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195327904New York: G. Schirmer PN 42202 1953. Octavo. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. i title i blank i dramatis personae i story 1 musical numbers 2 blank 3-220 pp.<br/><br/>Titling in ink to spine. G. Schirmer [PN 42202] unknown books
191127903London: Chappell PN 18311 1911. Quarto. Original publisher's light gray decorative wrappers printed in dark blue. i title i blank i dramatis personae i contents 141 i publisher's advertisement pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat worn; small tears to head and tail of spine. Chappell [PN 18311] unknown books
195627923London: Chappell PN 18844 1956. Quarto. Original publisher's decorative yellow wrappers. 1f. recto title verso copyright 1f. recto cast list verso contents 225 iii blank pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn. Chappell [PN 18844] unknown books
193027919Philadelphia: John Church PN Gon. 223 1930. Folio. Original publisher's brown cloth-backed decorative wrappers. 1 title 2 blank 3 dramatis personae 4 contents 5-225 iii blank pp.<br/><br/>Occasional performance annotations in pencil.<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat worn and soiled; head and tail of spine slightly defective; previous owner's name and annotations to upper. Some minor internal wear; inner margin of title tight to wrapper. The Gondoliers was "the last great Gilbert and Sullivan success." Arthur Jacobs in Grove Music Online. John Church [PN Gon. 223] unknown books
188027918London: Chappell PN 16997 1880. Quarto. Original publisher's textured brown cloth boards stamped in black titling gilt to upper. i title ii blank iii dedication iv blank v index vi blank vii-x 215 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Small composer's facsimile signature handstamp to title.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed bumped and shaken; previous owner's signature "WSA Griffith" to front free endpaper. Some internal wear; annotations to title. First Edition.<br/><br/>Composed for and first performed at the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival October 15 1880.<br/><br/>"A mark of esteem was Sullivan's appointment as conductor of the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival from 1880: he launched there his new oratorio 'sacred music drama' The Martyr of Antioch in that year." Arthur Jacobs in Grove Music Online. Chappell [PN 16997] unknown books
189028032New York: Wm. A. Pond PN 2898 1890. Quarto. 1f. recto title verso cast list 3 contents 4-152 pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers lacking. Worn; occasional minor edge tears. A re-issue. Wm. A. Pond [PN 2898] unknown books
189028033New York: Wm. A. Pond PN 13809 1890. Quarto. Original publisher's decorative wrappers. 1 title 2 cast list 3 contents 4-172 pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers worn; upper detached with minor chips and tears to edges; lower partially detached; spine worn and lacking at head and tail. Revised version. Wm. A. Pond [PN 13809] unknown books
199027969New York/London: G. Schirmer PN 38710 1990. Large octavo. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. 1f. title 2ff. cast list argument musical numbers 213 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Small handstamp with new price to upper wrapper; titling to spine in ink. G. Schirmer [PN 38710] unknown books
189027921New York: Hitchcock 1890. Quarto. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 1f. recto title verso cast list and contents 3-141 iii blank pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers worn and chipped; minor loss to tail of spine. Slightly browned and chipped. Hitchcock unknown books
191127901London: Chappell PN 18577 1911. Large octavo. Original publisher's light gray wrappers printed in dark blue. i title ii blank iii dramatis personae iv contents 184 ii blank pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat worn minor damage to upper. Slightly worn. Chappell [PN 18577] unknown books
189027965Boston: Oliver Ditson 1890. Octavo. Original publisher's decorative wrappers. 1f. title 1f. cast list 78 pp. <br/><br/>Occasional performance annotations in pencil and red crayon.<br/><br/>Wrappesr somewhat worn and chipped; spine defective. Title detached and slightly stained and chipped; former owner's signature to two leaves in ink; small mark from paper clip to two leaves. Oliver Ditson unknown books
194127966New York: G. Schirmer PN 39209 1941. Octavo. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. 1f. title 1f. recto cast list verso argument 1f. recto musical numbers verso blank 89 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; small cataloguing label to spine and wrappers; small library handstamp to wrappers. Small library handstamp to title and final leaf. G. Schirmer [PN 39209] unknown books
23956Signed by the photographer Herbert Mitchell in white ink at lower left. Ca. 251 x 202 mm.<br/><br/>Slightly worn and soiled. American contralto Gladys Swarthout "studied singing in Chicago making her operatic début there in 1924 as the Shepherd-boy in Tosca; the following year she sang Carmen at Ravinia. Her début role at the Metropolitan was La Cieca La Gioconda 1929; she performed there regularly until 1945 as Siébel Preziosilla Adalgisa and - her most famous roles - Mignon and Carmen. She also sang in the première of Hanson's Merry Mount 1934. After 1954 she retired to Florence." Swarthout had a "fine well-placed voice" and a beautiful but placid stage presence. She starred in five films for Paramount Pictures. Max de Schauensee in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Mitchell 1898-1980 was a noted photographer of theatrical celebrities in the 1930s with a studio on Broadway in New York City. unknown books
23955Ca. 251 x 203 mm. <br/><br/>Slightly worn and soiled; several small holes to margins. American contralto Gladys Swarthout "studied singing in Chicago making her operatic début there in 1924 as the Shepherd-boy in Tosca; the following year she sang Carmen at Ravinia. Her début role at the Metropolitan was La Cieca La Gioconda 1929; she performed there regularly until 1945 as Siébel Preziosilla Adalgisa and - her most famous roles - Mignon and Carmen. She also sang in the première of Hanson's Merry Mount 1934. After 1954 she retired to Florence." Swarthout had a "fine well-placed voice" and a beautiful but placid stage presence.She starred in five films for Paramount pictures. Max de Schauensee in Grove Music Online. unknown books
19242477Prague. Aventina. 1924. 8vo. Rose colored decorative wrappers. In good condition. A study of the writer journalist Frantisek Kupka Prague1894-1969 on soviet poetry . Type and cover design by Teige and Otakar Mrkvicka 1899-1957. Small repairs at the top and bottom of the spine slight fading on spine. Some annotations on separate inserted pages. Aventina books
19781328949Mattituck: Aeonian Press 1978. Hardcover. Octavo; ©1932 republished 1978; Limited edition 300 copies; VG-; Hardcover; Spine blue with gold print; Boards in blue cloth slight blemish on front stray mark to rear bottom corner else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; xi 390 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w. 1328949. FP New Rockville Stock. Aeonian Press hardcover books
19502607621950. unbound. 7 x 5-inch black-and-white close-up photo of the American actor looking to the side -- no place no date circa 1950. Signed in the lower right corner: "Sincerely Spencer Tracy." Float-mounted matted in off-white and set in a black and gold frame measuring 12.75 x 11 inches. Near fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
17521This highly-regarded versatile and prolific leading man -- considered by many one of the greatest actors ever -- won an Oscar for "Captains Courageous" 1937 and "Boy's Town" 1938. IPS 8" X 10" n.p. n.d. Very good. Slightest of edgewear with faint tape stain at each corner. Handsome studio portrait taken for "The Mountain" costarring Robert Wagner and Claire Trevor showing a benevolent older Tracy in sportscoat and ascot boldly inscribed in black ballpoint in a light portion at the upper left "To Donald / best wishes / Spencer Tracy / 7/14/61." A lovely example. unknown books
19882492661988. unbound. 1 page 4.25 x 6 inches July 4 1988. Signed "Frere Venzo" by the Jesuit painter on verso of a postcard of his painting "Giugno cui colli Berichi." In part: ".Je vous envoie avec mes exuses pour le retour la foto e la cart que vous m'avez." Includes a copied photo of Venzo and a fragment of the original airmail envelope in which it was sent. Very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
19632742741963. unbound. 2 pages front and back 11.25 x 7 inches November 24 1963 concurring that a promotion was justified. Also signed by Alexei A. Epishev Chief of the Main Political Directorate who had previously taken into consideration one year earlier that the perspective candidate be considered for promotion. Very good condition.<br/><br/> Commander in Chief of the Soviet Air Forces and founder of the Cosmonaut Space Program. As a close friend of Yuri Gagarin he contributed extensively to the training program which culminated in the first successful walk in space.<br/><br/> unknown books
1870138661870. Watercolor on board. 1 vols. Image approx. 13 x 17-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 20 x 24 inches overall. Fine condition. Vient Gustave. Watercolor on board. 1 vols. Image approx. 13 x 17-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 20 x 24 inches overall. Fine Original Franco-Prussian War Battle Scene by Vient. On the nearly barren landscape row after row of foot-soldiers march along the horizon at left. The focal point of the drawing is the artillery a few soldiers on horseback and several horses pulling and three soldiers pushing a cannon. Another group of soldiers on horseback appear at right. They all appear to be rushing towards the battlefield which is visible in the distance with clouds of smoke from fired weapons.<br/><br/><br/><br/>A dashing depiction by the French painter who specialized in landscapes and fans. Vient exhibited at the Salon of 1878-1881. unknown books
18972797941897. unbound. very good. Exceedingly rare signature "R.B. Wallace -- 1st Lt. U.S. Cav." 1.25 x 3.25 inches written on a portion of a cover of the Journal of the United States Army dated March 1897. Accompanied by impeccable provenance -- an attached note three weeks after his death that reads: "My brother died at Fort Huachoca March 13 1900 and never saw your letter. I enclose an autograph signature of his -- Co. W.W. -- 4/4/1900." Bruce is rare in any format; very good condition.<br/><br/> United States Army officer who died of wounds received at Calicoon Philippine Islands while leading a charge on February 10 1899 of which he died March 13 1900. He participated in every engagement while assigned as 1st Lieutenant of the 37th Volunteer Montana -- 2nd Cavalry.<br/><br/> unknown books
028026London: Gilbert and Rivington. Octavo and Folio. Volume I 373 pages; Volume II 478 pages index no dateca.1900 Volume III folio oversize was prepared by West Point's Department of Military Art and Engineering in 1942 by Colonel T.D. Stamps. with 125 full page maps each measuring approximately 13" x 8" or 13" x 16" for the larger maps. David Chandler considered this one of his major sources in his study of the Napoleonic Wars. The maps have been used by military history experts as well as those devoted to war games since they were issued forty years after the original volumes by Wartenburg. Bound in full modern leather trimmed in gilt and blind spine lettered and rule in gilt top edges gilt endpapers renewed. Gilbert and Rivington unknown books
193026824Wien: Universal-Edition A.G. PN U.E. 8206 1930. Folio. Original publisher's wrappers with a catalog of Weill's works to lower. i title i cast list instrumentation and copyright notice 3-51 i blank pp. Facsimile of copyist's manuscript.<br/><br/>Lower wrapper with printed note to foot: "No. 131/XII 1930."<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat soiled; spine slightly frayed. Somewhat browned. First Edition. OCLC no. 165418677.<br/><br/>"Weill was one of the outstanding composers in the generation that came to maturity after World War I and a key figure in the development of modern forms of musical theatre. His successful and innovatory work for Broadway during the 1940s was a development in more popular terms of the exploratory stage works that had made him the foremost avant-garde theatre composer of the Weimar Republic." David Drew and J. Bradford Robinson in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Der Jasager to a libretto by Bertolt Brecht after the Japanese noh play Taniko was first performed at the Zentralinstitut für Erziehung und Unterricht in Berlin on June 23 1930. "In its original form Der Jasager was one of Weill's most successful compositions in Germany receiving more than 300 performances before 1933." Stephen Hinton in Grove Music Online. Universal-Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 8206] unknown books
192936346Wien-Leipzig: Universal Edition A.G. PN U.E. 8851 1929. Quarto. Full dark blue cloth with titling gilt to spine original publisher's decorative upper wrapper printed in black white and red bound in. 1f. recto title verso copyright 1f. recto cast list verso contents 5-73 i blank pp. Text in German.<br/><br/>With handstamp of "Carl Kulm Musikalien Wien ." and "Musik Antiquariat Doblinger Wien" to lower portion of title and later signature of Frans Lasson to upper inner corner of free front endpaper. First Edition later issue including numbers 11a and 19a and with the Zuhälterballade Macheath Jenny printed as number 12 with two verses the first issue did not include the Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit. Fuld pp. 343-344. KWE I/5 pp. 53-54. Drew p. 197. <br/><br/>The most successful of Weill's collaborations with playwright Bertolt Brecht Die Dreigroschenoper adapted from Peter Gay's The Beggar's Opera London 1728 was first performed in Berlin on August 31 1928. It was quite successful on Broadway in the 1950s its signature tune being the immensely popular Mack the Knife. Universal Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 8851] unknown books
