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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. DJ is price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. With jacket. 288 pp. VG+ / VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in as new condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There are two sets of numbers to the obverse of the title page indicating that this an ex library boobut shows no signs of having been either issued or, indeed, read! The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition and has been covered in removable, clear, mylar, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The writings of Ernest Newman are as popular today as they were thirty years ago, the re-issues of 'Gluk And The Opera', 'Wagner as Man and Artist', 'The Unconcious Beethoven' and 'The Man Liszt' have all been enthusiastically received. This book is in effect a completely new volume by Newman, a volume that consists of essays and criticisms concerning Berlioz, all of which appeared separately throughout Newman's life and which have never before been collected together. Newman was the very first English champion of Berlioz and through much of his immensely long life he was a virtually single-handed champion. Ernest Newman (30 November 1868 - 7 July 1959) was an English music critic and musicologist. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as "the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century." His style of criticism, aiming at intellectual objectivity in contrast to the more subjective approach of other critics, such as Neville Cardus, was reflected in his books on Richard Wagner, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and others. He was music critic of The Sunday Times from 1920 until his death nearly forty years later. His other positions included chief music critic of The Birmingham Post from 1906 to 1919, as well as brief stints as the chief music critic for The Guardian (1905-1906) and The Observer (1919). Distinguished critic Ernest Newman insisted: "A thing is never beautiful or ugly for Berlioz, it is either divine or horrible." Ref QQ 3.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 288 printed pages of text with monochrome photographic frontispiece. Spine ends creased, red ink message in German dated 1972 to the front free end paper, foxing to the closed upper edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with minimal wear to the edges, a little sun fading of the green to the spine, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0575013656 MUSIC [Classical].