DENNIS BRAIN: A LIFE IN MUSIC

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with white titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine tips and corners, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the author's inscription on the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the original rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is somewhat creased to the laminate, but bright and without loss or tears.

Inscribed in blue ink on the front endpaper "8 June 2011 / This new biography of Dennis Brain / is given by the authors to Herr Müller-Lupp / and the Heinrich Kaminski Gesellschaft / with thanks for the score of Kaminski's / Ballade, discussed in relation to Brain's / recording for RIAS, Berlin, 18 September 1950 / (see pages 170-171 and discography, page 269) / We hope this book will be of interest / to you. / with warmest wishes from the both of us / Stephen Gamble / York, North Yorkshire". Further signed by Stephen Gamble in blue ink on the title page.