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1955 My Record of Music
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed
Compton Mackenzie was a Scottish author of novels, biographies, histories and memoirs, as well as a cultural commentator. This volume retraces the Mackenzie's career in relation to Gramophone, a still-influential classical music magazine founded by the author and his brother Christopher Stone. Mackenzie was first encouraged to writer some of the earliest gramophone record reviews by Robin Legge of The Daily Telegraph.
Signed by the author to the title page.
Illustrated with a frontispiece and three full page plates. Collated, complete.
Condition
In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear and minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, faint minor damp marking to the extremities. Signed by the author to the title page. Inscribed by a previous owner to the front free endpaper, dated 1976. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three full page plates. Collated, complete.
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