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East Grinstead, Sussex: John Deacon, December 1961. First edition. (vi), 116pp; plus a frontis portrait and with photographs in text. 1962 ownership name inside front cover, and compliments slip of the Frank Sinatra Appreciation Society bound in. Contents otherwise clean. 7.7 x 6.3ins, stapled booklet with pictorial card covers and cloth spine. Back cover, with only publisher's details, is foxed. Scarce. VG+.

Price: £29.00

Bideford, Devon: The Rebel Press (and Element Books), 1981. First edition. 173pp. Spine showing where opened too flat at pp54-55. Half title bears the stamped address and 1982 pencilled ownership name of Rosamund Strode, Britten's Musical Assistant, from whose collection the book came. Five pages have biro lines in the margins to mark particular passages: however, those on pp144-5, beside some of Duncan's most shocking remarks, have been tippexed out. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Paperback, in glossy pictorial covers, clean and firm, with minor knocks to the edges, a small crease to the upper corner of the front cover and a heavy crease to the lower corner of the back cover. A very engaging read. Very Good.

Price: £48.00

London: R. Cocks & Co, 1841. Second edition. VOL I: xxxii, 344, +10 + (18) adverts; with portrait frontis; VOL II: (ii), 216pp. Many musical examples in Vol I, and they take up the whole of Vol II. Toning to margins of frontis and intermittent browning and occasional light soiling throughout. In contemporary marbled boards and quarter green grained cloth: both vols have been rebacked with new endpapers and the original paper-labelled spines laid down. Both labels are scuffed, and that of Vol II is largely missing. The boards are rubbed and the corners eroded. Good firm set. VG.

Price: £75.00

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. First edition. xviii, 229pp: with musical illustrations and photographs. Fly leaf bears the June 1987 biro ownership name of Rosamund Strode, Britten's Musical Assistant, who contributed the second chapter. Laid in is an offprint of pp.208-9, the notes to her chapter. Contents otherwise very clean and fresh. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean and bright, firm and sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: very clean but slightly sunned to the spine and back panel. Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £120.00

London: Chatto & Windus, 1921. First edition. xv, 257pp, 16pp Musical Supplement, (ii). Illustrated with 12 plates of photographs, including a guarded frontis portrait. Endpapers browned. Occasional minor foxing, slightly obtrusive on a few pages, and with a couple of spots to closed fore-edge: contents otherwise unmarked. In the original binding of smooth navy cloth titled in gilt. Firm and clean, with extremities slightly bumped. Very Good.

Price: £75.00

Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1884. First Edition. x, (ii), 280pp. Early ownership name on half-title. Contents very clean and fresh. In original binding of blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, spine dulled, ends crimped and slightly nicked, with a short (1cm) tear at the head of the lower joint. Boards firm and quite bright. VG.

Price: £20.00

New York: Random House; with label added to title page: Musicians Press Ltd, London: 1946. Second edition [= first UK edition]. (x), 388pp. Small 1948 gift inscription on front pastdown under jacket flap. Contents otherwise clean. In the original pale blue cloth-textured binding titled in navy, showing slight scuffing and soiling at spine ends and corners. In the protected unclipped black and blue UK jacket, frayed at spine ends with a one-inch chip half way down, 5mm nick at edge of front panel, and big piece torn from top edge of back panel. Hip talk. Very Good in good dust-jacket.

Price: £30.00

London: Preface /Random House, 2008. First edition, first printing. (viii), 213pp, (i); illustrated with photographs, some in colour. Contents clean and unmarked, appears unread. In the original black textured binding with spine titled in gilt: clean and bright with minimal blunting to one corner. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, clean and fresh. Lovely copy. Near Fine in fine dust-jacket.

Price: £26.00

London: James Cochrane, 1835. First (only known) Edition. Lyrics only, no music. 2 Vols, 7" x 4.5", green cloth, rebacked, with the original spines, lettered and decorated in gilt, laid down. Volume II is a few mm taller than Vol I.VOL. I [Songs of England and Ireland]: (lacks half title): (iv)(frontis and additional engraved title, heavily foxed), (iv)(title-page (browned) and dedication leaf), xxxix(introduction), 313pp (with occasional light soiling), (ii)adverts; VOL. II [Songs of Scotland]: (ii)half title, (iv)(frontis (soiled) and additional engraved title (soiled and damaged)), (ii)(title-page, with 1837 ownership name, and, oddly, an attempt to erase the printed "Vol II"), xxxviii(introduction), 362pp, with occasional soiling, some light foxing, and some tanning to the edges.Bindings are tight, clean, and slightly knocked. VG-. Scarce.

Price: £80.00