Simont, Marc

Opera Soufflé 60 Pictures in Bravura

New York, Henry Schuman, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (90); profusely illustrated with black and white cartoons; embossed red velvet covered boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers. A series of cartoons describing a night at a performance of Grand Opera. This was Louise Florian's copy with her name and Riverside Drive, New York City address. Florian managed the careers of Beverly Sills, Norman Treigle, Nell Rankin and other singers, she died in 1981. spine extremities lightly chipped else a solid very good copy/chips at extremities else a a good or better.

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Book number: 18053

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Humor

Upton, George P. Editor

Theodore Thomas; a Musical Autobiography; in Two Volumes with Portraits and Views; Volume I; Life; Volume II; Musical Programs

Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes; Octavo; pp. I; 327 with index II; 382; Illustrated, sepia frontispiece portraits in each volume plus thirty-five black and white photographs; Decorated brown cloth, gilt, top edges gilt. Volume I is the Autobiography and Volume II contains the Musical Pograms. Thomas was a German born violinist and conductor. He is considered the first renowned American orchestral conductor and was the founder and first music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. A nice set. Very good .

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Book number: 13370

Catalogue: Music