Reminiscences. Edited with an introduction by Roger Fiske
London, Oxford University Press, 1975 [first thus]. One of the Oxford English Memoirs and Travels series. More
London, Oxford University Press, 1975 [first thus]. One of the Oxford English Memoirs and Travels series. More
New York, W.W. Norton, 1969. Inscribed and signed by the editor. 'Includes complete study-size orchestral scores of eight major nineteenth-century symphonies'. More
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, July 1974 (second edition) / May 1974. A biography of this South Australian folk singer, written by her mother. More
New York, Jonathan Leavitt, 1831 [first edition]. Reverend Joshua Leavitt (1794-1873) was an American Congregationalist minister and former lawyer who embarked on a lengthy 'career as social reformer, temperance spokesman, editor, abolitionist and religious proselytizer.... Leavitt published "The Christian Lyre" in 1830, the "first American tunebook to take the form..... More
New York, Atlantic Recording Corporation, 1969. The American pressing of their significant first LP, signed by Robert Plant in blue ink on the rear cover above his portrait ('Robert Plant | Lead Vocal, Harmonica'). Reference numbers are SD-19126, ST-A-681461-MO, and ST-A-681462-MO. Provenance: the personal collection of David Lovatt, proprietor of..... More
There is also a short (five-word) note in pencil in the bottom left-hand portion of the page, written and initialled by Lehar. Oswald Kabasta (1896-1946), an Austrian conductor, is not without interest. 'In 1931 he became head of conducting at the Vienna Academy. He also served as musical director of..... More
London, Calder and Boyars, 1966. More
Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1976. More
The photograph is accompanied by a typed letter signed by Peter Dennison, Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, to the Hon. Barry Jones, Parliament House, Canberra (at that time the Minister for Science). The letter, dated 24 August 1987, goes into some detail about the circumstances surrounding the..... More
London, Robson Books, 2006. More
One of the curiosities of Massenet is that he habitually signed with M., rather than his given name or initial. Massenet has come back into fashion and is more performed now than in the late twentieth century. Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. More
Provenance: the personal collection of David Lovatt, proprietor of Bank Street Records, Adelaide (1985-1994). He purchased the autograph from the manager of the Royal Coach Motor Inn, Adelaide, where Paul McCartney and the band stayed in Adelaide in 1975. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia in association with the University of Adelaide, 1966. Together with an offprint of one of the contributions, 'Puritan Attitudes to Music. A Study in History and Ideas' by Professor Heinz Kent. More
[Melbourne, Dark & Tinsdale's American Biograph & Novelty Co., 1910]. A handbill for a programme of popular entertainments, including motion pictures and music. The inner pages reprint press notices for 'Little Sylvia', and the last page is a 'Mammoth Programme' including the King's Funeral (Edward VII had died on 6..... More
London, Rockliff Publishing, 1957. Presentation copy inscribed, dated (1957) and signed by the author to Paula and Richard Samek. The frontispiece portrait of the author is also inscribed and signed by the author (using a different pen). More
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1925 (first edition). The title song first appeared as a poem in 'When We Were Very Young' (1924). 'For this separate publication Mr. A.A. Milne has written a special and very amusing [four-page] Introduction. The work also contains a new song "Feed-my-Cow," for which Mr..... More
Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1937 (first thus)/ [1634]. Number 256 of 950 copies on Pannekoek mould-made paper. This edition contains Milton's text and the music composed by Lawes for the original performance of the masque in 1634. More
London, Augener, 1911 [first edition]. With the presentation inscription (dated Christmas 1911) to Kendal, Archer and Dorothea [Kyffin Thomas] from 'Auntie Charles'. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1964. Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. More
Auckland, Auckland Institute and Museum, 1989. An illustrated catalogue of the sound-producing instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute Museum. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986. AIAS New Series Number 48. 'With the help of Slippery Morton, Alyawarra interpreter'. More
Budapest, Konemann Music, 1995 (first thus). The orchestral score for Mozart's 'Abduction from the Seraglio'. More
London, The Folio Society, 1997 (fourth impression)/ 1991 (first thus). Edited, with an introduction and additional notes, by Christopher Hogwood. More
The subjects are German pianist Wilhelm Backhaus; Serbian violinist Milan-Yovanovitch Bratza; Russian-born American pianist Shura Cherkassky; Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson (two photographs, with Clarence Mates in one of them); Polish pianist and composer Ignaz Friedman; Italian soprano Amelita Galli-Curci; Italian-American soprano Dusolina Giannini; Russian-British pianist Mark Hambourg; Hungarian violinist Joseph..... More
This is a photograph of a calligraphic testimonial that contained 31 portrait photographs (30 uniform-sized ones of members of the band, and a larger one of the recipient of the testimonial). It was presented to George Christian Clauscen 'as a mark of esteem'. Apparently he was 'mayor of Fitzroy 1886-87..... More