Boult Adrian Cedric (11 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. no dust jacket. First Edition. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 ", 75 pages. Previous owner's book plate on front inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Hardcover in DJ; 213pp; Clean, tight copy, VG+/VG condition. Memoirs of Sir Adrian Boult, distinguished British conductor. Illustrated with photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 76pp. Quarter bound in brown cloth under paper-covered boards; red titles on front. 8vo. Sun-faded boards, rubbed corners and spine ends, bumped top rear edge. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers starting to tan; gift inscription on front free endpaper; pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.…

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Paper by Composer Sir Adrian Cedric Boult. Undated. Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, 1889 - 1983 was a British conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924. When the British Broadcasting Corporation appointed him director of music in 1930, he established the BBC Symphony Orchestra and became its chief conductor. The orchestra set standards of excellence that were rivalled in Britain only by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), founded two years later. Size is 185mm x 115mm. Condition is good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18815. Signed by Author(s). …

Size: 8vo. 213pp. + plates. Publisher's hardback with printed dust-jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author: "Good wishes to a co-enthusiast, Adrian Cedric Boult, October 1973".

See Michael Kennedy's assessment of Boult, in his entry in the Oxford DNB: 'In the music he admired most, Boult was often a great conductor; in the rest, an extremely conscientious one.' Good bold signature ('Adrian C. Boult') is centred on one side of an 11.5 x 9 cm piece of card. The signature and the space around it are clear, but the discoloured card has a smudge on it, and carries traces of previous mount on reverse. At foot of signed side, in pencil:Sir Adrian Boult - Conductor of the B.B.C.Orchestra London / Famous English Conductor'. See Image.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (x), 342 pp with monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].…

Settima edizione. Cartoncino morbido editoriale, titoli al piatto, ritratto fotografico dell'autore, testo in inglese, 2 tavole in b/n fuori testo, illustrazioni in b/n nel testo, ottime condizioni. in 8° pp. (6), 48, II tavv.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Second impression 1973. Plates throughout. The book is inscribed by Reginald Jennings on the front free endpaper and has a two page handwritten letter from Boult sellotaped inside front cover which starts, Dear Reginald. Some pencil markings to index and rear endpaper. page edges slightly thumbed and foxed. Dustwrapper is slightly rubbed, else very good copy. Plates throughout. (illustrator). …

Both cards self-stamped. CARD ONE is very good and has printed on it a stamp of Queen Elizabeth II. Addressed to Powell and his wife, it does not appear to have gone through the mails. 'Most kind of you to write - we led a quick in the car, & then a meeting in the afternoon. We : Jill also, who we havent seen lately. | Many thanks | [signed] Adrian C. B.' CARD TWO is somewhat aged, with a stain and some wear on the address side. It reads 'I too have written to Kellogg's! | [signed] Adrian C Boult'.…