x, 310pp, black and white photographic frontispiece, 16 black and white plates. Fuchsia cloth-covered boards, silver titles on printed yellow spine label. 8vo. Spine heel lightly bumped, text block edges starting to fox and tan. Previous owner's label on front free endpaper. Internally pages are slightly tanned, otherwise a neat, clean, bright and tight volume. Pictorial dust jacket has Brodart style sleeve, spine is slightly sun-faded with light foxing, price clipped.
The autobiography of Ivor Newton, packed with stories of the greatest musical personalities of the time, ranging from Clara Butt to Supervia, from Lotte Lehmann to Lily Pons. Ivor Newton has brought music to royal palaces, prisons, stately homes, cellars during the blitz, to concert halls all over he world and, in wartime alone, from Scapa Flow to the Persian Gulf.
