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Biographies: Artists & Musicians

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	RUTH CRACKNELL Journey From Venice, A Memoir Melbourne, Viking. 2000. (ISBN: 0670886149) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Biography. Memoir. The story of Australian actress Ruth Cracknell and her husband Eric's holiday in Venice; essentially it is a love story. 273 pages. Fine/Fine. AUD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.24 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 816] Book number: AE7166 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	TEXT BY BERNARD GAVOTY PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS BY ROGER HAUERT Herbert von Karajan (Great Concert Artists) Geneva, Rene Kister. 1956. (ISBN: No ISBN) Soft Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Music Biography. Softcover book in d/j, 32 pages, stiff card covers, d/j id poor and worn and torn completely on fold, book itself is very good, with just some foxing on eps. Very Good/Poor. AUD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 13.86 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1225] Book number: MB10577 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	LIBERMAN, ALEXANDER Marlene, an Intimate Photographic Memoir NY, Random House. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 067942086X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Photographs of Marlene Dietrich onstage & at home with her grandchildren; most never before published; issued with a music cd which is NOT included. 120pp. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.24 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 816] Book number: 0122 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	EDITED BY EMANUELE SENICI The Cambridge Companion To Rossini Cambridge University Press. 2004. (ISBN: 0521001951) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Music Biography. A collection of specially commissioned essays on Gioachino Rossini; divided into four parts covering Rossini's world and his works: biography and reception, words and music, representative operas, and performance; chapters also centre on individual works: 'Tancredi', 'Il barbiere di Siviglia', 'Semiramide', and 'Guillaume Tell'. 264 pages. NEW. AUD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 34 US$ 50.82 \| £UK 30.75 \| JP¥ 4490] Book number: MB8271 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	ROBERT SIMPSON Carl Nielsen Symphonist 1865-1931 London, J M Dent and Sons. 1952, First Edition. (ISBN: No ISBN) Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Music Biography. Biography of Danish composer Carl Nielsen; illustrated with photographs and musical quotations (J M Dent & Sons, London, first edition, 1952) Used hardcover book, no d/j, 236 pages, ex-library with the usual marks and stamps, pocket inside cover, marked brown cloth worn on edges & bumped on corners, foxing on edges of pages. Good/No Jacket. AUD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 13.86 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1225] Book number: MB10511 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	SMITH, STUART M Great Names in Music Exeter, UK, Wheaton of Exeter. 1962, First Edition. (ISBN: No ISBN) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Tallis, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, J Strauss, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Grieg, Mahler, Elgar, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, R Strauss, 20th Century composers; 27 b/w plates. Good hardcover in poor d/j, 112pp, presentation plate on fep along with previous owner's name and address stamp, also fep has a small piece missing from bottom right corner. Good/Poor. AUD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 US$ 23.1 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2041] Book number: 0811 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	JOSEPH WECHSBERG Red Plush And Black Velvet, The Story Of Dame Nellie Melba And Her Times London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1962. (ISBN: No ISBN) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Music. Opera. Biography. During the last part of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, Nellie Melba ruled the opera houses of Europe and America as the greatest coloratura soprano of her time; this book is a unique combination of biography, social commentary and musical history; 12 b/w illustrations. Price-clipped d/j, 376 pages, foxing on eps, d/j worn on edges and taped across top of spine. Very Good/Good. AUD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 13.86 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1225] Book number: MB7226 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.

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	RUTH CRACKNELL Journey From Venice, A Memoir Melbourne, Viking. 2000. (ISBN: 0670886149) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Biography. Memoir. The story of Australian actress Ruth Cracknell and her husband Eric's holiday in Venice; essentially it is a love story. 273 pages. Fine/Fine. AUD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.24 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 816] Book number: AE7166 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	TEXT BY BERNARD GAVOTY PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS BY ROGER HAUERT Herbert von Karajan (Great Concert Artists) Geneva, Rene Kister. 1956. (ISBN: No ISBN) Soft Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Music Biography. Softcover book in d/j, 32 pages, stiff card covers, d/j id poor and worn and torn completely on fold, book itself is very good, with just some foxing on eps. Very Good/Poor. AUD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 13.86 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1225] Book number: MB10577 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	LIBERMAN, ALEXANDER Marlene, an Intimate Photographic Memoir NY, Random House. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 067942086X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Photographs of Marlene Dietrich onstage & at home with her grandchildren; most never before published; issued with a music cd which is NOT included. 120pp. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.24 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 816] Book number: 0122 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	EDITED BY EMANUELE SENICI The Cambridge Companion To Rossini Cambridge University Press. 2004. (ISBN: 0521001951) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Music Biography. A collection of specially commissioned essays on Gioachino Rossini; divided into four parts covering Rossini's world and his works: biography and reception, words and music, representative operas, and performance; chapters also centre on individual works: 'Tancredi', 'Il barbiere di Siviglia', 'Semiramide', and 'Guillaume Tell'. 264 pages. NEW. AUD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 34 US$ 50.82 \| £UK 30.75 \| JP¥ 4490] Book number: MB8271 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	ROBERT SIMPSON Carl Nielsen Symphonist 1865-1931 London, J M Dent and Sons. 1952, First Edition. (ISBN: No ISBN) Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Music Biography. Biography of Danish composer Carl Nielsen; illustrated with photographs and musical quotations (J M Dent & Sons, London, first edition, 1952) Used hardcover book, no d/j, 236 pages, ex-library with the usual marks and stamps, pocket inside cover, marked brown cloth worn on edges & bumped on corners, foxing on edges of pages. Good/No Jacket. AUD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 13.86 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1225] Book number: MB10511 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	SMITH, STUART M Great Names in Music Exeter, UK, Wheaton of Exeter. 1962, First Edition. (ISBN: No ISBN) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Tallis, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, J Strauss, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Grieg, Mahler, Elgar, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, R Strauss, 20th Century composers; 27 b/w plates. Good hardcover in poor d/j, 112pp, presentation plate on fep along with previous owner's name and address stamp, also fep has a small piece missing from bottom right corner. Good/Poor. AUD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 US$ 23.1 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2041] Book number: 0811 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.
	JOSEPH WECHSBERG Red Plush And Black Velvet, The Story Of Dame Nellie Melba And Her Times London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1962. (ISBN: No ISBN) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Music. Opera. Biography. During the last part of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, Nellie Melba ruled the opera houses of Europe and America as the greatest coloratura soprano of her time; this book is a unique combination of biography, social commentary and musical history; 12 b/w illustrations. Price-clipped d/j, 376 pages, foxing on eps, d/j worn on edges and taped across top of spine. Very Good/Good. AUD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 13.86 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1225] Book number: MB7226 Click here to order or inquire at Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music.