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| Covent Garden Books 12: Opera 12 Covent Garden, Royal Opera House. 1960. Pictorial Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The operas performed at Covent Garden 1 January 1957 - 16 May 1960. With details of casts and numerous photographs. Very Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 003629 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| Glyndbourne 1952 Festival Progamme Book London, Glyndbourne Festival Society. 1952. Soft Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Founded November 1951 this is the Festival Progamme for 1952. With list of corporate and individual members. Photographs of artists taking part in Glyndebourne Festival Season 1952. Some loss at base of front cover and edges with small tears fraying and creases. A little foxing on back cover. Very Good. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 US$ 58.14 | JP¥ 5136] Book number: 004716 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| BIZET, GEORGES Carmen. An Opera London, Novello and Company Limited. Soft Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. [1926] Words and music. Selected and adapted for concert performance by W. McNaught. The Libretto from the English version of the complete opera by Lucia Young. Edgewear to covers, particularly down edge of spine and front cover. Good/No Jacket. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 | JP¥ 1467] Book number: 001805 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| GILBERT, W. S. The Savoy Operas. Being the Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1896 London, Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1935. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 698pp. Covers of dark blue calf leather with blind tooled borders, gilt illustration on centre front cover, gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Gilt to all page edges. Small tear at top of spine; light wear to cover corners; name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Very Good. GBP 34.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.75 US$ 56.47 | JP¥ 4989] Book number: 002462 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| HALTRECHT, MONTAGUE The Quiet Showman: Sir David Webster and the Royal Opera House London, Collins. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002111632) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The story of the making of an opera house, and of its guiding genius. 319pp. Some foxing and soiling to page edges. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 | JP¥ 1467] Book number: 003656 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| HETHERINGTON, JOHN Melba London, Faber and Faber. 1967, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Included is a letter, about the book and Nellie Melba, from the author to a previous owner. The last rays of the Golden Age of Grand Opera flickered out when Dame Nellie Melba died in 1931. Generous and mean, kindly and ruthless, steadfast and capricious, with a prodigious talent for self-dramatization balanced by a Napoleonic gift of realism, Melba combined a unique voice and unsurpassed musical intelligence with unerring business acumen and a readiness to overthow any rival who even seemed likely to threaten her. 312pp. Dust jacket not price clipped, has several minor marks on the front and the book has an inscription by a previous owner on the front free endpaper. Fine/Very Good. GBP 16.30 [Appr.: EURO 18.25 US$ 27.07 | JP¥ 2392] Book number: 000099 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| JEUDWINE, WYNNE Stage Designs Feltham, Country Life Books. 1968, First Edition. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reproductions of 16th-19th century stage designs. 64pp. Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 003887 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| KOBBE, GUSTAV The Complete Opera Book. The Stories of the Operas, Together with 410 of the Leading airs and Motives in Musical Notation London, New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1933. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated with sixty-three portraits in costume and scenes from opera. Light wear to cover edges, small tear at top of spine, average soiling to covers. Good/No Jacket. GBP 8.30 [Appr.: EURO 9.25 US$ 13.79 | JP¥ 1218] Book number: 001907 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| TOURS, BERTHOLD (EDITOR) Martha. A Comic Romantic Opera in Four Acts Composed By F. Von Flotow London, Novello and Company Limited. 1956. Soft Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Music and score of F. von Flotow's opera. English translation by Natalia MacFarren. Wear to base of spine and less so to top. Some chips to edges, general edgewear and soiling. Good/No Jacket. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 001804 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. | ||
| WECHSBERG, JOSEPH Red Plush & Black Velvet London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1962, Third Impression. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the days before radio, television and the cinema the greatest entertainment celebrity was the reigning operatic prima donna. During the last part of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Nellie Melba ruled the opera houses of Europe and America as the greatest coloratura soprano of her time. Made more 'final' appearances than Sinatra.376pp. Dust jacket has tear at top front, top/bottom of spine and one corner. Inscription by previous owner on books front free endpaper. Very Good/Fair. GBP 10.30 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 US$ 17.11 | JP¥ 1511] Book number: 000036 Click here to order or inquire at Andmeister Books. |
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