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By: Ewen, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10542
Condition: Near Fine
Very light wear to the boards. The dust jacket shows some dampstaining along the spine, but the book is unaffected. 297 pages with Index and the following Appendixes: 1. A Chronology of the European Theater, 2. Listing by Composers, and 3. Selected Recordings. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs. Contents include plots, composers, production histories, musical highlights, and critical evaluations of 167 European light operas. View more info
By: Hutcheon, Linda & Michael Hutcheon
Price: $12.00
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 08423
ISBN: 0803223676
Condition: Very Good
Boards lightly bumped, rubbing to dust jacket rear panel. Clean. 294 pages with Notes and Index. Illustrated. From the jacket: ""This fascinating book looks at well-known operas in which love, sexual desire, illness, and death are inextricably linked. The result is an unprecedented view of the operas themselves and the societies in which they were created." "The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with female s... View more info
By: Newman, Ernest
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1959
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 10541
Condition: Very Good
Mild wear to the book. Clean without writing or marks. The dust jacket is price-clipped, but has a price stamped next to the clipped portion of the front flap. The jacket also has a few edge tears and chips and is protected now in Mylar sleeve. 724 pages with more than 550 musical examples. "The Definitive treatment of the stories, texts, and music of Wagner's ten most important operas and music dramas." View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, John Calder: 1956
Seller ID: 05042
Condition: Good+
Red cloth with gilt title to spine. Bookplate on front pastedown, previous owner inscription on front free endpaper: London June 22, 1959. Some evidence of old tape marks on the boards where jacket was adhered. Page 9 has a correction in red ink from the previous owner about the nationality of Galli-Curci ("Not Spanish" he writes). He has also used the same red ink to mark off the chapters in the Table of Contents. The jacket suffers from the same tape marks around the edges and is also chipped and soiled. 103 pages with many photographs in black & white including the frontispiece of M... View more info
By: Verdi, Giuseppe
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston, Oliver Ditson Company: 1885
Seller ID: 10289
Condition: Fair
6 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. Edge wear and chipping (large chip lower corner, front cover), and a sharp, vertical crease to the entire booklet, with associated tears at the bottom of the front cover and top of the title page. Spine ends are splitting. 29-page, stapled libretto, a bit fragile, but holding together fine with gentle turning of the pages. Tuesday, November 3rd performance credits pasted onto the top of page 3. This date and the listing in the back of the publisher's ads for college songs of the 1880s traces the year of this libretto to 1885, the only year of the decade in which November 3r... View more info
