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A new look at Movement - a dancer's view

Price:  £6.00

Gates, Alice A
Second printing. Covers a little worn, name to ffep, good. p187
Burgess Publishing Co

Belshazzar's Feast - vocal score

Price:  £8.00

Walton, William
Revised edition. VG p120
OUP

Birth of a Ballet

Price:  £5.00

Austin, Richard
Following a Ballet Rambert production (Black Angels) from conception to opening night. VG in VG DJ, slightly edge-worn. p151
Vision

Braunsweg's Ballet Scandals

Price:  £5.00

Braunsweg, Julian
The life of an impresario and the story of Festival Ballet. An errata slip is loosely laid in. VG in lightly worn but generally VG DJ, not price-clipped. p295
reader's union

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1963

Price:  £5.00

programme
Cover design by Dennis Lennon. Cover good only, with a tear and edges rather rubbed, internally good. p
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1965

Price:  £5.00

programme
Cover by Lorenzo Ghiglia. Cover slightly worn round the edges, internally VG. p93
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1968

Price:  £5.00

programme
Cover by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Very slight stain to cover, slight edge-wear, generally VG p96
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1969

Price:  £5.00

programme
Cover by Osbert Lancaster. VG, cover protected by cellophane, internally VG. p84
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1970

Price:  £5.00

programme
Cover by Charles Bravery. Cover edges slightly worn, internally VG, name on title page p92
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Impresario

Price:  £5.00

Hurok, S and Goode, Ruth
VG in price-clipped, marked, slightly edge-worn and torn, but generally good DJ p272
MacDonald

More Stories of Famous Operas

Price:  £10.00

Wrench, Mrs Stanley
Contains: Tannhauser, The Mastersingers, The Barber of Seville, William Tell, The Daughter of the Regiment, Aida, Othello, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, La Sonnambula, Samson and Delilah, Manon Lescaut, La Tosca, Hansel and Gretel, Der Rosenkavalier, Mignon, Iris, The Boatswain's Mate, and The Perfect Fool. Gold lettering, illustrative cloth, good (faded at spine, corners bumped, wear on back, prize plate on FFEP, some yellowing internally) in good DJ (chipped, torn and worn). p192
C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd

Performer and Audience - a psychological study of nervousness and stage fright

Price:  £5.00

Ching, James
A Freudian study, especially for pianists Illustrative cover worn and sunned, internally good p96
Keith Prowse

Producing The Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian

Price:  £12.00

Muller-van Santen, Julia J G
A dissertation on the play The Prophetess by Fletcher and Massinger that became the 'semi-opera' Dioclesian with music by Purcell. Contains the full libretto with variant texts. VG p509
Universiteit Te Amsterdam

Shadowplay, the Life of Antony Tudor

Price:  £5.00

Perlmutter, Donna
Biography of the leading choreographer and dancer with Ballet Rambert and the American Ballet Theatre. Illus. Top edge of page block marked, o/w VG in VG DJ. p419
Viking Penguin

Tantivy Towers

Price:  £5.00

Herbert, A P
Fourth edition. The words of a light opera. Good, no inscriptions, pages a little yellowed, in good, lightly marked and worn DJ. p78
Methuen

The Ballet Designs of Leslie Hurry

Price:  £8.00

Beaumont, Cyril W
Spine worn to top, boards a little warped, very slight foosty smell, generally VG p72
Ariel/Faber and Faber

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote)

Price:  £7.00

Mozart, Giesecke, Carl Ludwig and Schikaneder, Emanuel; Edward J Dent trans.
Fourth impression. An English translation of the libretto of Mozart's opera, with a brief biography and an outline of the story. Covers worn and marked, no inscriptions, some age-mottling, good. p49
OUP

The Nature of Ballet - a critic's reflections

Price:  £5.00

Monahan, James
Music, choreography, dancing and décor - all the elements of ballet. VG in VG DJ. p122
Pitman

The Sadler's Wells Opera, A Pictorial Record

Price:  £7.00

Stapleton, Michael
95 b & w production photos from opera staged by Sadler's Wells between 1931 and 1946, with production list for the period and notes on some of the operas. Good (inscribed by prev. owner, sunned to base of spine) in Poor DJ (chipped, worn, torn). p66
A and C Black

Worzel Gummidge - a musical

Price:  £8.00

Waterhouse, Keith, and Hall, Willis; Music by Denis King
Based on characters created by Barbara Euphan Todd VG p77
Samuel French
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