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London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Good. First edition, fourth impression. Hardback, bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to spine. 23 × 15cm, 402pp. This copy belonged to James Lees-Milne, and has been signed by him to the ffep, as well as having his bookplate to the front pastedown. James Lees-Milne was an architectural historian and played an important part in the acquisition of properties for the National Trust after the Second World War. He was also a novelist but became best known for his witty, waspish and extensive diaries which were published over twelve volumes. A well-regarded biographical study of Queen Elizabeth I by a noted authority on the Elizabethan age. Condition: Good condition. The green cloth boards are a little rubbed and bumped, but the contents are in good condition with just a little tanning to the prelims. (Please note, this copy isn't signed by the author as abe's database will suggest, but by James Lees-Milne, as…
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Queen Elizabeth (signed by James Lees-Milne, with his bookplate)
by J E Neale (James Lees-Milne interest)
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Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists who have Performed on the Lyric Stage from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time (Signed Copy, Inscribed to Clara Louise Kellogg)
by Ellen Creathorne Clayton [Clara Louise Kellogg & Fordyce Barker interest]
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. Assumed first Edition. . Half Leather. Good. Assumed first US edition. Hardback, in a half-leather binding with gilt titling and five raised bands to the spine. Marbled paper covered boards and marbled edges (faint). 20.5 × 14cm, 543pp. This copy was given to American soprano Clara Louise Kellogg in December 1964. The inscription reads "Miss Kellogg from Fordyce Barker, Xmas 1864". Kellogg (1842-1916) was the first US-born prima donna, and in the early 1860s was making her name as Marguerite in the New York premiere of Charles Gounod's Faust. Dr Fordyce Barker (1818-1891) was a well-known New York physician who was at the Bellevue Hospitals in New York in the 1860s. First published in England in 1863, this is a study of female opera singers from the early eighteenth century to the (then) present day, including Katherine Tofts and Magarita de L'Epine, Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, Elizabeth Billington, Rosamunda Pisaroni,…
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Questionings on Criticism and Beauty
by Arthur James Balfour
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. First edition. Paperback. 23 × 15cm, 24pp. This is a verbatim shorthand report of A J Balfour's Romanes Lecture delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, November 24, 1909. It was rewritten and republished in 1910 as 'Criticism and Beauty'. Condition: The covers are in poor condition with creasing to the fore-edge and the spine is torn for the lower 8cm. The contents however are in good plus condition, and perfectly readable with clean pages (bar a little age-toning), and the inner binding is secure.
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