Composers' Gallery: Biographical Sketches of Contemporary Composers
by Brook, Donald
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/near Very Good
- Seller
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Montmorillon, France
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About This Item
London: Rockliff, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/near Very Good. 8vo. Pp 218 + frontis & 39pp b&w photographs. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Brief biographies of 40 modern composers. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust-jacket a little rubbed at the edges.
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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86275
- Title
- Composers' Gallery: Biographical Sketches of Contemporary Composers
- Author
- Brook, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Rockliff
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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