White Eric Walter, Signed (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 141. Original publishers black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed by Michael Tippett on the title page. ISBN: 0214205738 Fine in fine dust jacket.

8vo. pp [4]. Original publisher's blue stapled covers, lettered black. Signed presentation from the author to classical music writer, Donald Mitchell and his wife on the front endpaper, 'To Donald and Kathleen, with love from Eric and in remembrance of Dodo 1978.' A poem of about 60 lines by Eric Walter White in remembrance of his late wife -'now the long loneliness begins.' Slight water marking on the rear cover, otherwise sound, sl creasing at edges o/w near very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Maroon cloth cover with gilt titles. Originally published in 1966, this is 3rd ed. from 1972. Inscribed by author to Peter Racine Fricker, an English composer then on staff at UC Santa Barbara, on ffep. In very good condition in like jacket (minimally sunned spine/closed tear to lower edge). 608 pp. Further, Fricker has signed his name on title. Strong scholarly study of Stravinsky by mid-century scholar of contemporary composers - see also Britten. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Not price-clipped. SIGNED and with a warm inscription by the author to peter Porter. Physical description; 256 pages, 24 plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 26 cm. Notes; Originally published: 1948. Subjects; Britten, Benjamin, 19131976. Composers England 20th century Biography. English opera 20th century History and criticism. British music 20th century. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Not price-clipped. SIGNED and with a warm inscription by the author to peter Porter. Physical description; 256 pages, 24 plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 26 cm. Notes; Originally published: 1948. Subjects; Britten, Benjamin, 19131976. Composers England 20th century Biography. English opera 20th century History and criticism. British music 20th century. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography of English composer Benjamin Britten, signed by the author in presentation to his daughter. First edition. Signed by the author to the half title "with fondest love" to his daughter, anti-racism activist and co-founder of New Beacon Books Sarah and her partner John. Illustrated with twenty-four photographs. Collated complete. The life of Edward Benjamin Britten, an English composer, conductor, and pianist who was a central figure of twentieth-century British music. With commentary on his operas and other works. Written by Eric Walter White, an English musicologist, composer, translator, editor, poet, writer, and arts administrator. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. With author's ink inscription to the half title. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. The book is bound in black boards with clean. bright & unmarked labels on the spine & front cover. Very, very light wear on the edges. Contents clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. Flat-signed by both the author & artist on the front endpaper. States: "300 Copies". The dust jacket has light wear on the edges & the spine is 70% detached from the front cover. Protected by Mylar book jacket cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. The book is bound in yellow boards with very light fading along the edges. Swan silhouette on the front cover. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "Printed at/The Perpetual Press/ 36 Broad Street/ Bristol/ 200 Copies". This is copy # 28 signed by the author. The plain brown dust jacket has wear on the spine tips. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first impression, dedication copy from the author to his wife; 8vo; publisher's tan cloth, titles to spine gilt on a black ground, black topstain, with the dust jacket, in the particularly good dust-jacket. The non plus ultra example being the copy inscribed by the author to his wife to whom the book is formally dedicated, 'TO MY WIFE'. With White signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, ' To Dodo without whose sympathy, encouragement and judgement this book cd never have been written Eric 1947'. Eric Walter White's first foray into the critical study of Stravinsky about whom he would go on to write a compendious history. Through these two works White became the great composer's most important biographer. Eric and Dodo white married in 1939.

Condition: Very Good. 12mo. 5 inches by 4. pp 8. Folded sheet with tribute poem on the 2 middle pages. On the back page is written 'with best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from Eric W White. 55 Cholmley Gardens, N. W. 6. Poem is by 'E.W.W.' White later wrote 'Images of H.D.' No date, c.1961. Fine. Signedes.

First Edition. Near fine condition, faintly dust-dulled. Christmas card from Eric Walter White and his wife, Edith Dorothy ("Dodo") White, to Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Signed and inscribed. Physical description; 1 folded leaf, 17 cm. Subjects; Ephemera. Christmas card. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine condition, faintly dust-dulled. Christmas card from Eric Walter White and his wife, Edith Dorothy ("Dodo") White to Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Signed and inscribed. Physical description; 1 folded leaf, 13 cm. Subjects; Ephemera. Christmas card. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine condition, faintly dust-dulled. Christmas card from Eric Walter White and his wife, Edith Dorothy ("Dodo") White, to Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Signed and inscribed. Physical description; 1 folded leaf, 17 cm. Subjects; Ephemera. Christmas card. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine condition, faintly dust-dulled. Christmas card from Eric Walter White and his wife, Edith Dorothy ("Dodo") White to Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Signed and inscribed. Physical description; 1 folded leaf, 13 cm. Subjects; Ephemera. Christmas card. 1 Kg.