilt titles on front boards. Blind and gilt line decorations. Name of previous owner (‘Queenie Mason’) on all four front boards in gilt. Decorative end papers. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Some plays slightly age darkened. Name of previous owner neatly inscribed. A very nice set in uniform bindings.

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.

Lytton, Sir Henry [Gilbert & Sullivan]

The Immortal Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Containing the Stories of the Plays and the Words and Music of Famous Numbers from Each Opera. With an Appreciation by Sir Henry Lytton.

Four Volumes. London, The News Chronicle Publications Dept., Not dated (c. 1920s). 28 x 22.5 cm. Original red cloth with blue and yellow decorations. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally clean.

Kipling, Rudyard / German, Edward (Music).

The Just So Song Book. Being Songs from Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German.

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1918. 30 x 24 cm. 62 pages. Original decorated red cloth. Hard cover. Black decorations and title on spine. Very good condition. Boards, corners and spine rubbed and bumped. Some abrasion to the top of the front board (see image). Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally bright and clean.