britten benjamin ed (12 résultats)

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. 410 pages. Ex-college library marks, sunning to the spine and cover edge; pages lightly toned; a sound binding; good overall. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance; Inventory No: 233270.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Imperial octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Hamish Hamilton, 1979. Hardback, d/j, 4to, xxxi,382pp, illust. D/j slightly bumped. A good copy. 0241102561/1.7 . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. xxxii, 384 pp. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped jacket from a design by John Piper. Edge wear to jacket and bumping and rubbing to book extremities. Internally clean. Contributions by Janet Baker, Basil Coleman, Eric Crozier, Colin Graham, Hans Keller, John Piper, Myfanwy Piper and Andrew Porter. Illustrations in colour and black and white. 0241102561 4to.

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London 1979. 4to. 382 pages. Illustrated in b/w. Orig. cloth in dust wrappers.Spine of wrappers discreetly sunned. Near fine / Very good wrappers.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Not Stated. Both volumes Very Good+, with no markings, annotations etc. on the text, the bindings are tight and the pages are bright. Dust Jackets are VG- with some fading to the spines and some chips and fraying to the extrems. Comes with slipcase.

All first editions, first printings. Octavos, pp., xxvii, [2], 1403, [3] (vols. 1-2 paginated continuously); xxvi, 758; xxvi, 633, [1]; xlix, 764; xxx, 806; xxii, [1], 576. Numerous archival photographs, facsimiles of letters and scores within text. All original publisher's black, grey, and red cloth, titled in gilt to spines, all in original publisher's unclipped dust-jackets; pictorial end-papers to each volume. Volumes 1 and 2 in the original slate-grey slipcase. Spine-panel of volumes 1 and 2 sunned to yellow, jackets otherwise bright and fresh. Volume 5 bound upside down, bindings otherwise tight and strong. Contents clean and free of annotations or inscriptions. A very good to near-fine set in like jackets. A comprehensive portrait of the composer's life, from his earliest correspondence at the age of 10, to his final letters. A landmark work of scholarship, this six volume set includes detailed editorial commentary with exhaustive archival documentation. Britten was hailed as the most significant British composer of the twentieth century. His influence was profound, and his operatic, vocal, and orchestral works continue to be performed around the world. The full first edition set of the definitive scholarly edition which captures both the composer's life, and his world. Heavyweight, so an additional postage contribution may be requested for shipping to overseas addresses. ODNB.