Author: LA PRADE, ERNEST
Title: Alice in Orchestralia
Description: New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Carroll C. Snell. B&W Illustrations; Originally published in Great Britain as Alice in Orchestra Land. This book is in Very Good+ condition. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light toning / darkening to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's notation on the front endpaper in pencil. This book includes an illustrated frontispiece and interior illustrations by Carrol C. Snell. German born, American conductor and composer Walter Damrosch has written the foreword. "Alice in Orchestralia is but another Alice in Wonderland, for the author takes us in delightful fashion into the heart of that most wondrous land of all - the land of music. Alice is to be envied, for there is hardly anything about a modern symphony orchestra - its make-up, its functions, its manner of speaking that universal language of human emotions - that she does not learn in such a beguiling way that one might swear that it had been written by the whimsical and immortal author of the original Alice in Wonderland." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Young Adult Fiction Ernest La Prade Carrol C. Snell Walter Damrosch Orchestras Music Musical Instruments Young Adult Fiction
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Title: Alice in Orchestralia
Description: New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Carroll C. Snell. B&W Illustrations; Originally published in Great Britain as Alice in Orchestra Land. This book is in Very Good+ condition. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light toning / darkening to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's notation on the front endpaper in pencil. This book includes an illustrated frontispiece and interior illustrations by Carrol C. Snell. German born, American conductor and composer Walter Damrosch has written the foreword. "Alice in Orchestralia is but another Alice in Wonderland, for the author takes us in delightful fashion into the heart of that most wondrous land of all - the land of music. Alice is to be envied, for there is hardly anything about a modern symphony orchestra - its make-up, its functions, its manner of speaking that universal language of human emotions - that she does not learn in such a beguiling way that one might swear that it had been written by the whimsical and immortal author of the original Alice in Wonderland." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Young Adult Fiction Ernest La Prade Carrol C. Snell Walter Damrosch Orchestras Music Musical Instruments Young Adult Fiction
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 47254
- Book number: 47254
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