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.

Bond, Hugh (Editor) / Handel, G.F. / Purcell, H. / Dr. Boyce / Dr. Howard et al.

The Psalms of David in Metre. Adapted to every Sunday throughout the year and to the Principle Fasts and Festivals of the Church of England…

London, Presten & Son, ND [1787-1809]. 24 x 17 cm. Title, Dedication, Preface, Table & Index, 128 engraved pages. Musical scores. Contemporary paper covered boards. New (2025) spine and end papers. Gilt title. Very good condition. Dust dulled throughout. See images.

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?

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.

Laver, James (Editor) / Goetz, Walter (Illustrator).

Memorable Balls.

First Edition. London, Derek Verschoyle, 1954. 28 x 21 cm. xi, 116 pages. Colour Plates. Original dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust age darkened. Internally clean.

An t-Athair Padruig Breathnach.

Songs of the Gael. A Collection of Anglo-Irish Songs and Ballads. Wedded to Old Traditional Irish Airs. No. 1-12.

Dublin, Browne and Nolan, ND [1915]. 15 x 12 cm. xiii, 384 pages. Original decorated cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Binding weak. Front hinge open. Single stamp on front free end paper and on title page. Edges dust dulled. Internally clean.

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.

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.

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.

[Macfarquhar, Colin & Gleig, George – Chief Editors]

Encyclopaedia Britannica. Three Plates Volumes with 460 Plates. Volumes 1, 3 & 4 (including the Plates issued as a Supplement in 1801-03.

Third Edition & Supplement to 3rd Edition. Three volumes of four. [Edinburgh], [Privately published by Andrew Bell, Archibald Constable & Colin Macfarquhar], [1788 – 1803]. c. 26 x 20 cm. Vol.1: Plates 1 – 161 / Vol. 3: Plates 292 – 446 / Vol. 4: Plates 447 – 542 and 1 – 50. See comments below for noted ‘anomalies’. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Red spine labels with gilt title. Gilt decorations and volume numbers in gilt. Very good condition. Bindings rubbed and bumped with wear to spine and ends and corners (see images). Edges age darkened. Joints cracked, but bindings remain sound. Spine leather dried and cracked. Internally dust dulled, but generally clean. A few closed tears and some edge wear to some plates. Overall a very nice collection of more than 450 plates. See images.

Yeats, W.B. / Stephens, James / Belloc, Hilaire / O’Connor, Frank et al.

Broadsides 1937. A Collection of New Irish and English Songs 1937. Songs by: W.B. Yeats, W.J. Turner, Oliver Gogarty, Hilaire Belloc, Dorothy Wellesley, James Stephens, Edith Sitwell, Frank O’Connor, Gordon Bottomley, F.R. Higgins, Padraic Colum, Walter De La Mare. Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Victor Brown, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal. Music by W.J Turner, Arthur Duff, Edmund Dulac, Frank Liebich, Hilda Matheson, Art O’Murnaghan, Hilair Belloc.

Photo-Lithographic Reprint of the First Cuala Press Edition. Shannon, Ireland, T.M. McGlinchey for the Irish University Press, Robert Hogg – Printer, 1971. 29 x 21 cm. 64 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. Very good in very good dust jacket. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Dust jacket creased, mildly stained and with short tears. Internally very clean. See images.

Yeats, W.B. / Stephens, James / Belloc, Hilaire / O’Connor, Frank et al.

Broadsides 1935 and 1937.

Photo-Lithographic Reprints of the First Cuala Press Editions. Two Volumes. Shannon, Ireland, T.M. McGlinchey for the Irish University Press, Robert Hogg – Printer, 1971. 29-21 cm. Both Volumes: 64 pages, incl. blanks and title pages. Illustrated. Quarter cloth over green paper covered boards. Hard cover. Black title on front board. In original plain paper jacket. Green end papers. Fine and very good in very good dust jackets. For exact descriptions please go to westcoastrarebooks.com and search for items 103459 & 103460.

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.

Handel, G.F. [George Frederic] / [Händel, Georg Friedrich].

The Occasional Oratorio in Score. Composed in the Year 1745 by G.F. Handel.

No publisher information. Assumed to be: London, (No. 99-105) Arnold’s edition (Smith). ND: ca. 1791. 35 x 26 cm. 270 pages [TP, Score. TOC]. All pages engraved. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped with some material losses to spine ends and corners (see images). Internally mildly age darkened. Clean and complete score.

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.

Moore, Gerald.

Am I Too Loud? Memoirs of an Accompanist.

First Edition. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1962. 21 x 14 cm. 304 pages. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Original blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Inside original decorated dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Dust jacket with edge wear and fraying at spine ends and corners, now inside archival jacket. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.

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.

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.

By the Writers of “The Nation”.

The Spirit of the Nation. Ballads and Songs by the Writers of “The Nation” with Original and Ancient Music. Arraged for the Voice and Piano-Forte.

Dublin, Published by James Duffy, 1846. 21 x 17 cm. vi, 347 pages. With musical scores. Original green cloth with gilt title and decorations. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Age darkened. Binding weak. Neat gift inscription on verso of front free end paper. Internally dust dulled and occasionally spotted. Minor staining in places. See images.

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

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.

[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.

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.

Harding, James.

Jaques Offenbach. A Biography.

London, John Calder, 1980. 15 x 23 cm. 274 pages. Original cloth with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minimal signs of usage on dustjacket. Postcard with Offenbach portrait inside. [Opera Library].

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 !

[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.

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.

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’.

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.

Botkin, B.A.

A Treasury of American Folklore. Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People.

Third Printing. New York, Crown Publishers, 1944. 21 x 14 cm. xxvii, 932 pages. Original blue cloth with gilt dragon on front board and gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Front free end paper missing. Some shelf wear. Binding and edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.