[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.

Dressler, Roland / Klecker, Christine.

Zur Geschichte des Freiberger Theaters.

Erstauflage. Chemitz und Dresden, Verlag Klaus Gumnior, 2015. 25 x 22 cm. 320 Seiten. Illustriert. Original Hard Cover. Neuzustand. Mit Inschrift und Signatur Christine Klecker.

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.

Kalkbrenner, Fred. (Friedrich).

Treatise on Harmony for the Pianist. Containing general Principles of Modulation for the Aquirement of the Art of Preluding and of Extemporizing, with Examples of Studies, Fugues, & Preludes for the Piano Forte. Translated from the Original by Robert Lincoln Cocks.

[First English Edition]. London, Messrs Robert Cocks & Co., [1849]. 36 x 26 cm. Engraved title, (2), 63 engraved pages plus 12 pages publishers list. Engraved cardboard soft cover. Very good condition. Covers rubbed and bumped. Age darkened, otherwise very clean and neat. Ex libris of previous owner inside (Alfred G Farmer). A nice copy.

Coward, Noel.

Future Indefinite. Signed and with a handwritten Letter by Coward to FM Alanbrooke. A second volume of autobiography.

First Edition. London, William Heinemann, 1954. 21 x 13 cm. viii, 336 pages. Illustrated. New (2018) black cloth with gilt title on spine. New pale blue end papers. In original unclipped dust jacket. Good condition. Binding and end papers new. Internally mildly foxed / browned, mainly to first and last pages. Tipped intwo-sided hand written and signed letter by Noel Coward to Lord Alanbrooke, in which Coward writes about Alanbrooke’s War Diaries and his own autobiography. Book also inscribed by Coward to Alanbrooke ‘with best wishes and great admiration’. Dust jacket seriously worn with several tears and some paper losses. Now in archival jacket.

Anon.

Irish Presbyterian Church. Tunes & Chants. Staff Notation.

No title page or publishing information. Oblong 12 x 7 cm. viii (TOC), 117 pages with musical scores plus 21 scores in ‘Appendix’. Cloth covered paper covers with embossed title information. Good condition. Half title and title missing. Binding very weak, covers held by a thread. Rubbed and bumped. Dust dulled and minor damp stains. Name of previous owner on verso of front cover.

Cole, Hugo.

Eleven Nursery Rhymes. Wood Engravings by Gwyneth Eedy.

[First Edition]. London, Novello and Company, 1958. 28 x 22 cm. 24 pages of sheet music and B&W Illustrations. Original decorated soft paper covers. Very good condition. Near Fine.

Doering, Carl Heinrich.

Die Grundpfeiler des Clavierspiel’s in Studien und Etueden. Systematisch und practisch bewaehrte Anleitung zur gruendlichen sicheren und schnellen Erwerbung einer soliden Mechanik und Technik des Clavierspiels von Carl Heinrich Doering. Opus 38. In drei Abtheilungen.

Neunte unveraenderte Ausgabe (Ninth Edition). Three Volumes bound in One. Dresden, L. Hoffarth, Not dated, ca. 1900. 33 x 25 cm. (6), 13, Title, (4), 14, Title, (2), 26 pages. New (2019) black cloth with gilt title on spine. New end papers. Very good condition. New binding. Text block dust dulled and browned. Some pages repaired, some tears. A few pencil annotations.

Cramer, J.B. [Johann Baptist – 1771 – 1858] / Herz Henri.

Two Books with Sheet Music for Piano. 1. The Pupil’s Daily Exercise for the Piano Forte containing Scales, Cadences, & c. in the Major & Minor Keys, being the first part of Useful Extracts, Arranged and Fingered by J.B Cramer. 2. Collection De Gammes, Exercises et Passage pour Piano par Henri Herz. No. 6190.

Two volumes bound in one. London, 1. J.B. Cramer & Co. / 2. Schott & Co., Not dated, ca. 1840 & 1900. 34 x 25 cm. 15 pages and 27 pages. Sheet music with some text instructions and two pages of publishers catalogs. Cloth covered stiff cardboard covers. Very good condition in fair binding. Binding seriosuly rubbed, bumped, dicoloured and stained. Candidate for rebinding. Internally some foxing and dust dulling. Some pages annotated in pencil. Names of previous owners on title pages (Anna M. Pelly / Benita [Pelly] 1903).

Manuscript Music Book.

Unpublished. Before 1889. 30 x 23 cm. 20 pages of handwritten music scores – stapled. Plus one losely inserted page of music scores. Decorated blue cardboard covers. Soft cover. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Some fading and discolorations. Name of previous owner on front cover: ‘A.M. Poore’.