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Listed below are bargain second-hand books on all manner of subjects.  They are from my personal collection or have come into my possession as an aside.  I have priced them below what I believe is the current market value and there should be some real bargains.  (For books on my main specialist subjects of Scouting, Guiding and Baden-Powells go to Site Map)   

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I have several hundred books to list and I will place them in the catalogue as time permits.

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You can scroll down to see the entire catalogue of books or just click the section you want to go direct to in the Index below :-

TERMS & CONDITIONS
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
ART & ILLUSTRATION
CRAFTS & HANDICRAFTS
MUSIC (Classical)
MUSIC (Popular)
NAUTICAL/MARINE
PERFORMING ARTS (Film, Theatre, Dance, Etc.)
PHOTOGRAPHY
SCOUTING, GUIDING and BADEN-POWELL's  go to specialist  Site Map
SPORT
TOPOGRAPHY
TRANSPORT
GENERAL NON FICTION
FICTION

For Terms and Conditions and how to order from my catalogues go to FAQ

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Abbreviations used:-

bw black and white fr frontispiece pp printed pages
c circa/approximate date illus illustrated rep rear end paper
cl coloured nd no date sb soft back (linen etc.)
dec decorated pb paper back waf with all faults
dr drawing/s ph photograph/s    
dw dust wrapper/cover pic pictorial    
fep front end paper pl book plate/s    

Condition:-  The condition of most items is described by use of the following abbreviations with "+" or "-" suffix.      All major faults are fully described.      Minor inscriptions in books etc. are ignored.

Mint    -    As new with no faults.
VG.    -    Very good clean condition with no obvious faults and very little wear.
G.       -    Good condition in obvious second hand usage with minor wear faults.
P.       -    Poor condition with heavy wear but useful as a space-filler or reading copy if a book.

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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES (See top of page for abbreviations used)

0494  "Maling and other Tyneside Pottery"   by R.C. Bell. Shire Publications (170) 1986. 210x150mm. 32pp. bw/ph. dr. pic/pb. VG.  £1.50
0110 "Antique Blue and White Spode"   by Sydney B. Williams. Batsford. 1987. 255x194mm. 248pp. ph. Blue gilt covers. VG++ in Mint pic/dw. £15.90
0759  "Staffordshire Portrait Figures"  by John Hall. Charles Letts. 1972. 215x150mm. 80pp. cl/ph/fr. cl/ph. Black gilt buckram. VG in VG pic/dw. £8.00
0758  "The 1985 Price Guide to Crested China"  by Sandy Andrews & Nicholas Pine. Milestone Publications. 1984. 215x155mm. 288pp. dr. Blue gilt buckram. VG in VG pic/dw. £7.00
0757 "Pottery in England from 3500 BC - AD 1750"  by K.J. Barton. David & Charles. 1973. 220x145mm. 150pp. bw/ph/pl. dr. Black gilt buckram. VG in G+ pic/dw. 5.00
0362 "Old English Porcelain"  (A Handbook for Collectors) by W. B. Honey. Faber & Faber. 1979. 222x145mm. 440pp. cl/ph/pl. bw/ph. dr. Dark brown gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw. £12.00
0482 "English Pottery and Porcelain"  by W.B. Honey. A&C Black. 1962. 220x140mm. 285pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. dr. Plum gilt cloth. VG. £6.00
0597 "English Ceramics"  by Stanley Fisher. Ward Lock. 1968. 200x145mm. 256pp. cl/ph/fr. bw/ph. VG in VG pic/dw. £7.00
0351 "Interpreting Pottery"  by Anne Anderson. Batsford. 1984. 215x138mm. 210pp. bw/ph/pl. dr. pic/pb. VG. £4.50
0306 "Ceramics for the Collector"  (An Introduction to Pottery & Porcelain) by George Savage. Rockliff. 1949. 215x145mm. 224pp. cl/ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. dr. Green gilt binding. (Some spotting to cover) G. £6.50
0354 "Porcelain Through the Ages"  by George Savage. Pelican (A298) 1954. 180x112mm. 352pp. bw/ph/pl. dr. pb. VG. £4.00
0300 "The Collector's Encyclopaedia of English Ceramics"  by Bernard & Therle Hughes. Abbey Library. 1968. 245x170mm. 172pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. dr. Black gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw. £7.50
0528 "Italian Porcelain"  by Francesco Stazzi.  Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Pleasurea and Treasures) 1967. 215x205mm. 128pp. cl/bw/ph. pic/cover. VG. £4.50
0529 "Ivory"   by O.Beigbeder. Weidenfels &  Nicolson (Pleasures and Treasures) 1970. 215x205mm. 128pp. cl/bw/ph. pic/cover. VG. £4.50
0281 "Chinese and Japanese Works of Art"  Sotheby & Co. Catalogue 1961. 242x154mm. 65pp. bw/ph. pb. VG. £1.00
0344 "English Engraved Silver 1150-1900"  by Charles Oman. Faber & Faber. 1978. 252x190mm. 158pp. ph/fr. bw/ph. pic/eps. Blue gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw. £15.00
0404 "Silver"   by Richard Came. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. (Pleasures and Treasures) 1969. 215x205mm. 128pp. cl/bw/ph. pic/eps. pic/binding. VG. £4.50
0765 "Old French Plate - Its Makers and Marks"  by W.J. Cripps. John Murray. 1893. 225x150mm. dr. Brown buckram library binding. (Library marks on spine and prelims) o/w VG. £11.00
0414 "Glass"   by George Savage. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Pleasures and Treasures) 1969. 215x205mm. 128pp. cl/bw/ph. pic/covers. G+ £5.00
0348 "English Furniture at a Glance"  by Charles H. Hayward. The Architectural Press. 1924. 217x145mm. 73pp. dr. boards. VG. £4.00
0350 "English Furniture Styles from 1500 to 1830"  by Ralph Fastnedge. Pelican (A309) 1955. 180x110mm. 321+5pp. bw/ph/pl. dr. pic/pb. G+ £3.90
0413 "English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century"  by David Nickerson. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Pleasures and Treasures) 1969. 215x205mm. 128pp. cl/bw/ph. pic/cover. G+ £4.50
0486 "Old English Furniture"  by Hampden Gordon. John Murray. 1948. 205x135mm. 158pp. ph/fr. bw/ph. G++ in G pic/dw. £5.00
0489 "The National Trust Book of English Furniture"  by Geoffrey Beard. Viking. 1985. 218x155mm. 295pp. bw/ph. dr. VG in VG pic/dw. £9.00
0039 "A Short Dictionary of Furniture"   by John Gloag. Unwin. 1966. 178x118mm. 279pp. dr. pic/pb. VG. £4.50
0412 "Arms and Armour"  by Vesey Norman. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Pleasures and Treasures) 1969. 215x205mm. 128pp. cl/bw/ph. pic/cover. G+ £4.00
0527 "Fine Books"  by Alan G. Thomas. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Pleasures and Treasures) 1971. 215x205mm. 120pp. cl/bw/ph. dr. pic/cover. VG. £4.50
0734 "A Short-title Catalogue of Household and Cookery Books published in the English Tongue 1701-1800"  by Virginia Maclean. Prospect Books. 1981. 275x190mm. 197pp. Illus. Plumb gilt buckram. VG in VG dw. £15.00
0763 "British Topography - Local History"  (Catalogue 221) Deighton Bell. nd. c.1980's. 240x150mm. 195pp. pic/pb. VG. £1.00
0251 "Maps and Prints for pleasure and investment"  by D.C. Gohm.  John Gifford. 1971. 220x140mm. 197pp. cl/bw/pl. Brown silver gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw. £8.00
0238 "Victorian Maps of the British Isles"  by David Smith. Batsford. 1985. 305x215mm. 176pp. cl/bw/illus. Black gilt binding. Mint in Mint pic/binding. £15.00
0334 "Victorian Delights" (Printed Ephemera) by Robert Wood. Evans Brothers. 1967. 325x270mm. 160pp. cl/bw/ph. Yellow gilt binding. G. £10.00
0040 "Christmas Cards for the Collector"  by Arthur Blair. Batsford. 1986. 255x194mm. 126pp. cl/bw/illus. Plum gilt buckram. Mint in Mint pic/dw. £8.00
0134 "Matchbox Labels"  by Joan Rendell. David & Charles. 1968. 255x190mm. 112pp. cl/fr. cl/bw/ph. (Ex library) G in G+ protected pic/dw. £5.00
0705 "Light Sir?"   (A Catalogue of World Wide Matchbox Labels with the word "Light" in the title) by R.W. Norris. British Matchbox Society. 1983. 210x165mm. 220pp. Illustrated. pic/pb. VG. £4.00
0707 "World Matchbox Label Series - China"  by Winnie Loy. Vesta Publications. 1980. 215x165mm. 25pp. Illus. pic/pb. VG. £2.00
0706 "World Matchbox Label Series - Mauritius"  by J.H. Luker. Vesta Publications. 1984. 215x165mm. 16pp. Illus. pic/pb. VG. £1.50
0130 "Collecting Theatre Memorabilia"  by George Speaight. MPC. 1988. 253x195mm. 160pp. cl/bw/ph. dr. Red gilt buckram. VG in VG protected pic/dw. £11.00
0766 "Collecting British Stamps"  by Paul Drennan. British Post Office. nd. 1980's. 215x125mm. 88pp. cl/pl. bw/ph. dr. pic/pb. G++ £1.00
0324  "Antiques for Amateurs"  by C.G.L. Du Cann. Muller. 1962. 192x130mm. 176pp. bw/ph/pl. dr. Blue gilt binding. VG in G+ pic/dw. £2.50
0313 "On Collecting"   by Lord Eccles. Longmans. 1968. 220x145mm. 136pp. bw/ph/pl. Brown gilt binding. VG. £3.50
0150 "The Antique Collector's Handbook"  by George Savage. Spring Books. 1968. 222x145mm. 304pp. bw/ph/pl. dr. Maroon gilt covers. VG in G+ pic/dw. £3.50
0478 "The Connoisseur's Handbook of Antique Collecting" (A Dictionary of Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Glass, Fine Art, Etc.) Edited by H. Hayward. The Connoisseur. 1967. 320pp. dr. pic. VG in G+ pic/dw. £3.50
0345 "First Steps in Collecting"  by G.M. Vallois. T. Werner Laurie. 1953. 190x130mm. 324pp. cl/fr. bw/ph/pl. Blue gilt binding. G+ in G pic/dw. £5.50
0301 "Practical Collecting"  Hodder & Stoughton (The New Culture Library) nd. c.1930's. 195x130mm. 223pp. Red decorated binding. G+ £2.50
0062 "More Looking in Junk Shops"  by John Bedford. Max Parrish. 1965. 170x110mm. 252pp. dr. Blue gilt covers. (Rear cover stained) G. £2.00
0475 "The 1967-8 International Antiques Year Book"   Edited by P. Wilson. Studio Vista. 1168+112pp. cl/bw/ph. maps. (heavy) G+ £1.50
0233 "Christie's Collector's Diary 1986"  260x210mm. 160pp. cl/ph. pic/boards. Unused. VG. £3.50
0308 "The Lyle Official Antiques Review 1980"  220x145mm. 670pp. dr. Red gilt decorated binding. VG in VG dw. £5.00
0346 "Miller's Pocket Antiques Fact File" Mitchell Beazley. 1988. 195x95mm. 192pp. dr. Blue gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw. £3.50

ART & ILLUSTRATION (See top of page for abbreviations used)

0272 "The World of Michelangelo 1475-1564"  by Robert Coughlan. Time-Life. 1975. 310x230mm. 202pp. cl/bw/ph. dr. Black gilt/pic binding. VG. £5.50
0782 "Poussin Paintings - A Catalgue Raisonne"  by Christpher Wright. Jupiter Books. 1984. 290x245mm. 304pp. cl/bw illustrations. Navy gilt covers. (published price £40.00) VG in VG pic/dw.  £20.00
0767 "Masters of British Nineteenth-Century Art"  (Landseer to Whistler) by Ida Procter. Dennis Dobson. 1961. 205x135mm. 192pp. bw/ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. Blue gilt buckram. VG in G+ pic/dw.  £4.00
0462 "Giles Cartoons - Twenty-fifth Series"   Express Newspapers. c.1971. 104x252mm. 128p. dr. pic/pb. G+  £3.50
0781 "Lithography - 200 Years of Art, History & Technique"  Domenico Porzio, General Editor. Bracken Books. 1983. 320x250mm. 280pp. cl/bw illustrations. Brown gilt cloth. (weighs 2.1Kg) VG in VG pic/dw. (published price was £50.00)   £25.00
0239 "Chiaroscuro"   (The Clair-Obscur Woodcuts by the German and Netherlandish Masters of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries) A complete catalogue with commentary by Walter L. Strauss. Thames & Hudson. 1973. 285x225mm. 393pp. fr. Illus. Brown gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw.  £15.00
0785 "Prints" (History of an Art) by Michel Melot, Antony Griffiths, Richard S. Field, Andre Beguin. Skira. 1988. 340x250mm. 279pp. cl/bw illustrations. (published price £50.00) VG in VG pic/dw.  £29.50
0223 "Collecting Original Prints"  by Rosemary Simmons. Quiller Press. 1983. 250x205mm. 128pp. cl/fr. cl/bw/ph. Off-white binding. VG in VG pic/dw.  £8.00
0784 "World Art Treasures"  General Editor - Geoffrey Hindley. Octopus. 1979. 330x240mm. 320pp. cl/bw/ph. Green covers. G+  £7.50

PERFORMING ARTS (Film, Theatre, Etc.)(See top of page for abbreviations used)

0716     "Stories of the Ballets"  by Gladys Davidson. Werner Laurie. 1955. 190x130mm. 486pp. cl/fr. bw/ph/pl. Light blue buckram. VG in G+ pic/dw.  £4.50
0232      "Roy Castle - Now and Then"   (An Autobiography) Robson Books. 1994. 240x160mm. 279pp. bw/ph/pl. Blue gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw.  £6.00
0721     "Anna Neagle Says "There's Always Tomorrow""  (Autobiography) W.H. Allen. 1974. 225x140mm. 236pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. Gil covers. VG in G pic/dw.  £5.90
0725     "Ivor - The Story of Achievement"  (A Biography of Ivor Novello) by W. Macqeen-Pope. Hutchinson. 1954. 220x145mm. 317pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. Maroon gilt buckram. VG in G pic/dw.  £4.50

CRAFTS & HANDICRAFTS (See top of page for abbreviations used)

0764 "Picture Framing"  (Modern methods of making and finishing picture frames) by Edward Landon. Tudor Publishing Co. New York. 1962. 240x160mm. 154pp. bw/ph/pl. dr. Beige buckram. VG in G+ pic/dw. £5.00

MUSIC (Classical) (See top of page for abbreviations used)
 For bargain second hand Classical Compact Discs go to the CD Catalogue

0533 "Bach"   by Eva Mary & Sydney Grew, Dent (Master Musicians) 1949. 180x125mm. 239pp. bw/fr. bw/pl. VG in G+ pic/dw.  £3.50
0137 "Bach"   by Eva Mary & Sydney Grew. Dent (Master Musicians) 1949. 180x125mm. 239pp. bw/fr. bw/pl. dr. Cream buckram. G+  £3.00
0523 "Johann Sebastian Bach"  by C. Hubert H. Parry. Putnams. 1910. 200x140mm. 584+2pp. fr. bw/pl. G+ £6.00
0191 "The Music of Béla Bartók"  by Paul Wilson. Yale University Press. 1992. 240x160mm. 222pp. music. Green gilt buckram. Mint in Mint pic/dw.  £10.00
0534 "Beethoven"   by A.E.F. Dickinson. Nelson. (Discussion Books No.70) 1941. 185x125mm. 256pp. music. VG in G pic/dw.  £2.00
0538 "Beethoven"   by Marion M. Scott. Dent (The Master Musicians) 1943. 182x125mm. 343pp. bw/pl. G++  £2.20
0535 "The Joy of Music"  by Leonard Bernstein. White Lion Publishers. 1974. 220x140mm. 303pp. music. G+ £4.00
0539 "Brahms"   by J. Lawrence Erb.  Dent (The Master Musicians) 1934. 182x125mm. 188pp. bw/ph. bw/pl. VG.  £3.00
0074 "Johannes Brahms"  by Ivor Keyes. Christopher Helm. 1989. 240x160mm. 310mm. bw/ph/pl. music. Brown gilt buckram. Mint in Mint pic/dw.  £14.50
0552 "William Byrd"   (A Short Account of his Life and Work) Clarenden Press. 1923. 198x134mm. 123pp. Gilt buckram. VG.  £6.00
0044 "The Nightingale" (A Life of Chopin) by Marjorie Strachey. Longmans, Green & Co. (The Swan Library No.8) 1932. 178x120mm. 305pp. Black gilt buckram. VG.  £3.50
0001 "Dvorák"  by Neil Butterworth. Omnibus Press (The Illustrated Lives of Great Composers) 1980. 135pp. bw/ph. pb. Mint. £3.90
0550 "Introduction to the Music of Elgar"  by W.R. Anderson. Dennis Dobson. 1949. 158x110mm. 70pp. VG in G dw.  £2.00
0558 "Portrait of Elgar"  by Michael Kennedy. Oxford University Press. 1987. 215x138mm. 393pp. bw/ph/pl. pic/pb. G+  £5.50
0561 "Gilbert and Sullivan" (biography) by Hesketh Pearson. The Right Book Club. nd. c.1950's. 190x130mm. 319pp. VG in G- pic/dw.  £3.90
0566 "Handel"   by C.F. Abdy Williams. Dent (Master Musicians) 1944. 182x125mm. 276pp. bw/ph/pl. VG in G- pic/dw.  £3.00
0186 "Charles Ives 'My Father's Song'" (A Psychoanalytic Biography) by Stuart Feder. Yale University Press. 1992. 240x160mm. 396pp. bw/ph. Greu buckram. Mint in Mint pic/dw.  £10.00
0183 "Mahler"   by Edward Seckerson. Omnibus Press (The Illustrated Lives of Great Composers series) 1984. 248x180mm. 150pp. bw/ph. pic/pb. VG.  £3.90
0086 "Mazeppa" (The lives, Loves and Legends of Adah Isaacs Menken) by Wolf Mankowitz. Blond & Briggs. 1982. 240x192mm. 270pp. bw/ph. dr. VG in G++ pic/dw.  £5.90
0138 "Mozart"   by Wolfgang Hildesheimer. Dent. 1991. 197x129mm. 408pp. pic/pb. VG+  £4.90
0697 "Letters of Giacomo Puccini"  Edited by Giuseppi Adami. Translated by Ena Makin. New edition revised and introduced by Mosco Carner. Harrap. 1974. 220x140mm. 341pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. Brown gilt buckram. VG in VG pic/dw.  £7.50
0569 "Rimsky-Korsakov"   (A Short Biography) by Gerald Abraham. Duckworth. 1945. 190x128mm. 142pp. VG.  £3.00
0572 "Schubert"   by Arthur Hutchings. Dent (Master Musicians) 1945. 182x125mm. 233pp. bw/ph/pl. music. VG.  £3.00
0571 "Stockhausen - Life and Work"  by Karl H. Wörner. University of California Press. 1976. 214x134mm. 270pp. bw/ph. pic/pb. VG.  £4.50
0570 "Conversations with Stockhausen"  by Mya Tannenbaum. Clarenden Press. 1987. 222x140mm. 102pp. VG in VG pic/dw.  £5.50
0578 "Johann Strauss"  (Father and Son and Their Era) by Hans Fantel. David & Charles. 1971. 225x142mm. 246pp. bw/pl. VG in VG pic/dw.  £6.50
0082 "The Music of Stravinsky"  by Stephen Walsh. Routledge. 1988. 240x160mm. 317pp. music. Black gilt buckram. Mint in Mint pic/dw.  £13.90
0576 "A Day with Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky"  by May Byron. Hodder & Stoughton (Days with the Great Composers) nd. (Inscription 1912) 208x150mm. 54pp. cl/fr. 4x cl/pl. pic/cover. G+  £4.50
0083 "Stanford  The Cambridge Jubilee and Tchaikovsky"  by Gerald Norris. David & Charles. 1980. 242x165mm. 584pp. bw/ph/pl. Maroon gilt buckram. VG in VG protected dec/dw.  £10.50
0002 "Giuseppe Verdi"  (His Life and Works) by Francis Toye. Heinemann. 1931. 240x160mm. 495pp. ph/fr. bw/pl. music. Black gilt buckram. VG.  £8.50
0309 "Wagner"   by W.J. Turner. Duckworth (Great Lives series) 1933. 190x120mm. 143pp. Red gilt binding. G+  £2.50
0231 "The Complete Operas of Richard Wagner"  by Charles Osborne. Michael O'Mara Books. 1990. 230x155mm. 289pp. bw/ph/pl. music. Black gilt binding. Mint in Mint pic/dw.  £8.50
0190 "Wagner in Performance"  Edited by Barry Millington & Stewart Spencer. Yalw University Press. 1992. 240x160mm. 214pp. bw/ph. Black silver gilt buckram. Mint in Mint pic/dw.  £9.50
0299 "Fact and Fiction about Wagner"  by Ernest Newman. Cassell. 1931. 222x145mm. 318pp. ph/fr. Maroon gilt binding. G+  £5.50
0320 "Walford Davies"  (a biography) by H.C. Colles. Oxford University Press. 1942. 204x135mm. 203pp. bw/ph/pl. Blue gilt binding. VG.  £3.80
0506 "Lives of the Great Composers - Volume 1"  Edited by A.L. Bacharach. Pelican (No.A90) 1947. 178x110mm. 190+2pp. pb. G.  £1.90
0511 "Lives of the Great Composers - Volume 2"  Edited by A.L. Bacharach.   Pelican (No.A91) 1947. 178x110mm. 220+4pp. pb. G.  £1.90
0512 "Lives of the Great Composers - Volume 3"  Edited by A.L. Bacharach.   Pelican (No.A92) 1943. 178x110mm. 186+6pp. pb. G.  £1.20
0712 "Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music Volume 1 & Volume 2"   by Milton Cross & David Ewen. Doubleday & Co., New York. 1962. 220x145mm. 990pp in 2 volumes. Cream & plumb buckram with gilt titles on spine. Boxed set x2. VG in G dw.   £8.00
0045 "Some Great Composers"  by Eric Blom. Geoffrey Cumberlege, O.U.P. 1949. 190x125mm. 120pp. Green buckram. VG.  £1.50
0355 "John Barbirolli"  (A Biographical Sketch) by Charles Rigby.  John Sherratt. 1948. 220x145mm. 191pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. Grey gilt binding. (fep missing) G+ in torn pic/dw.  £3.50
0579 "Previn"   by Helen Ruttencutter. Michael Joseph. 1985. 220x140mm. 231pp. bw/ph/pl. VG in VG pic/dw.  £5.00
0593 "Malcolm Sargent"  (A Biography) by Charles Reid. Hamish Hamilton. 1968. 215x145mm. 491pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. VG in G+ pic/dw.  £5.50
0174 "Conductors in Conversation"  (Abbado, Giulini, von Karajan, Levine, Muti, Ormandy, Solti) Edited by Robert Chesterman. Robson Books. 1990. 240x160mm. 170pp. bw/ph/pl. Black gilt buckram. VG in VG pic/dw.  £12.50
0598 "Conductors' Gallery"  by Donald Brook. Rockliff. 1947. 220x145mm. 188pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. G in chipped pic/dw.  £3.50
0066 "The Orchestra Speaks"  (Conductors) by Bernard Shore. Longmans, Green & Co. 1938. 202x135mm. 218pp. ph/fr. Green gilt buckram. G.  £2.80
0658 "The Orchestra Speaks"  (Conductors) by Bernard Shore. Longmans, Green & Co. 1948. 202x135mm. 218pp. ph/fr. Blue gilt buckram. VG in chipped pic/dw.  £3.00
0592 "About Conducting"  by Sir Henry Wood. Sylvan Press. 1945. 190x130mm. 124pp. ph/fr. Blue gilt buckram. G+  £2.00
0598 "Talking of Music"  by Nevelle Cardus. Collins. 1957. 215x145mm. 320pp. VG in G+ pic/dw.  £4.50
0599 "My Life of Music"  by Henry J. Wood. Victor Gollancz. 1946. 190x130m. 384pp. ph/fr. G+  £3.50
0264 "Music - A Joy for Life"  by Edward Heath. Sidgwick & Jackson. 1976. 250x190mm. 208pp. cl/pl. bw/ph. Maroon gilt binding. VG in G pic/dw.  £4.00
0575 "My First Hundred Years"  by Sir Robert Mayer. Van Duren. 1979.  220x140mm. 104pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. dr. VG in VG pic/dw.  £3.50
0667 "Philharmonic Decade"  (London Philharmonic Orchestra) by Thomas Russell. Hutchinson. 1940's. 216x145mm. 171pp. G+ in G dw.  £2.50
0549 "Peter Grimes"   by Benjamin Britten. John Lane The Bodley Head. (Sadlers Wells Opera Books No.3) 1945. 183x124mm. 55pp. ph/fr. bw/pl. music. dec/pb. VG.  £2.00
0557 "Selected Operas - First Series"  by Sir W.S. Gilbert. Macmillan. (Pocket Library) 1951. 178x115mm. 200pp. VG in VG dw.  £2.50
0556 "Selected Operas - Second Series"  by Sir W.S. Gilbert. Macmillan. (Pocket Library) 1951. 178x115mm. 200pp. VG in VG dw.  £2.50
0194 "The Opera Guide"  by F.M. Stockdale & M.R. Dreyer. Collins & Brown. 1990. 216x155mm. 342pp. dr. Dark blue gilt covers. VG+ in VG dw.  £10.90
0246 "Italian Opera"  by David Kimbell. Cambridge University Press. 1991. 235x155mm. 684pp. music. Black gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw.  £33.90
0280 "The Critic at the Opera"  by Dennis Arundell. Ernest Benn. 1957. 222140mm. 424pp. Light blue binding. VG.  £3.90
0692 "In Defence of Opera"  by Hamish F.G. Swanston. Penguin.1978. 180x110mm. 314+5pp. pic/pb. VG.  £3.00
0694 "The Secrets of a Savoyard"  by Henry A. Lytton. Jarrolds. nd. (c.1910) 190x125mm. 191pp. cl/fr. bw/ph/pl. Red gilt buckram (fep missing) G+  £4.00
0720 "English Hymns and Hymn Writers"  by Adam Fox. Collins (Britain in Pictures Series) 1947. 225x165mm. 48pp. Colour/bw illus. VG in G dec/dw.  £4.00
0261 "James Galway - An Autobiography"  Chappell & Co/Elm Tree Books. 1978. 230x145mm. 181pp. bw/ph/pl. Red gilt binding. VG in VG pic/dw.  £8.00
0596 "Chords and Discords"  (The Life of an Orchestral Musician) by Malcolm Tillis. Phoenix House. 1960. 210x130mm. 212pp. ph/fr. bw/ph/pl. VG in VG pic/dw.  £3.50
0353 "A Voice, A Life"  Autobiography by Joan Hammond. Gollancz. 1970. 220x145mm. 264pp. bw/ph/pl. Maroon gilt binding. VG in G+ pic/dw.  £5.50
0364 "Solo Recital - The Reminiscences of Michael Kelly" Edited with a biographical index by Herbert Van Thal. The Folio Society. 1972. 228x150mm. 372pp. fr. bw/pl. Plumb gilt with marbled boards. G++  £10.00
0577 "Joan Sutherland"  by Russell Braddon. Collins. 1962. 215x145mm. 256pp. bw/ph/pl. VG in torn pic/dw.  £4.90
0516 "Handbook of Soviet Musicians"  by Egor Boelza. Pilot Press.1943. 190x125mm. 101pp. bw/ph/pl. pb. G.  £1.20
0637 "A439 - being the Autobiography of a Piano"  by twenty-five musical scribes. Sands & Co.  1900. 194x130mm. 256pp. Dark green gilt buckram. G++  £5.00
0675 "The Orchestra - Volume 1 - Technique of the Instruments"  by Ebenezer Prout. Augener. nd. (Inscription 1898) 218x145mm. 287+3pp. dr. music. Plumb gilt buckram. G+  £6.50
0037 "The Proms"  by Thomas Russell. Max Parrish (The World of Music). 1949. 225x163mm. 72pp. cl/fr. Beautiful cl/bw/illustrations. Red dec/buckram. G+  £3.90
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