Author: HOWARD, JOHN TASKER
Title: The World's Great Operas: Newly Enlarged Edition (Modern Library First Edition, ML #302. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first Modern Library edition, 1959 (confirmed). A summary of 200 the world's most famous operas. With indexes of ".plots and characters, the composers and librettists of operas both familiar and obscure, classical and modern, European and American." --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on burgundy spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 388 titles in ML catalog. ML #302.1. --- With dulling to spine titling and very slight soiling to cloth, else a tightly-bound, clean copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.95) with rubbing and small tears to edges but remaining bright and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxxi, 572, (4, ads) pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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