Stepchildren of Music by BLOM Eric:

New York: Lincoln Macveagh / The Dial Press, 1926. Octavo. Full mid-blue cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 299 pp. Slightly worn and browned; very occasional foxing; former owner's name to front free endpaper.

[London]: G.T. Foulis & Company Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Ivory cloth-back dark red boards with titling gilt to upper and spine. 301 pp. + 2ff. publisher's advertisements. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; endpapers browned; edges spotted. Minor internal wear and occasional foxing; previous owner's signature to front free endpaper.

London: G.T. Foulis Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. good copy of Blom's essays on music..

London: G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated edition, early to mid 20th century. Firmly bound, red cloth boards, white vellum spine. Dust marks on the spine. Foxing on the half title page. |No jacket, no writing inside.

G. T. Foulis & Company Ltd. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Undated hardback edition, c. 1924/25, with no jacket. In overall fair-to-good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - cream spine has tanned and there is some staining to the leading edges of the boards front and rear. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; tanning to page-ends and slight spotting here and there but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. All illustrations retain their tissue-paper guards. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

London: G. T. Foulis & Company c. 1925. DJ tanned and chipped with some minor loss to spine. Dusty top edge, some foxing, pp good.. Cloth. Good/Good Minus. 8vo.

Hardcover. Good. no dust jacket.Offered by the UK charity Langdon foundation - supporting young men and women with disabilities.

London,. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in very good+ dust jacket. Exceptional condition. . 8vo. pp 301. Original publisher's white buckram over red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout.

London : G. T. Foulis & Company, 91 Great Russell Street, [c1924-1925?], 1925. Very Good. [1st edition] ; 301 pp. ; frontispiece plate, portraits, facsimiles (including music) ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 25-17032 ; LC: ML60 ; OCLC: 1970008 or OCLC: 59780161; red cloth with faux-vellum spine and gold lettering and designs ; no dustjacket ; "The work s dealt with are...linked together by the pathetic circumstance of having come into the world to be Music's stepchildren, ignored by the public at large, and scarcely likely to be made the subject of special study by the professional critic....This collection of desultory essays may, it is hoped, give the reader a taste for exploring the byways of musical history." ; Contents: An offshoot of the Beggar's opera [The dragon of Wantley]--"Brave Galuppi."--The philosopher, the actress, and the boy [Rousseau, Mme. Favart, Mozart]--"Tom Jones" on the French stage.--A misjudged composer [Niccolo Piccinni]--An error of Rossini's youth.--Cherubini in church.--Small… Read More