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.

[Strauss, Johann] Jacob, H.E.

Johann Strauss – Father and Son, A Century of Light Music. Translated by Marguerite Wolff.

USA, The Greystone Press, 1940. 23.8cm x 16cm. 385 pages. With illustrations and music sheets. Original Hardcover. Good condition with signs of external wear and small open tear.

Thomson, George (Editor), Burns, Robert, Scott Sir Walter et al.

Thomson’s Collection of the Songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Bart. And other eminent lyric Poets Ancient and Modern. United to the Select Melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. With Symphonies & Accompaniments for the Piano Forte by Pleyel, Haydn, Beethoven &c. The Whole composed for & collected by George Thomson F.A.S. Edinburgh.

Volumes 1 & 2. London, Printed & Sold by Preston, Hurst, Robinson & Co., [1822]. 25 x 18 cm. Each volume contains 50 song lyrics with accompanying musical notation, and a leaf of index at the end. Vol.1 also a Preface (ii) and a 19 page ‘Dissertation concerning the National Melodies of Scotland’. Later fine half calv over marbled boards. Gilt decorations. Red spine label with gilt title. See images. Very good condition. Fine bindings with minimal shelf wear. Internally age darkened. Some edge wear and occasional mild foxing. See images. Name of previous owner on both title pages. Neat gift inscription in volume 1, dated 1828. Overall a very attractive set.

Thomson, George (Editor), Burns, Robert, Scott Sir Walter et al.

Thomson’s Collection of the Songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Bart. And other eminent lyric Poets Ancient and Modern. United to the Select Melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. With Symphonies & Accompaniments for the Piano Forte by Pleyel, Haydn, Beethoven &c. The Whole composed for & collected by George Thomson F.A.S. Edinburgh.

Volumes 1, 3 & 5 bound together in one volume. London, Printed and Sold by Preston, Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1822. 25 x 17 cm. Each volume contains 50 song lyrics with accompanying musical notation, and a leaf of index at the end. Vol.1 also a Preface (ii) and a 19 page ‘Dissertation concerning the National Melodies of Scotland’. Contemporary hald calf over paper covered boards. Spine label with gilt title. Very good condition. Binding seriously rubbed and bumped. Some damage to top of spine (see images). Front free end paper missing. Internally agae darkened.

Västgöta Nations Sångbok.

Limited Edition 387/1400. Uppsala, Västgöta Nation i Uppsala, 1943. 16.5 x 11 cm. 109 pages. Very good condition. Some inscriptions, and ephemera, as shown in images. Very nice.

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.

[Weill, Kurt] Kotschenreuther, Hellmut.

Kurt Weill.

Berlin, Max Hesses Verlag, 1962. 21.5cm x 15.2cm. 103 pages. With Illuatrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Wolkonsky, Prince Serge.

My Reminiscences.

First Edition. London, Hutchinson, [1924]. 23 x 15 cm. Vol.1: 313 pages w/ eight Illustrations / Vol.2: 276 pages w/ eight Illustrations -complete. Original dark blue cloth. Gilt titles. Inside original pale blue dust jackets, now inside clear archival jackets. Near fine in very good dust jackets. Losely inserted letter by Peter Wolkonsky M.D., dated 1992. Also losely inserted two newspaper clippings about the dicovery of the Tsarist graves in 1992. A very nice set. See images.

Yeats, W.B. / Stephens, James / Higgins, F.R. / O’Connor, Frank et al.

Broadsides 1935. A Collection of Old and New Song. Songs by W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, F.R. Higgins, Frank O’Connor, Lynn Doyle, Bryan Guiness, Padraic Colum. Illustrattions by: Jack B. Yeats, Victor Brown, Sean O’Sullivan, E.C. Peet, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal. Music by Arthur Duff.

Photo-Lithographic Reprint of the First Cuala Press Edition. Shannon, Ireland, T.M.MacGlinchey for the Irish University Press, Robert Hogg – Printer, 1971. 29 x 21 cm. 64 unnumbered pages, incl. blanks and title page. Illustrated. Quarter cloth over green paper covered boards. Hard cover. Black title on front board. In original plain paper jacket. Green end papers. Fine in very good dust jacket. Very mildly age darkened. Dust jacket with minor edge wear and and short tears. See images. Internally clean. A very nice copy.