Author: GILBERT, W.S.
Title: The Story of Mikado
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Alice B. Woodward. Small 4to. Blue cloth with yellow lettering and front board pictorial stamping. xi, 115pp. Color frontispiece, 5 full-page color plates, numerous line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Internally tight and fine, with only faint mild wear to binding. Daniel O'Connor published the first edition in London in 1921 (pictorial yellow cloth with dust jacket), while Knopf published the first American edition that same year. Offered here is a later printing of this U.S. edition, undated but likely of 1930s vintage. Gilbert's popular libretto to the 1885 comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan has been put in prose in this "Told By" rendition published a decade after Gilbert's death. This copy bears a choice and relevant autograph addition: In 1939 a full-length British musical comedy film version was released, and tipped to an inner flyleaf is a fine, heavy stock 5" X 7" black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of one of its stars. Popular singer and actor KENNY BAKER (1912-85) portrays Nanki-Poo, son of the Japanese emperor (the Mikado), who is ordered to marry Katisha but loves Yum-Yum. This early glamour portrait shows a dashing young Baker in tuxedo as he appeared in the 1930s, boldly inscribed and signed "Sincerely / Kenny Baker" across the white of his shirt and white lapel flower (though dark coat obscures a couple letters). A delightfully unusual copy. .
Keywords: British Literature
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Title: The Story of Mikado
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Alice B. Woodward. Small 4to. Blue cloth with yellow lettering and front board pictorial stamping. xi, 115pp. Color frontispiece, 5 full-page color plates, numerous line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Internally tight and fine, with only faint mild wear to binding. Daniel O'Connor published the first edition in London in 1921 (pictorial yellow cloth with dust jacket), while Knopf published the first American edition that same year. Offered here is a later printing of this U.S. edition, undated but likely of 1930s vintage. Gilbert's popular libretto to the 1885 comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan has been put in prose in this "Told By" rendition published a decade after Gilbert's death. This copy bears a choice and relevant autograph addition: In 1939 a full-length British musical comedy film version was released, and tipped to an inner flyleaf is a fine, heavy stock 5" X 7" black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of one of its stars. Popular singer and actor KENNY BAKER (1912-85) portrays Nanki-Poo, son of the Japanese emperor (the Mikado), who is ordered to marry Katisha but loves Yum-Yum. This early glamour portrait shows a dashing young Baker in tuxedo as he appeared in the 1930s, boldly inscribed and signed "Sincerely / Kenny Baker" across the white of his shirt and white lapel flower (though dark coat obscures a couple letters). A delightfully unusual copy. .
Keywords: British Literature
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50190
- Book number: 50190
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