Melbourne, R. Bell, Steam Printer, [circa 1870s]. Bound in contemporary watered cloth with 20 similar opera libretti with colonial imprints: twelve from Melbourne (three are dated 1860, 1873 and 1882); four from Sydney (two are dated 1866 and 1870); two from Adelaide (1871 and 1884) and one each from Auckland..... More
Adelaide, 'Fray, Music Seller and Publisher, 154 Rundle St', [1880s], 'New and Revised Edition'. 'Dedicated by express permission to The Hon. Chief Justice Way, Most Worshipful Grand Master of South Australia'. More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham [Printers, for the Author], 1901. More
![Some Childrens' [sic] Songs by Marion Alsop & Dorothy McCrae. Designed by Edith Alsop. Marion...](/pictures/thumb/110163_01.jpg?v=1550894455)
Melbourne, George Robertson and Company (Printed in Scotland), [1910]. The cover title is 'Some Childrens' [sic] Songs by Marion Alsop. Words by Dorothy McCrae. Designed by Edith Alsop'. Dorothy Frances McCrae (1879-1937) was a daughter of George Gordon McCrae, 'poet and man of letters', and sister of the poet Hugh..... More
![Unley Competitions, 1911 [cover title]. Southern Literary and Musical Union of SA, and the Band...](/pictures/thumb/102651_00.jpg?v=1550894052)
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, General Printers, [1911]. More
London, Augener, 1911 [first edition]. With the presentation inscription (dated Christmas 1911) to Kendal, Archer and Dorothea [Kyffin Thomas] from 'Auntie Charles'. More
Adelaide, printed by The Howard Correspondence College Limited Printing Works, 1914. All those involved generously gave their services: 'Madame Melba, Miss Doris Madden, Mr John Lemmone, Mr Fred C. Collier, Mr W. Burrell and the Adelaide Choral Society' (and presumably the The Howard Correspondence College Limited Printing Works). Offered together..... More
Paris, Librairie Fischbacher, 1920. French text. More
London, Constable, 1925. Eight tipped-in colour plates. Loosely inserted is a publisher's postcard (to subscribe to their monthly list). More
New York, G. Schirmer, 1925/ 1897. Vocal score. Text in English and German. English version by Rev. J. Troutbeck, DD, and Dr Theo. Baker. With the contemporary bookseller stamp of Allan's, 278 Collins Street, Melbourne. More
New York, G. Schirmer, 1932/ 1903. Vocal score. Text in English and German. English translation by Frederick Jameson. With the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow, and inscribed 'University of Adelaide, 28 February 1970 (bought in Melbourne). More
Nashdom Abbey, Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, 1934 (first edition). More
[Melbourne, The Author, 1935]. Tasmanian composer. This copy bears a family ownership stamp. More
London, Collins, 1937 [first edition]. The author 'went to the Balkans primarily to study the music and dancing of the people ... in that most troubled spot on the map of Europe'. Contemporary gift inscription on a small card mounted on the front flyleaf 'from the staff and Sisters of..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1939. With the ownership signature (dated 1948) of Professor David Galliver, Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, 1964-82. More
New York, C. F. Peters, [1940s facsimile]/ 1844. Orgelwerke (Organ Works) Volumes 1 - 9. Text in German. More
New York, G. Schirmer, Inc., 1944. The front cover of each volume is signed and dated (October 1944) by Percy Grainger, with a warm personal inscription in each case, respectively 'To dear Harry, with love from his friend Percy'; 'To dear Harry, in boundless admiration from Percy'; and 'To Harry..... More
London, Novello and Oxford University Press, 1947. More
Stuttgart, Louis Renner, [1952]. With the ownership signature of Lucien Parent. Numerous plates, including two colour folding diagrams. Loosely inserted is a slightly creased Renner business card. More
Rivera, N.E. Michel, 1954. With the ownership signature of Lucien Parent. Michel is also the publisher of Michel's Piano Atlas. More
London, Neville Spearman, 1957. 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
Middleburg, Middleburg Press, 1961. Warmly inscribed, dated (10 June 1968) and signed by the author to Lucien Parent. More
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. More
London, Macmillan, 1965. More
New Brunswick, Rutgers, 1966. More
London, Dent, (1966). With the ownership signature of Professor David Galliver, Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, 1964-82. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia/ University of Adelaide, 1966 and 1966. More
New York, Studio/ Viking Press, 1966. With the ownership signature of Lucien Parent. More
London, Calder and Boyars, 1966. 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
London, Oxford University Press, 1967 (sixteenth impression)/ 1933 (revised)/ 1906. More
London, Andre Deutsch, 1968. More
New York, Dover, 1968 [facsimile edition]/ 1897. More
London, Oxford University Press, 1968/ 1968. The New Oxford History of Music, Volume 4. More
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1968. Loosely inserted is an original gelatin silver portrait photograph of Sargent (140 x 90 mm), signed in ink along the wide bottom margin. The signature of the photographer, Fred Siegfried Schiffer (1917-1999), is in the bottom right-hand corner of the negative (as 'Schiffer'). Vienna-born Schiffer emigrated..... 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
London, Oxford University Press, 1969/ 1960. The New Oxford History of Music, Volume 3. More
New York, Da Capo Press, 1969/ 1890. With the ownership signature of Lucien Parent. The 9 page introduction by Rita Benton is new to this edition. More
Broadway, Music Now, 1969. This is one of the 100 copies 'personally autographed by Australian composers, Richard Meale, Peter Sculthorpe, Nigel Butterley and George Dreyfus', as advertised for sale on the title page of this first issue. The signatures are in ink on or near the respective portraits. The Quarterly..... More
New York, Knopf, 1970. With the ownership signature of Professor David Galliver, Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, 1964-82. More
New York, Bonanza Books, [circa 1970s]. One of the Miniature Score Series. More
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. With the ownership signature of Professor David Galliver, Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, 1964-82. More
London, Macdonald, 1972. Not least, Electronic Music and the Avant-Garde. More
Melville, Belwin-Mills, 1973. One of the Miniature Score Series. More
