Twang With Our Music.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. [Music History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.156. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s. Contents clean, covers a little soiled, jacket is used with some chips and tears, tape repair to rear. Very good. The Reverend Basil Maine, music scholar and biographer of Elgar, taught the Fleming brothers Peter and Ian at Durnford School, Dorset. A family friend of the Flemings, he later took the service when Peter Fleming married Celia Johnson. This copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with pencil ownership. Item #71707
Gilbert pp.654, 657.
Price: £38.00
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