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Barbara and Findlay Mackenzie: Singers of Australia from Melba to Sutherland

CODE: 100905

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Sydney. Newnes Books. 1968.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Large 8vo. xvii/ 309 pages. Black and white photographs throughout. Colour plate of Dame Nellie Melba on frontis.

Fine / Fine condition

Benvenuto Cellini: Le Opere di Benvenuto Cellini Arricchite di Note ed Illustrazioni - Volume Unico

CODE: 1711081

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Firenze. Societa Editrice Fiorentina. 1843.

Quarter period calf leather binding with marbled covers. Italian text. Hardback. 4to. (18.5cm x 26.6cm), 600 pages. Owners name on blank end page, Fr. Daniele Maria Callus de Pred. Some foxing / brown spots throught. End pages may have been replaced. Ex library, Hawkesyard Priory. Library stamp on title page and remains of glue to base of spine. Wear to edges and bottom edge of the front cover.

Good + condition

H M Walbrook: Gilbert and Sullivan Opera - A History and a Comment

CODE: 101886

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London. F V White & Co. 1922.

Blue cloth with black and gilt decoration. Hardcover. No dust jacket. 12mo. 155 pages + 3 pages of adverts. Illustrated throughout by H. M. Bateman and W. H. Holloway with a foreword by Sir Henry Wood. Decorated end pages. A few small spots of foxing to first few pages and page edges. Soiling to spine. Slight corner and edge wear.

Very Good condition

J. Cuthbert Hadden: The Operas of Wagner - Their Plots and History

CODE: 101859

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London. T C and E C Jack. 1910.

Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 15.5cm x 20.8cm. viii/ 246 pages. Twenty four plates in colour from drawings by Byam Shaw. Gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine. Two owners names to front end page dated 1913 & 1933. Slight foxing throughout. Some darkening to spine. head and foot of spine bumped.

Very Good condition

John Gay: Polly - An Opera

CODE: 100753

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London. Chapman and Hall. Ltd. 1923.

Hardcover. No dust jacket. 12mo. 64 pages. This being the Sequel to The Beggars Opera now Freely Adapted by Clifford Bax. Owners name and date. March 2nd 1923 inscribed on front end page. Some soiling to covers and spine. Page 64 inscribed in ink London 14 March 1923. A few odd spots of foxing to page edges but pages internally are clean. Top and bottom edge of front cover is sunned.

Good + condition

Kathleen Ferrier: A Memoir

CODE: 110579

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London. Hamish Hamilton. 1954.

First edition, 4th impression. Hardback. Dust jacket. 125 pages. 8vo. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Photographs. Tear to corner of dust jacket and slight wear on bottom edge. rubbing to back.

Very Good + / Good + condition

Luisa Tetrazzini: How to Sing

CODE: 2111087

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London. C Arthur Pearson. 1923.

First Edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. (14.5cm x 22cm), 126 pages. Frontis, portrait of author. Dust jacked torn (20% loss), stained and spine darkened. Cloth cover worn on top edge and head and foot of the spine.

Very Good / Poor condition

Nadia Stancioff: Maria Callas Remembered

CODE: 100575

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London. Sidgwick and Jackson. 1988.

First UK edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Tall 8vo. 264 pages. Some black and white illustrations. Pictorial dustwrapper unclipped, slightly creased at edges with minor water mark at corner. Two tiny holes at front. Black cloth covers a little rubbed. Page edges grubby. Paper yellowing.

Very Good / Very Good condition

Pierre-Jean Remy: Maria Callas - A Tribute

CODE: 110765

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London. Macdonald & Janes. 1978.

Hardback. Dust jacket. 4vo. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. 192 pages. Dust jacket rubbed with gilding on cover and spine worn away. Owners name on front end page. Tears to the title page of chapter one. Owners name on blank front end page. Prelim page cut with 45% loss.

Good + / Good + condition

Richard Capell: Opera

CODE: 100497

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London. Ernest Benn Ltd. 1948.

Second edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Large 16mo. 132 pages. Dark green cloth covers. title details gilt on spine. Pictorial light coloured dustwrapper soiled, rubbed and nicked with small tears. Contents clean with faded endpapers.

Good + / Good + condition

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