Opera Offstage: Passion and Politics Behind the Great Operas
New York: Walker, 1996. First edition. Boards. 8vo,240 pp. Edges of boards sunned, ink marks to a few pages, light edgewear to jacket.
New York: Walker, 1996. First edition. Boards. 8vo,240 pp. Edges of boards sunned, ink marks to a few pages, light edgewear to jacket.
Berkeley: University of California, 1955. Wraps. 8vo, 65 pp. Wrappers and page edges a bit sunned. '.
Denver: Big Mountain, 1956. Stapled Wraps. 8vo, 20 pp., illus., musical examples. Spine scuffed, extremities lightly bumped, light handling and edgewear to wrappers.
Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1995. Reprint. Trade paperback. 8vo. 504pp.Illus. b&w. Trade paperback.Bibliography, Index. Fine.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1989. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 586 pp. Head of spine lightly bumped.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. First edition. Boards. Tall 8vo, 366 pp., illus. Spine slightly cocked, pulled at crown, bumped at heel; corners of boards bumped, page edges tanned, bottom edge remainder marked (stipple). Jacket priceclipped, worn, sunned, lightly soiled, chipped and torn.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. First edition. Boards. 4to, 266 pp., b/w plates. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lighlty bumped, price sticker and previous owner blind stamp on front free endpaper, light edgewear to jacket.
Staplebound wraps. Offprint from Texas Studies in Literature and Language: A Journal of the Humanities, Vol. VII, No. 3, Fall 1966, pp. [423]-445. Inscribed by signed ("BC") by author. Spine and corners bumped; wrappers edgeworn, sunned, lightly soiled and stained.
London: Essex Music Co., 1965. Wraps. 8vo, 213 pp. Wrappers faded, edgeworn, nick at head of spine, corners bumped.
New York: Norton, 1973. Second printing. Wraps. Norton Critical Scores. 8vo, 99 pp. Heel of spine bumped, wrappers a bit handled and edgeworn, previous owner name.
Oxford University Press, 2006. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 265 pp.,illus., musical examples. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, light edgewear to jacket.
New York: Rizzoli, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Book is in a protective acetate jacket. A study of the contradictory imagery of the "real" Beethoven of the contemporary and posthumous accounts in some 200 illustrations of paintings, sculptures, prints, and verbal accounts. 480pp., Illus., Notes, Index.
New York: Simon & Schuster. Later printing. Wraps. 8vo, 186 pp. Spine creased, wrappers sunned with number in ink on front, pages tanned throughout.
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Second printing. Cloth. 8vo, 483 pp. Previous owner name, ink marks on one page only. Jacket priceclipped, rubbed and edgeworn.
M&B, 1996. Jensen, Vibeke (Fotografie). First edition. Wraps. Small 4to, 117 pp., b/w photographs. Includes CD. Very light edgewear to wrappers only.
New York: C. F. Peters, 1974. Staplebound wraps. Large oblong 4to, 24 pp. Sheet music, facsimile printing of the composer's MS. Spine and corners bumped, wrappers sunned and a bit soiled; interior Fine.
Rizzoli, 1994. Cloth. Folio, 267 pp., full-page photos throughout including a few in color. Text in Italian. Previous owner blind stamp. Jacket has some edgewear and light rippling, dampstain visible at interior only and not affecting boards.
New York: Schirmer, 1951. Cloth. 8vo, 402 pp. Boards lightly rubbed, pages tanned, previous owner name.
Scarsdale: E. F. Kalmus, n.d. Stapled Wraps. Kalmus Miniature Orchestra Scores No. 17. 8vo, 31 pp. Head and heel of spine and corners bumped, wrappers and page edges sunned.
Paris: Librairie Jose Corti, 1942. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. 194pp. Pages uncut. 79 unedited letters to Robert Godet ,a minor composer best known for his friendship with Claude Debussy, which began in 1888 and lasted until the composer's death and G. Jean-Aubry, a friend of several composers, including Debussy and.....
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1979. Cloth. 8vo, 316 pp. Previous owner name on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked.
New York: David McKay, 1951. Third printing. Hardcover. 8vo, 322 pp. Signed by the author. Popular radio singer's autobiography. Edges of boards and page edges dusty, head of spine slightly pulled, page edges tanned. Some chipping to jacket.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 4 pp., illus. Inscribed and signed by author. Head and heel of spine bumped, page edges tanned and a bit dusty, previous owner address label and blind stamp, faint smudge to rear pastedown. Fragment only of jacket is laid.....
MIT Press, 1979. Cloth. 4to, 244 pp. Inscribed and signed by author. Covers unevenly faded, light soiling to page edges, previous owner name stamp, light scattered pencil marks in text.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1955, 1959. Boards. 8vo, 566 pp., 594 pp. Both volumes pulled at crown, with light wear at heel of corners of boards, previous owner name, otherwise unmarked. Concert Music volume: page edges tanned, a couple of pages bumped at fore-edge, several page corners turned. Opera.....