Music: A Joy for Life

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1976. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. author's note, glossary of musical terms, biographical notes on composers, index and acknowledgements. Illustrated half title page, being a reproduction of an 18th century engraving by George Bickham from " The Musical Entertainer ". Photographic title page ( double ) showing author rehearsing the London Symphony Orchestra in 1974. The text is illustrated with copious coloured and black-and-white photographs, illustrations, facsimiles of musical scores and theatre posters. Beige coloured endpapers. Maroon coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the spine. Photographic dustwrapper, showing Edward Heath conducting ( coloured photograph on the front panel and black-and-white on the rear ), with white coloured titles to the front panel and spine. In this book the former Prime Minister of England Sir Edward Heath, uses his lifetime, and the musical influences of that lifetime, to express joy in music and appreciation of the same. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and the shelfwear to the lower book edges. Bumping into the top edge along with some dust marks. Very slight browning to the paper edges. Some marks to the endpapers and some handling marks internally. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the spine. Multiple small nicks and chips to the top dustwrapper edge and a few to the lower. Some creasing and crinkling to the dustwrapper edge. Rubbing to the creases of the dustwrapper as well. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 208 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Music; ISBN: 0283983493. ISBN/EAN: 9780283983498. Inventory No: 0104154. . 9780283983498