Fifty Years of Song by Peter Dawson

Fifty Years of Song

by Peter Dawson

Hutchinson & Co., 1951, [First Edition],16 b/w illustrations, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, book in fine condition, dustjacket repaired, price-clipped with small tears, chips and creasing, small part dustjacket missing at spine (see photographs)

'Peter Dawson was born of Scottish parents in South Australia in 1882.  For a long time after he left school he was torn between plumbing and singing as a profession.  It is the good fortune of all the millions of people throughout the world who have enjoyed hearing his magnificent singing voice that he finally turned his back on plumbing and came to England to study under the late Sir Charles Santley.'