A D'Oyly Carte Album by Wood, Roger:

Adam & Charles Black, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. First Edition. 66 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Boards are bowed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Adam & Charles Black, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover, no dj. Moderate rubbing and staining to covers. Contents clean and tight. 66 pages, b&w photos.

A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1958. Second Edition. 68 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm with mild creasing to gutters. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

A & C Black 2nd edn 1958 . 4to, VG+ in torn + crsed d/w with sm amts of loss 386 gms.

London: Adam and Charles Black. Good. Hardcover. 1953. 66 pages. Dj ripped and worn. Name on ffep<br> .

Adam & Charles Black , 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Gift inscription was written by the previous owner. Foreword by Bridget D'oyly Carte. Publication of 66 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, small tears and edge worn. The boards are in good condition. a small piece of the spine panel is missing. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Adamm & Charles Black. Bound in clean dark red cloth, with bright gilt titles to front board and spine, this 1958 hardcover Second Edition is VG. 68pp with Foreword by Bridget D'Oyle Carte, Introduction, Text and B/W stage Photographs on 11 Operas. For example, Pirates of Penzance features Darrell Fancourt as The Pirate King, Neville Griffiths as Frederic, Murial harding as Mabel, Peter Pratt as Major-General, Stanley, and Ann Drummond-Grant as Ruth, the Pirate Maid. Name on FFEP, otherwise all VG . Very Good. Hardback. Second Edition. 1958.