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[BERNSTEIN, LEONARD].  Conversations about Bernstein.
New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. A book of interviews. Edited and with an Introduction by William Westbrook Burton. Includes interviews with David Diamond, Christa Ludwig, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jo hn Mauceri, Lukas Foss, Jerry Hadley, and a number of others.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 30502
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ALEXANDER, ALFRED.  Operanatomy.
Messina, Orion [1971]. Fine in price-clipped, lightly chipped dust jacket with faded spine and several closed tears. First edition. Printed in Italy. "An eclectic introduction to the art of the conductor, instrumentalist, c omposer, producer, and to score reading, analysis of sound, singer, libretto and public, and adjudication of the critic".
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30490
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D'ALVAREZ, MARGUERITE.  All the bright dreams, an autobiography.
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [1956]. Fine in soiled dust jacket with two short tears. First American edition. Published in 1954 in England under the title Forsaken altars.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30505
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BING, RUDOLF.  5,000 nights at the opera.
London, Hamish Hamilton [1972]. Fine in dust jacket. First English edition. Farkas 1553 ("fascinating document of a career spent at the center of international operatic life").
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30493
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BING, RUDOLF.  A knight at the opera.
New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons [c1981]. Fine in near fine, price-closed dust jacket with closed tear on back panel. First edition. Farkas 1555. Includes a "fascinating exchange of letters with Callas quoted in full about projects that did n ot materialize.".
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 30494
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BLOCK, ADRIENNE FRIED.  Women in American music, a bibliography of music and literature.
Westport, Connecticut, London, Greenwood Press [1979]. Fine. First edition. Compiled and edited by Adrienne Fried Block and Carol Neuls-Bates. Includes historical introduction, pp. xvii-xxvii. Several photographs. 5024 items. 302 p.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 30495
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BLYTH, ALAN, ED.  Opera on record 2.
New York, Beaufort Books Inc. [c1983]. Fine in dust jacket. First American edition. Discographies compiled by Malcolm Walker. The coverage of each opera begins with the era of the 78rpm record and continues with a review of every LP versio n issued up to shortly before the time of publication.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 30561
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BOROVSKY, VICTOR.  Chaliapin, a critical biography.
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Fine in dust jacket. First edition, American issue. Discography by Alan Kelly and Vladimir Gurvich, pp. 541-587.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 30496
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BROWN, DAVID.  Thomas Weelkes, a biographical and critical study.
New York, Washington, Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers [1969]. Original cloth. Mark on bottom edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First American edition. A study of the Elizabethan composer, Thomas Weelkes (1575?-1623).
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30498
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RECORD COLLECTOR*.  The record collector.
[1995-2004]. 4 volumes: v. 40 1995; v. 43-44 1998-99; v. 49 2004. 16 issues. Individual volumes $15.
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 | £UK 24.25 | JP¥ 3530] Book number: 31175
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FARGA, FRANZ.  Die Wiener Oper von ihren Anfaengen bis 1938.
Wien, Verlag A. Franz Goeth & Co., 1947. Ink inscription on second endpaper. Rear hinge repaired with archival tape. Backstrip missing pieces along edge. Otherwise very good in torn dust jacket. In German. Farkas, Opera and concert singers: "His materials concerning three centuries of 'masters' are quite valuable. An excellent book".
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30508
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FARKAS, ANDREW, ED.  Lawrence Tibbett, singing actor. With an introduction and discography by William R. Moran.
Portland, Oregon, Amadeus Press [c1989]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30509
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FINCK, HENRY T.  My adventures in the golden age of music.
New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1926. Some text pages foxed, rubbed at top of spine, light staining, otherwise very good. First edition. Farkas 1614.
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 30511
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FISCHER-DIESKAU, DIETRICH.  Reverberations, the memoirs of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
New York, Fromm International Publishing Corporation [c1989]. Manufacturing flaw (small hole), pp. 51-52, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First U.S. edition. Translated by Ruth Hein.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 30512
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GILLIAM, DOROTHY BUTLER.  Paul Robeson, All-American.
Washington, D. C., The New Republic Book Company, Inc. [1976]. Fine in unevenly faded, lightly chipped dust jacket with several closed tears. First edition. Farkas 1199. "The first full-length biography of Robeson following his death in 1976, it contains many fac tual details relating to his personal, professional and political life not found in other sources".
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 30515
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GOLDIN, MILTON.  The music merchants.
[New York] The Macmillan Company, London, Collier-Macmillan Ltd. [c1969]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Bibliography, p. [217]-225. Preface: "The objective is to examine informally the history of opera houses, orchestras, impresarios and patrons, and to come to some c onclusions about the way musical institutions have been molded".
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30518
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GOLDOVSKY, BORIS.  My road to opera: the recollections of Boris Goldovsky as told To Curtis Cate.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Fine in dust jacket with a few, short, closed tears. First edition. Illustrated with photographs.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30519
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GOLLANCZ, VICTOR.  The Ring at Bayreuth: and some thoughts on operatic production.
London [Victor Gollancz] 1966. Ownership signature of Merrill Knapp, professor of music at Princeton University, dated 7/69. Near fine in unevenly faded dust jacket chipped along top edge. First edition. Afterword by Wieland Wagner.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30521
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HAMMOND, JOAN.  A voice, a life: autobiography.
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1970. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise very good in rubbed, soiled, and marked dust jacket. First edition. Many photographs. 264 p. Farkas 616. Hammond was born in New Zealand and raised in Sydney. Include s a discography, p. [249] -256.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30523
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HARRISON, MAX.  The Lieder of Brahms.
London, Cassell [1972]. Fine in dust jacket with short closed tear on back panel. First edition. 152 p. Discusses his development and contribution to the German lied.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30524
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HENDERSON, W. J.  Some forerunners of Italian opera.
New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1911. Fine in maroon gold-stamped cloth. First edition. A short study of the lyric drama in Italy prior to the birth of opera, particularly the role of Poliziano's Orfeo. 243 p.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 30525
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HETHERINGTON, JOHN.  Melba, a biography.
London, Faber & Faber [1967]. Fine in dust jacket with short closed tear on front panel. First edition. A particularly attractive copy. Farkas: "by far the most definitive biography". 312 p. Profusely illustrated.
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 | £UK 24.25 | JP¥ 3530] Book number: 30527
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HUTCHESON, ERNEST.  Elektra, by Richard Strauss. A guide to the opera with music examples from the score.
New York, G. Schirmer; Boston, Boston Music Co., 1910. Cloth, printed label. Label chipped, front hinge starting, otherwise very good. Without dust jacket. First edition. 61 p.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 30530
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JOHNSON, H. EARLE.  Operas on American subjects.
New York, Coleman-Ross Company, Inc., 1964. Ink date on front free endpaper, otherwise very good in original blue cloth stamped in silver. First edition. 125 p. Topics include Spanish-American, Indian, American revolution, Christopher Columbus, Civil War, Mormons, Race Relations, Salem, Massachusetts, rural and urban North America subjects.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 30531
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KNAPP, J. MERRILL.  The magic of opera.
New York [etc.] Harper & Row Publishers [c1972]. Very good in dust jacket torn and missing pieces along top edge of front panel. First edition. Includes a section "The Singers" discussing categories of voice, p. 82-90. Illustrated with many musical examples.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 30534
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