RUTSCHOWSCAYA Marie-HeleneMareMagnum
NEWLANDSMITH E.MareMagnum
Twenty Years an Anglican Friar. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Roy. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), some light and occasional spotting; original brown boards, backstrip with paper label printed in black, uncut, a few leaves poorly opened else a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED AND DECORATED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The recipients are the author's close friends Colonel & Mrs Goddard; Newlandsmith has decorated his inscription with a musical stave captioned 'Ad Dei Gloriam'. The first volume of 'The Musician's Pilgrimage', the autobiography of the famous musicologist, founder of the New Life Movement and transcriber of Coptic church music. Extremely scarce, especially as a presentation copy. We have been unable to trace any institutional copy of this work.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB392,38 €