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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
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
190027949London: Published by Arrangement with Chappell & Co. by The Alston Rivers Company PN 18311 1900. Quarto. Original publisher's red cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 1f. recto title verso copyright 1f. recto cast list verso contents v-xii overture 3-129 v publisher's advertisements pp.<br/><br/>Binding somewhat worn rubbed bumped soiled and shaken; hinges splitting. Published by Arrangement with Chappell & Co... by The Alston Rivers Company [PN 18311] unknown books
23819Bust-length. Bruno of Hollywood New York. Ca. 253 x 203 mm. <br/><br/>Slightly worn and creased; file holes to left margin; minor tears and loss to lower right margin; light ink spattering within and below signature not affecting legibility. Belgian soprano Lily Djanel garnered acclaim for her portrayals of Salome Sieglinde Santuzza Tosca and especially Carmen. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Bizet's heroine on January 24 1942. During the next five seasons there she would sing Carmen at least 35 times. unknown books
29544Folio. Quarter black morocco with maroon pebbled cloth boards titling and composer's name gilt to upper. 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto cast list verso blank 312 i blank pp. including occasional blank leaves. With "Rhodope" at head of cast list and prelude.<br/><br/>The work consists of a prelude; Act 1 in 10 scenes; Act II in 8 scenes; a ballet; and Act III in 9 scenes.<br/><br/>Characters in the opera include Amasis King of Egypt Béréel his servant Hemblond a steward at the palace Ali guardian of the Temple of Venus Rhodope a courtesan Nofré her servant the Pharoah and various additional servants courtesans etc.<br/><br/>Characters in the ballet include Reine Beauté Le Prince charmant Le Reine des Joies La Reine des Douleurs Les Caprices Les Illusions Les Rêves les Joies Les Désenchantements and Les Wresses. <br/><br/>The action takes place in Memphis Egypt ancient capital of Aneb-Hetch the original name of Lower Egypt in 500 B.C.<br/><br/>With notation in black; part identifications performance notes and occasional notation in red; and text in green ink. With descriptions of each act and the ballet preceding music.<br/><br/>Binding worn rubbed and bumped; cloth to lower stained and abraided at upper portion. Some leaves very slightly trimmed at upper and outer edges often affecting pagination but just occasionally very slightly touching text; name preceding Durey's name on title erased. An unpublished and unrecorded opera.<br/><br/>Lovreglio was a composer conductor and musicologist. Born in Naples grandson of the flautist and composer Donato Lovreglio 1841-1907 he died in Nice. Lovreglio played the violin at La Scala under Toscanini from 1917-1919 at which time he emigrated to France teaching at the Collège Parc Impérial in Nice from 1940-1945; among his students was the Armenian composer Levon Arami Astvatsatrian born 1922. He wrote two operas three ballets stage music two masses and symphonic and chamber music. <br/><br/>The present work is not included in Lovreglio's works list in Wikipedia. <br/><br/>There is a center named for him in Celano the Centro Europeo di Studi Musicali "Eleuterio Lovreglio. unknown books
5937410 July 1970 from his estate in Hampshire to Craig Schermer in Cleveland Ohio. Romsey Hampshire 1970. 8vo. Two pages approximately 125 words in part: "To our surprise and disappointment the only letter we can trace from the Empress Alexandra to my mother is one written in 1884 as a schoolgirl and one or two written to me when I was a young child. These contain nothing of any interest . Some of our papers are still in the Hessian Grand Ducal Archives"; accompanied by the original envelope stamp scavenged. Mountbatten served as the Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia during the last years of World War II and oversaw the independence and partitioning of India and Pakistan. Very good. Folded. #6400. <br/><br/> unknown books
1956M6935New Haven:: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press 1956. 1956. Series: Yale University Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. Second printing. 240 x 164 mm. 8vo. xi 369 pp. 145 figs. bibliog. index. Blue cloth gilt spine dust-jacket; jacket spine faded else very good. SCARCE IN JACKET. Ragnar Granit's researches have done much to elucidate the mechanism of visual processes. In 1967 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Haldon Keffer Hartline 1903-1983 and George Wald b. 1906 "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye." Wasson Nobel Prize winners p. 396. See: Garrison and Morton 1534. Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, (1956). hardcover 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
18691322308London: Strahan & Co 1869. 2nd edition. Hardcover. 12mo; 2nd edition; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine tanned with gold print; Boards in purple debossed cloth peripheral tanning and tanning to spine wear to corners and spine caps mild shelfwear; Text block has owner label and name in pencil on front pastedown spotting to endpapers cracked hinges front and rear intermittent spine breaks light amount of pencil annotation final pages advertisement are uncut and torn horizontally in center; ix 200 pages frontispiece folded illustrated b&w drawings. 1322308. FP New Rockville Stock. Strahan & Co hardcover books
19651328741New York: Augustus M. Kelley 1965. Hardcover. Octavo; Original edition 1937 Reprinted 1965; VG-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine tanned print not readable; DJ has mild edgewear toning to spine peripheral tanning small hole on front; Boards in brown cloth with gold print on a green banner slight wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block has slight tanning to endpapers but is clean and tight; xii 426 pages. 1328741. FP New Rockville Stock. Augustus M. Kelley hardcover books
190136336Boston Mass: Privately Printed by the Stanhope Press 1901. 1st printing. Original green cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping to front board. TEG. Original onionskin wrapper. Original white box. An As New copy in a Very Good box and uncommon thus. xii 2 blank 131 3 blank pp. Unopened. Illustrated with special drawings on inserted plates by William F. Kingman and Sears Gallager 1865 - 1955. 8vo. <br/><br/> Privately Printed [by the Stanhope Press] hardcover books
48849London: George Routledge & Sons Limited n. d. Ca early 20th C. Green cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Average wear. Pencil pos to ffep. Faint foxing to eps. Very Good. 246 pp. 16mo. <br/><br/> George Routledge & Sons, Limited hardcover books
1991PW1616Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1991. 1991. 8vo. xv 1 182 pp. Figs. index. Black gilt-stamped cloth dust jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0521400775 Rivers was a British officer and an early anthropologist. His collection of over 22000 artifacts was the basis for the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Cambridge University Press, 1991. hardcover books
23822Full-length portrait in formal attire. Ray Lee Jackson NBC Studio. Ca. 254 x 205 mm. Handstamps with photographer's name and job and negative numbers to verso.<br/><br/>Creased and bumped at corners; minor soiling and wear; pencil annotation to verso. Jessica Dragonette was a popular American singer and radio personality. During her 22-year radio career "The Princess of Song" as the media nicknamed her helped popularize operetta and semi-classical music. She is especially remembered as the star of the Cities Service Concerts program which she joined in 1930 and her many charitable performances for the U.S. armed forces during World War II. unknown books
23791Three-quarter-length portrait in black dress. From the studios of Ray Lee Jackson New York. 255 x 203 mm. <br/><br/>Slightly worn; several pinholes to corners; small tear to lower edge; minor staining to verso; signature partially obscured by its placement on the dark background of the soprano's dress. Italian soprano Gina Cigna made her debut at La Scala in 1926. In 1929 she "returned there and sang every season until 1943 establishing herself as a leading Italian dramatic soprano. She was particularly admired as Norma La Gioconda Turandot and in Verdi; she also took part in important revivals of Alceste 1935 and L'incoronazione di Poppea 1937 at Florence and was the KostelniÄka in the first performance in Italy of Jenůfa 1941 Venice. Cigna made her Covent Garden début as Marguerite in La damnation de Faust in 1933 and returned there in 1936 1937 and 1939. She sang at the Metropolitan 1937-8 and also in San Francisco and Chicago. In 1947 following a car accident she retired devoting much of the rest of her life to teaching." She was a highly dramatic and musical singer with a dark voice and an attractive rapid vibrato. "Her pre-war recordings of Norma and Turandot show the physical excitement of her singing and her dramatic involvement." Harold Rosenthal and Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. unknown books
186762744New York NY: Charles Magnus 12 Frankfort St 1867. A collection of 360 images including several numbered sets. The majority approx. 280 are printed in bronze or sepia ink plus approx. 73 hand or stencil colored and 7 in green ink. All are printed on individual envelope-sized sheets most 3 x 5 1/2 in. but none are full envelopes. The majority are blank on verso and show no signs of mounting some few are backed with blue yellow or pink paper sheets trimmed to fit. All but a dozen or so bear the imprint of "Chas. Magnus 12 Frankfort St. NY." At least one has a Sachse imprint the other handful without imprint are all in the style of Magnus. All are in very good condition. <br/>The several sets include: 1 36 images in bronze ink not consecutively numbered of military hospitals encampments and batteries; 2 12 numbered images in bronze ink of various Civil War battles; 3 12 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Movement of the Army from Washington to Richmond" caption title; 4 11 of 12 numbered images in bronze ink lacking #9 of the "Battle of Gettysburg Pa. July 3 1863" caption title; 5 3 numbered images in bronze ink "Long Bridge Washington By Moonlight" caption title plus copies of two hand or stencil colored; 6 5 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Battle of Winchester under Gen. Shields" cation title; 7 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Siege and Capture of Fort Donelson" caption title plus copies of 8 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 8 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Camp Scene from Photograph" caption title plus copies of 7 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 9 12 unnumbered images of Maj. Gen. McClellan and his Generals in bronze ink; 10 two unnumbered sets of 12 each in bronze ink of various Generals portraits over a banner "The Union Must and Shall be Preserved" and accompanied by a full battle map of the U.S.; 11 10 unnumbered images in bronze ink of various Generals portraits each inset on a battle map plus copies of all 10 hand or stencil colored; 12 4 numbered images in bronze ink "Battle of New Bern NC" caption title.<br/>Additional images depict various Union Generals singly or in groups; the Battle of Bull Run; McClellan's Advance on Richmond; the Engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac; etc. many with caption titles. Charles Magnus a German immigrant was a prolific publisher of lithographed material in New York City including maps and city views and during the Civil War pro- Union patriotic covers stationery and songsheets. He experimented with various colors of ink including the bronze and sepia colors represented in this group and was known for the quality of his printing techniques. <br/><br/> Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St unknown books
188127924London: Chappell 1881. Quarto. Plain light tan wrappers. 1f. recto title verso cast list and contents 3-117 iii publisher's advertisements pp.<br/><br/>Small composer's facsimile signature handstamp to title.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; partially disbound. Title somewhat worn and with former owner's name in pencil; occasional minor tears to edges not affecting music. Chappell unknown books
184647675Oxford: Printed for J. H. Parker J. Vincent and H. Slater / T. MacPherson 1846. 1st Edition / Second Edition. Period maroon half-calf binding with marbled boards & eps "Vol I" stamped to 4th compartment. Red edgestain. Modest wear to binding. Spine a bit sunned. Bookplate of Robert Holdsworth Carew Hunt. Table of Contents with some contributions credited by a prior owner. Very Good. 371 1 blank; 62 pp. Frontispiece to Petra. 12mo. <br/><br/> Printed for J. H. Parker, J. Vincent, and H. Slater / T. MacPherson hardcover books
194134941New York: Whittlesey House 1941. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Full white cloth. 305 pp. Manuscript annotations to front and rear free endpapers. Endpapers browned. Outer edges browned. In worn dustjacket. Whittlesey House hardcover books
195131366London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1951. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. NF/VG chip from top of spine panel/pc. 336 pp adverts at rear. 8vo. <br/><br/> George Allen & Unwin Ltd hardcover books
193235504Wien: Universal Edition U.E. 10.374 1932. Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 42 pp.<br/><br/>From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman with his signature to upper.<br/><br/>Lower wrapper lacking; upper soiled and nearly detached. Light soiling to corners and last page. First Edition likely later issue. Universal Edition [U.E. 10.374] unknown books
189728897Praze Prague: Fr. A. Urbáneck PN U.998. 1897. Small folio. Black-cloth backed black textured paper boards. 1f. recto fine decorative polychrome lithographic title verso blank 3 cast list 4-179 pp.<br/><br/>Binding quite worn; tears to spine. Lower outer corners soiled; signatures split; previous owner's signature to upper outer margin of title. First Edition. <br/><br/>"After Smetana and Dvořák Fibich was the most prominent Czech composer of the second half of the 19th century notably of operas and orchestral and piano music. His concert and stage melodramas were some of the most ambitious and effective ever written and prompted other Czech composers to write in the same genre thus creating a sizable and unique repertory for Czech music." John Tyrrell and Judith A. Mabary in Grove Music Online. Fr. A. Urbáneck [PN U.998.] unknown books
189528895Praha: Fr. A. Urbánek PN U.874 1895. Small folio. Half dark blue leather with textured paper boards. 1f. recto title verso blank 3 cast list. 4-217 pp. Text in Czech and German. <br/><br/>Binding slightly worn and rubbed; labels to front pastedown. Minor thumbing to lower right corners of first approximately 30 pp.; some markings to title in black and purple ink; minor repair to final leaf; small oval ownership stamp of V. Plzni to a number of pages including title. First Edition. <br/><br/>"After Smetana and Dvořák Fibich was the most prominent Czech composer of the second half of the 19th century notably of operas and orchestral and piano music. His concert and stage melodramas were some of the most ambitious and effective ever written and prompted other Czech composers to write in the same genre thus creating a sizable and unique repertory for Czech music." John Tyrrell and Judith A. Mabary in Grove Music Online. Fr. A. Urbánek [PN U.874] unknown books
196035505Kassel: Bärenreiter 1960. Paperback. Very Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. 2ff. 83 pp.<br/><br/>Taschenpartituren 110.<br/><br/>Slight damage to lower from previous price sticker. Very slight browning to edges. Out of print. Now rental only. Bärenreiter paperback books
19005747Boston: Noyes Platt & Company 1900. Hardcover. VG. Red cloth. 110 48 pp. 48 bw plates. Includes biographical paragraphs on every American artist who was represented at the 1900 Exposition. Lists 255 paintings 160 drawings and illustrations 41 miniatures 69 works of sculpture 56 architecture entries and 3 mural decorations. Quite rare. Noyes, Platt & Company hardcover books
