Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd (and Simpkin et al, London), 1913. First edition. Hardcover. viii, (9-) 104pp, illustrated with 4 photographs. Contents clean but for a pencilled addition to the list of headmasters on the final page, a little faint foxing to the title page, and edge foxing to the last..... More
![Serbian Folk Songs Fairy Tales and Proverbs. [Inscribed Copy]. Maximilian A. Mugge](/pictures/thumb/19163050.jpg?v=1542314788)
London: Drane's, n.d. [1916]. First edition. Hardcover. 167pp, including a bibliography and a few pages of music. Front free endpaper bears a neat 1918 gift inscription by the author, followed by this note: 'Written under the auspices of the Serbian Government. The author's royalties go to the Berkshire home for..... More
London: Cassell, 1923. First edition. Paperback. [iv], 152pp, illustrated. Contents clean, with some soiling to title page. 8vo, with thin red card covers, battered but made good, illustrated to the front, adverts to rear and inside. With new red spine and label. More
London: Ove Arup & Partners, 1967. Paperback. 28pp, including covers. A4 stapled booklet, 296 x 210mm, printed on glossy paper, richly illustrated with monochrome photographs and plans, and giving an account of Arup's project to convert the Snape Maltings into the Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Sugden supervised the acoustics. Contents..... More
London: Panther Books Ltd / Granada Publishing, 1974. First edition. Paperback. Paperback. The original Panther first edition. 159pp, plus 8pp of photos. Binding intact, pages toned, unmarked and clean. The black pictorial covers have taken a little wear: bright, slightly creased, scuffed at the joints, and with small creases at..... More
![Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music. [Hardcover]. Barry Lazell, Dafydd Rees](/pictures/thumb/19827070.jpg?v=1542314961)
London & New York: Proteus Books, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 96pp, illustrated with colour & monochrome photographs. Contents unmarked and fresh. Quarto, in the original binding of red cloth, spine titled in gilt, all firm, bright and clean. Lower corners and head of spine slightly blunted. In the protected pale..... More
London: Ernst Eulenberg, 1983. First English edition. Paperback. 140pp, with a frontis portrait and a list of compositions. Very fresh, unread copy, free of marks. 22.5x15cms, in pictorial glossy card covers. These are similarly fresh, though with a small knock to the bottom corner of the front cover, and a...... More
Aldeburgh: The Aldeburgh Foundation and the Britten-Pears Library, 1987. First edition. Paperback. 80pp. Quarto stapled booklet. Contents clean and unmarked. Thin card covers printed navy and orange. Small crease to bottom corner and very light rubbing to spine. Very nice copy. More
Stowmarket: Veteran Tapes, 1992. First edition. Paperback. [vi], 163pp, illustrated with photographs. Pages in very fresh unread condition. Pale ochre pictorial covers, firm, square and bright, with a few marks on the back cover. Very scarce! More
Ventura, California: Creative Concepts Publishing Corporation, 1999. First edition. Softcover. 240pp. Music preceded by short introductions: illustrated with a few photographs. Contents fresh and clean. Ownership name to title page. Large format glossy softcover 30.2x22.7cms: clean and square, appears unused, but with a 2mm tiny surface nick to the photo..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press / CUP, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, [ii], 301pp, with musical illustrations. Contents very fresh and clean, appears unread. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and sharp. In the protected pictorial dust jacket, crisp and bright and as new. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press / CUP, 2006. First paperback edition. Paperback. xv, 436pp, illustrated. Contents clean and fresh, appears unread. Large-format paperback, 24.2x17cms: mauve pictorial covers fresh and sharp. As new. More
2013. Softcover. Quarto softcover, 144pp, richly illustrated. Fresh, clean and sharp, with small crease to bottom corner of front cover. Excellent copy. More
![Invitation - Sylvie Guillem. [text in French, English and Japanese]. Gilles Tapie, Dominique Fretard](/pictures/thumb/20058120.jpg?v=1548962808)
London: Editions Cercle D'Art, Oberon Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 429, [1]. A large and extraordinary collection of exquisite photographs, in monochrome and colour, of 'perhaps the last great classical ballerina' and her context, grandly produced in small folio (39x29cms, 15x11ins) on heavy semi-matt art paper. Contents fresh and unmarked..... More
Suffolk: The Leiston Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. iv, 100, +[3] index: a lovingly produced book, full of magnificent colour photographs of the area, and with a number of the author's monochrome photographs of Britten and Pears from his period as the Aldeburgh Festival's photographer from its early days. Landscape..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Reprint. Hardcover. 432pp, plus many plates. Contents fresh and immaculate. Tiny brown smudge to closed fore-edge (see photo). In the original binding of navy cloth, spine titled in gilt: bright, corners sharp. In the protected pictorial dust jacket: fresh and bright, with two small snags to..... More
London: Virgin, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 282, plus 8 pages of photographs. Contents clean and unmarked, like new. In the original blue cloth-textured binding, spine titled in silver: bright, corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: bright and clean, front and spine very..... More
![The Time by the Sea. Aldeburgh 1955-58. [Inscribed copy]. Ronald Blythe](/pictures/thumb/20130060.jpg?v=1593301395)
London: Faber and Faber, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 256pp, illustrated with photographs. Title page inscribed 'Rosemary/ with kind wishes/ Ronald Blythe'. Published to coincide with the centenary of Britten's birth, charts Blythe's life in Aldeburgh in the 1950s. Very fresh, perhaps unread copy, in dust jacket. More
Aldeburgh Festival - Snape Maltings Foundation Ltd., 1977. First edition. Booklet. Stapled booklet. 10pp (including inner surface of covers). Includes a two-page site plan. 21x15cms, with thin green card cover illustrated with a drawing of the Maltings by John Piper. Extremely fresh copy: only sign of age is a little..... More
London: William Reeves, n.d. [1909]. First edition. Booklet. 24pp, with musical examples. 18x12cms, in green paper covers. Title page has two pale spots. Pencilled correction on p.9. Formerly stapled, as evinced by small rust marks in the gutter at some openings, but now very neatly stitched (presumably by the previous..... More
