Music & Drama

First edition, first impression; 8vo; wartime paper stock browning as all too often, title page substantially foxed from the tissue guard, Japanese bookshop 'chop' to front free endpaper, pages entirely uncut;publisher's blue cloth, device to upper board in black, titles to spine gilt, with the printed dust jacket; browning notwithstanding, a truly exceptional copy of a vulnerable book in the original printed dust jacket, with trivial loss at the spine and two corners and a couple of closed snags to the rear panel.

First edition; 4to; 20 chromolithographs by Juliet Wigan, including half-title, musical arrangements throughout, gift inscription to front free endpaper, light toning to leaves; publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, light spotting and wear to spine, boards slightly toned, corners and extremities a trifle ribbed, otherwise a very good copy.

25th printing; 8vo; presentation copy inscribed by the author; publisher's sage cloth, title to upper board and spine in red, dust-jacket, a little frayed and faded, price-clipped, otherwise very good.

Second edition; large 8vo (228 x 153 mm); half-title, black and white photographic frontispiece portrait, 66 further plates (many two to a page), 6 facsimile letters, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some foxing throughout; publisher's green cloth, spine and upper cover gilt lettered, gilt design to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, extremities slightly rubbed, otherwise very bright.

First edition in English, 12mo (18.5 x 13 cm);xi, 142pp., portrait in black and white of Stravinsky by Picasso, translated from the original French by Arthur Knodel and Ingolf Dahl; original black cloth, title in gilt to spine, without the dust jacket; a fine copy.

Long Playing vinyl record, with original 10pp booklet inserted. 1 of 99 numbered copies signed by Durrell. 12' black vinyl record, in original inner sleeve, outer sleeve blue laminated paper printed in black with a design by the author. Some foxing to the pamphlet as usual, trace of creasing to the sleeve but an exceptional example.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the photographic dust jacket. A superb copy in the little rubbed, internally repaired dust jacket missing small pieces at the corners and base of the spine panel.

First edition; folio, (40.4 x 26.7 cm); complete with engraved author portrait and architectural frontispiece and 60 further engraved plates, tissue repair to top of frontispiece, light tears on pp.2, 45, 283, missing corner on p.283, tape repair to plate xli; recent vellum binding; 340pp.

First edition, 4to (31 x 24 cm); presentation copy, inscribed by Dolin to Sir Basil Bartlett on the half title page 'Dear Basil | Friend of many memories love Pat'. Tipped in 4 autograph postcards signed to Sir Basil Bartlett (late 1970s to early 1980s) containing brief chat about foreign trips, and also 4 ALSs also to Bartlett, from Italy and Japan, on both work and holidays with John Gilpin (3 one page), the other 2 pages from Capri referring to the death of Noël Coward; one TLS on the headed notepaper of the Lindsay Kemp company (10 May 1977) about appearing in Salomé with Kemp at the Broadway Theatre in Maida Vale. Also tipped in 3 newspaper obituaries of Dolin and a flyer for the international gala at the Royal Opera House celebrating Dolin. Very good condition (repaired minor tears to dust jacket, corners and edges of binding/spine lightly bumped).

First edition; 8vo; presentation copy inscribed by Lifar on the half-title, 'a Eugene Mollo son ami Serge Lifar London 1938', frontispiece portrait, photographic reproductions throughout; publisher's printed wrappers, some wear and soiling, in a custom made clam shell box.