The Orchestra Speaks by Bernard Shore - 1948

Longmans Green and Co, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1938. New Impression. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with photographic black and white plates to the front of the book. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper with visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and moderate rubbing to spine.

Longmans, Green & Co, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Longmans, Green & Co, 1946. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1946. 217 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Longmans, Green & Co, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

London: Longmans Green and Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1946. Thirteenth Printing. Hardcover. Missing DJ, corners lightly bumped, light edge wear, ink name to front endpaper. Some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Thirteenth printing, January 1946. Pale blue cloth boards with black lettering to spine, photo frontis.. Nice tight copy. ; 232 pages; A description of life in a major orchestra by the former principal viola of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Chapters on many of the leading conductors of the day. .

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London England: Longmans, Green and Co. Very Good/No Jacket. 1946. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo Hardcover Hardcover. The Orchestra Speaks. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Slight wear to corners of cloth. Blue cloth with black lettering. Contents: Prelude. Sir Thomas Beecham. Sir Adrian Bolt. Pau Casals. Albert Coates. Eugene Goossens, John Barbirolli, Leslie Heward, Julius Harrison. Sir Hamilton Harty. Sergei Koussevitsky. Willem Mengelberg. Modern Music. Malcolm Sargent. Arturo Toscanini. Sir Henry Wood. With a Frontispiece. 218 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .