Opera

Sydney. Newnes Books. 1968.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Large 8vo. xvii/ 309 pages. Black and white photographs throughout. Colour plate of Dame Nellie Melba on frontis.

Fine / Fine condition

London. F V White & Co. 1922.

Blue cloth with black and gilt decoration. Hardcover. No dust jacket. 12mo. 155 pages + 3 pages of adverts. Illustrated throughout by H. M. Bateman and W. H. Holloway with a foreword by Sir Henry Wood. Decorated end pages. A few small spots of foxing to first few pages and page edges. Soiling to spine. Slight corner and edge wear.

Very Good condition

London. T C and E C Jack. 1910.

Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 15.5cm x 20.8cm. viii/ 246 pages. Twenty four plates in colour from drawings by Byam Shaw. Gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine. Two owners names to front end page dated 1913 & 1933. Slight foxing throughout. Some darkening to spine. head and foot of spine bumped.

Very Good condition

London. Chapman and Hall. Ltd. 1923.

Hardcover. No dust jacket. 12mo. 64 pages. This being the Sequel to The Beggars Opera now Freely Adapted by Clifford Bax. Owners name and date. March 2nd 1923 inscribed on front end page. Some soiling to covers and spine. Page 64 inscribed in ink London 14 March 1923. A few odd spots of foxing to page edges but pages internally are clean. Top and bottom edge of front cover is sunned.

Good + condition

London. Hamish Hamilton. 1954.

First edition, 4th impression. Hardback. Dust jacket. 125 pages. 8vo. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Photographs. Tear to corner of dust jacket and slight wear on bottom edge. rubbing to back.

Very Good + / Good + condition

London. Sidgwick and Jackson. 1988.

First UK edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Tall 8vo. 264 pages. Some black and white illustrations. Pictorial dustwrapper unclipped, slightly creased at edges with minor water mark at corner. Two tiny holes at front. Black cloth covers a little rubbed. Page edges grubby. Paper yellowing.

Very Good / Very Good condition

London. Macdonald & Janes. 1978.

Hardback. Dust jacket. 4vo. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. 192 pages. Dust jacket rubbed with gilding on cover and spine worn away. Owners name on front end page. Tears to the title page of chapter one. Owners name on blank front end page. Prelim page cut with 45% loss.

Good + / Good + condition

London. Ernest Benn Ltd. 1948.

Second edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Large 16mo. 132 pages. Dark green cloth covers. title details gilt on spine. Pictorial light coloured dustwrapper soiled, rubbed and nicked with small tears. Contents clean with faded endpapers.

Good + / Good + condition

London. Collins. 1962.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. 256 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Very slight foxing to prelims. Very slight bumping to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket spine faded, wear to top and bottom edges with several small chips, edges rubbed.

Very Good / Good + condition

Firenze. Presso Gaetano Ducci. 1833.

Quarta edizione. Quarter dark green leather bindings. Hardbacks. No dust jackets. 32mo. 271 pages, 78 pages, 132 pages. Illustrated with engraved frontis piece of Silvio Pellico and 3 full page engraved plates. Owners inscriptions. Some foxing and water mark to edges of the last 50 pages of volume two. Edges rubbed and worn with very slight loss. Scarce

Good + condition