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Opera Synopses - A guide to the plots & characters of the standard Operas

McSpadden, J. Walker · 1928 · Books & Bygones

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Book Good Poor Harrap London 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 4.25 x 7"; 367 pages; blue cloth with black titles; dustwrapper, rather browned, and top 1.5" of spine is missing; This enlarged edition comprises Eighty-six Synopses of which Twenty-three are included for the first time;...

Recorded Music 1939-40

No Author · 1939 · Books & Bygones

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Book Good HMV His Masters Voice London 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 5 x 7"; 477 pages; paperback; browned but very good;

Beggar's Opera, The - To which is Prefixed the Musick to each Song

Gay, Mr. · 1921 · Books & Bygones

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Book Very Good New Impression William Heinemann London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 6 x 10"; 18 pages introduction + 93 pages; yellow boards with black title on green label to front; black cloth spine with black title on white label; colour frontispiece + 7 colour plates all with...

Nonsense Songs & Stories

Lear, Edward · 1894 · Books & Bygones

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Book Good Reading Copy No Jacket - as issued Ninth and Revised Edition Frederick Warne London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 6.75 x 8.5"; 144 pages; brown boards with gilt/black titles and black/green/yellow illustrations to front board; a loose copy, which could be made good;

Rock 'N' Roll Years, The

No Author · 1989 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Very Good Wise and Music Sales London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 9 x 12"; 95 pages; illustrated laminated card covers; vg/-; words and scores for 35 songs;

Play & Sing Folksinger's Guitar Course

d'Auberge, Alfred and Manus, Morton · 1964 · Books & Bygones

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Book Good Alfred Music New York 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 9 x 12"; 64 pages; illustrated card covers, small biro mark to bottom front edge; g/-; songs and scores; A complete guitar course for folk singers - chords and melody notes are learned together using folk songs;

Elton John

Tatham, Dick & Jasper, Tony · 1976 · Books & Bygones

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Book Illustrated Very Good Good Octopus London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 9 x 12"; 91 pages; blue boards with black title; dustwrapper, priceclipped; vg/g; illustrated;

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Apel, Willi · 1976 · Books & Bygones

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Book Very Good Very Good First Edition Heinemann London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 7 x 10"; 935 pages; red cloth with gilt title to spine; dustwrapper in protective film; vg/vg;

Dictionary of Composers and their Music - Every Listener's Companion Arranged Chronologically and Alphabetically, The

Gilder, Eric and Port, June G. · 1978 · Books & Bygones

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Book Very Good Very Good Paddington Press New York 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 6 x 9.5"; 406 pages + timeline section; black cloth with gilt title; dustwrapper; vg/vg;

Opera on Record

Blyth, Alan (edited by) · 1979 · Books & Bygones

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Book Very Good Very Good Fifth Edition Hutchinson London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 6.25 x 9.5"; 663 pages; black cloth with gilt; dustwrapper in protective film; vg/vg; discographies compiled by Malcolm Walker;

Music in Western Civilization

Láng, Paul Henry · 1963 · Books & Bygones

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Book Good Good Dent London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 6.25 x 9.5"; 1107 pages; black cloth with gilt titles to red background and gilt decorations; dustwrapper, slightly faded to spine; g/g;

Bird's-eye History of Music, A

Reeser, Eduard · 1950 · Books & Bygones

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Book Very Good No Jacket Continental Book Company Stockholm 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 7.75 x 10.5"; 87 pages + index + fold out chart to rear; brown boards with black title and white music score decorations; no dustwrapper; vg/-. Not dated. but appears c1950.

Sounds of Music - A study of orchestral texture.

Hopkins, Antony · 1982 · Books & Bygones

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Book Very Good Very Good Dent London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 6 x 9.5"; 170 pages; black cloth with gilt title to spine; dustwrapper; vg/vg;

Fourteen Songs from When We Were Very Young

Milne, A. A., Fraser-Simpson, H. and Shepard, E. H. · 1928 · Books & Bygones

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Book Good Reading Copy No Jacket Twelfth Edition Methuen London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 10 x 12"; 34 pages; brown boards with beige cloth spine, title to white label on front board; some loose pages, but complete; words and scores;

Illustrated Eric Clapton, The

Giuliano,Geoffrey · 1994 · Books & Bygones

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Book Very Good Very Good First Edition Chartwell Books New York Folio - over 12" - 15" tall 9.5" x 12"; 96pp; black pictorial laminated board with white and red title to spine; dustwrapper same as board depicting picture of Clapton in red shirt playing guitar; vg/vg; colour an...

Companion to Twentieth Century Opera, The

Martin, George · 1989 · Books & Bygones

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Book Very Good John Murray London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 6 x 9"; 653 pages; large format paperback; very good;

Horati Opera

No Author · 1888 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Good Reading Copy No Jacket - as issued Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. London 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 4 x 6.5"; 302 pages; white, grubby, buckram with red titles to spine and front board; top edge gilt, other edges uncut; good tight copy; text is Italian;

Les merveilles de la Musique - Traduction de Chantal Roux de Bezieux

Alberti, Luciano · 1965 · Books & Bygones

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Book Good Deux Coqs d'Or Paris 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 8 x 11"; 183pp; illustrated laminated boards; no dustwrapper; French text; illustrated; good copy;

Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri

Gilbert, W. S. and Sullivan, Arthur · Books & Bygones

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Book Good Chappell London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 5.5 x 8.5"; 37pp; paperback; text only. Not dated.

Gondoliers or The King of Barataria, The

Gilbert, W. S. and Sullivan, Arthur · Books & Bygones

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Book Good Chappell London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 5.5 x 8.5"; 46pp; paperback; text only. Not dated.