Published by Collins, 1955
Seller: EYES WIDE OPEN, London, United Kingdom
Cloth DW (sl frayed) frontis + 447pp .clean & bright.
Published by Dennis Dobson, London, 1965
Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. Edited and annotated by Percy M. Young. Includes facsimiles, black and white photographs and illustrations, appendix, and index. Dustjacket spine slightly sunned, small stains, edgewear with small piece missing from inner flap,former owner's neat name on front free endpaper, else, a clean, unmarked copy.
Published by Bles, 1956
Seller: EYES WIDE OPEN, London, United Kingdom
Cloth frontis + xxiii + 371pp + 15pp pl.The composers dates written neatly on title page otherwise nr Fine.
Published by Dobson, 1965
Seller: Austin Sherlaw-Johnson, Secondhand Music, Oxford, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some wear/slight loss to price-clipped jacket. Slight shelf wear.
Published by Denis Dobson, 1978., 1978
ISBN 10: 0234774827 ISBN 13: 9780234774823
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edition. 8vo. 201pp. B/w. illustrations. Origial boards. Pictorial cream d/w. lettered in brown and black, spine lightly faded, slightly rubbed. ISBN 0234774827 US$12.
Published by London: Dobson, 1978. *, 1978
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
8vo 201 pages. Cloth in sunned d/w. Frontis. and plates, some in colour.
Published by London, 1955. *, 1955
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
8vo 447 pages. Cloth in slightly worn and browned d/w, in transparent protective covers, top edge dusty. Pages a little browned, else internally VG. Frontis., plates incl. facsimiles of music examples.
Published by Geoffrey Bles, London, 1956
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by Percy M. Young. Text bright, spotting on closed edges, boards and binding firm, light shelf wear to dust jacket, price clipped. Size: 8vo.
Condition: Very Good. London, Collins, 1955. 8vo. 447 pp.+ plates. Publ. cloth with dustwrapper. Hardcover / Hardback.
Published by Dennis Dobson, London, 1968
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. 8vo. xx, 291 pp. Photographic frontispiece and 8 plates, illusts in the text. Original red hard cloth in the dust-jacket, slightly creased with a couple of short nicks. Book.
Published by Dennis Dobson, London, 1965
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Signed
Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed by Percy M. Young. Pages clean and bright, boards and binding tidy, dust jacket price clipped, old price sticker on inner sleeve of jacket, 3cm closed tear on rear of jacket, otherwise neat. Size: 8vo. Signed By The Editor.
Published by Purnell Book Services, Ltd, London, 1973
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Second Edition, Book Club Edition. 207 x 135 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4). 447 pp. STRIKING OLIVE CRUSHED MOROCCO, INLAID AND ONLAID, BY PAUL DELRUE (signed in ink and dated 1973 on front flyleaf), covers and smooth spine with wraparound design composed of the word "ELGAR" in maril onlay of multicolor leathers near foot of boards, and above it a swath of flying birds inlaid in russet leather, RUSSET MOROCCO DOUBLURES with flight of birds onlaid in black morocco, and quotes from Elgar blind-stamped in majuscules, marbled free endpapers, all edges gilt. In a green cloth solander box with paper medallion portrait of Elgar on front cover and brown leather title label on spine. With 20 black & white photographs, including a frontispiece portrait. âAs new. First printed in 1955, this definitive biography of the self-taught musician described by DNB as "certainly the greatest composer to arise in England since the death of Purcell in 1695" is offered here in a very creative binding by a modern British master. The son of a music shop owner, Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) showed an early talent for music, playing piano in the great houses where his father went to tune the instruments. Elgar scholar Percy Young (1912-2004) traces Elgar's growth as musician and composer from his early career in Worcestershire through his triumphs in London, including his appointment to the Order of Merit (the "O. M." of the title) by King George V--he was the first musician to be so honored. Saying that his music represents "the essence of 'Englishness,'" DNB notes that "his ceremonial music has become part of the national heritage, while his lighter pieces appeal to a public which might not care as much for his symphonies and oratorios." It was the English countryside that most inspired him, and binder Paul Delrue has paid tribute to that, both with the maril onlays in muted colors that evoke a pastoral landscape and with the quotes he has tooled on the doublures: "My idea is there is music in the air, music all around me / I do all my composing in the open / at home all I have to do is write it down" and "This is what I hear all day / the trees are singing my music / or I have sung theirs." Delrue (1944-2024) was a long-standing Fellow of Designer Bookbinders and a founding member and Patron of the Society of Bookbinders, practicing his craft in Wales for nearly 60 years. In the words of Dominic Riley, Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, "He may have produced more artistic bindings than any other of his contemporaries, and his work is cherished by discerning collectors everywhere.".