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187033347Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch 1870. Octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory printed wrappers with titling within double-lined border. 1f. recto half-title verso blank 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. "Vorwort" 73 i blank pp. Colophon to verso of lower wrapper.<br/><br/>Wrappers worn slightly soiled and foxed; several small edge chips and tears; lower detached. Slightly worn; occasional foxing; margins slightly soiled and dampstained heavier to lower. First Edition. Kastner p. 76. Oesterlein I p. 6.<br/><br/>"In the essay Beethoven published in 1870 to coincide with the centenary celebrations of the composer Wagner completed a process of rapprochement initiated with 'Zukunftsmusik' ten years earlier between the aesthetics of Oper und Drama and those of Schopenhauer. In 'Zukunftsmusik' Wagner continued to elevate his own species of text-related musical discourse above pure instrumental music but the claim is modified by a reappraisal of the worth of symphonic music particularly that of Beethoven. In Beethoven he finally accepts that words and music cannot enjoy totally equal status: with Schopenhauer he maintains that music is the ultimate vehicle of expression." <br/><br/>" . Like all composers of his era Wagner grew up in the shadow of Beethoven and the Classical symphonic tradition. His obsession with Beethoven revealed both in the autobiographical writings and in fictional stories such as the novella Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven reflected a perceived need to confront that tradition acknowledging the legacy of Beethoven and at the same time staking a claim as his natural successor." Barry Millington John Deathridge Carl Dahlhaus and Robert Bailey in Grove Music Online. E.W. Fritzsch unknown books
1890182859München: Hanfstaengel 1890. Softcover. G some soiling on front cover back cover has fold and cracking. Pages are clean and tight. Great conditon considering age. Illustrated wraps with goild foil. 23 pages : 3 folded plans ; 19 cm atlas of 1 plate folded. Text in German. This is NOT the photography verson of a similarly named title. This was produced in parallel and contains folded plans and maps of city and area. Abgekürzte Beschreibung des Rundgemäldes von Prof. J. Bühlmann und Alex. von Wagner. Hanfstaengel unknown books
1889272886Berlin: Berlin Kunstdruck - und Verlags-Anstalt 1889. First. unbound. near fine. Carl Emil Doepler. Group of 39 of 40 total large plates showing costume designs for all the characters in Wagner's Ring by Carl Emil Doepler. Beautifully printed chromolithograph plates with excellent details 13-1/2" x 18" loose as issued and protected in a new gray cloth portfolio box with red leather spine label and the original title text mounted on front. Berlin: Berlin Kunstdruck- und Verlags-Anstalt Vormals A. & C. Kaufmann 1889. First edition. The 10 text pages are quite tattered at edges but the plates printed on heavier stock are all in excellent clean condition with only very minor wear at marginal edges or corners of 4 plates. Lacking plate 26: "Wotan als Wanderer" but otherwise a near fine copy of this very scarce and beautifully produced work - OCLC lists only 1 copy in the Netherlands and there is only 1 auction sale record from 1993.<br/><br/> Part I Das Rheingold: 1 Rheintochter. 2 Wotan. 3 Fricka und Freia. 4 Fasolt. 5 Fafner. 6 Donner. 7 Froh. 8 Loge. 9 Alberich. 10 & 11 Die Nibelungen. 12 Erda. Part II Die Walkure: 13 Siegmund. 14 Sieglinde. 15 Hunding. 16 Wotan. 17 Brunnhilde. 18 Waltraute. 19 Die Walkuren Grimgerde & Gerhilde & Siegrune. 20 Ortlinde. 21 Rossweisse. 22 Schwertleite. 23 Helmwige. Part III Siegfried: 24 Mime. 25 Siegfried. 26 Wotan LACKING. 27 Alberich. Part IV Gotterdammerung: 28 Die Nornen. 29 Brunhilde. 30 Siegfried. 31 Gunther. 32-35 Mannen Gunthers. 36 Barde und Kinder. 37 Knechte mit Jagdbeute. 38 Gutrune. 39 Frauen im Gefolge Gutrunes. 40 Hagen.<br/><br/> Berlin Kunstdruck - und Verlags-Anstalt unknown books
189744181London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1897. 5th edition. Olive green cloth binding with maroon lettering & front board graphic. Light wear. Bookplate. VG a nice copy. 8 127 1 pp. Post 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover books
18902304628Paris: Librairie Fischbacher 1890. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. bookplate of Rowland Hazard a member of a prominent Rhode Island family there were five Rowlands three of whom were alive when this book was printed on front paste-down endpaper pencil note on front free endpaper verso some pages very lightly foxed. 1890 Full-Leather. 288 pp. French text. Full morocco gilt titles and rules marbled endpapers. Kufferath's study of the musical drama by Richard Wagner which premiered in 1882. Librairie Fischbacher hardcover books
186918200Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber 1869. Cloth. Very Good. Following the 1850 original printing of Wagner's virulent attack on the influence of Judaism in music this is the 1869 correct 2nd edition published out of Leipzig and for the first time using Wagner's own name as author. Rebound in the mid-20th century in a light-blue cloth with dark leather title label at the spine. New front and rear endsheets as well. Happily though the complete book is bound-in including the original light-green wrappers which show minor soiling and creasing along the edges. The original text has held us very nicely as well; bright clean and eminently readable. Octavo 57 pgs. plus publisher's ad at the rear. <br/><br/> Verlagsbuchhandlung von J..J. Weber hardcover books
18719024620Weimar: Bernhard Friedrich Voigt. 1871. Paperback. Very good. Wrappers rebound in plain paper. Four folding charts showing manufacturing processes. In good condition but for some browning. Bookplate and library stamps. <br/><br/> Bernhard Friedrich Voigt. paperback books
1899010491Akron OH: Werner Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. A large volume with original pictorial boards. Image cropped due to scanner size. Black boards have rubbed and frayed corners and edges with light soil and scuffs. Spine pulling and loose at front hinge text block bound tight. All edges gilt. Endpapers have tape repairs creasing and chips. Corner piece missing from first free endpaper. Text pages have some soil including smudges on plate margins. The plates have the original tissue guards and the images are in very good condition. 43 chromo-lithograph plates xxii 23-241. The book is divided into Army and Navy sections with illustrations of scenes and especially uniforms from various periods. Appendices contain details on the recent Spanish-American War and lists of the Navy's vessels by category. ; Chromo-lithograph; 14" x 1 1/2" x 18"; 241 pp . Werner Company hardcover books
1899WRCAM31111Akron Oh.: The Werner Company 1899. 103pp. plus twenty-five chromolithographs. Oblong folio. Original pictorial cloth. Corners bumped cloth edgeworn and spotted. Hinges weak. Internally clean and fresh. Wagner's lavish work contains numerous large chromolithographs depicting the history of the army of the United States from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War with depictions of all. It also serves as a useful guide for identifying military dress throughout the first hundred years of the U.S. Army. The Werner Company of Akron Ohio was a leading innovator in new printing technology at the end of the century. According to McGrath the plates were created by combining the primary colors and sienna in careful mixtures allowing far fewer color stones than would have traditionally been used. "Not only are the plates technically interesting but three are from drawings by Henry Alexander Ogden" - McGrath. The result of this trichromatic chromolithographic technique while somewhat blotchy in appearance probably considerably lowered the cost of printing such a plate. Wagner's work was published in a one-volume edition which contained forty-two plates including seventeen of the U.S. Navy with accompanying text. It was also published in a two-volume set with one volume for the army as here and one for the navy. McGRATH pp.149 163 172. BENNETT p.109. The Werner Company hardcover books
189921376Akron: The Werner Company 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth decorated pictorially and in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 241 pages. Oblong folio 45 x 34 cm. 43 chromolithographs 25 Army and 18 Navy army and navy uniforms from the Revolution through the Spanish-American War with lettered tissue guards printed in red. Title page printed in red and black. Appendices include The Ships of the United States Navy by class some were wood gunboats. BENNETT p.109. Minor nicks to backstrip extremities a very fresh clean copy with beveled edges. The Werner Company hardcover books
1899208238Akron: Werner Company 1899. First. hardcover. very good-. Handsomely illustrated with 44 full-page color lithographs. 241pp. Oblong folio pictorial cloth; some areas of edges lightly worn back cover and first few page margins lightly soiled last two blank pages lightly dampstained rebacked in modern brown cloth front flyleaf lacking bottom right corner inner hinges strengthened. Akron: Werner Company 1899. First Edition.<br/><br/> Internally the plates and text are bright. Plates depict soldiers on horseback and on foot mostly in battle scenes.<br/><br/> Werner Company unknown books
18712499291871. unbound. 2 pages front and back 8.5 x 5.25 inches no place September 22 1871. Elegant letter signed "Cosima" by the daughter of Franz Liszt second wife of Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth Festival for 31 years. This letter thanks a friend for sending her clothing measurements and giving her carte blanche for both color and make of an item of clothing. She also writes that the children's maid has gone away leaving her to do the washing hairdressing clothing playing teaching running up and down stairs like a rat ".je lave je coiffe j'habille je joue j'enseigne je cours comme un rat a travers les escaliers.". She ends with a request for used foreign stamps for her daughter Loulou's collection. Natural folds; very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
1885221501San Francisco: Harr Wagner 1885. 588-640p. magazine about fifty pages of text printed double-column plus ads paper is partly of alkaline and partly of acidic stock; sewn textblock in 9.5x6 inch wraps. Original thread in good shape holding an intact textblock but both covers are detached fragile edgeworn and are scribbled-on by an untalented child; a previous owner not ourselves has attempted erasure. The acidic leaves are very fragile and chipped. Appears to be complete down to the ads a poor but honest copy. An early Harr Wagner effort; masthead states "thirty-third year" he must have bought into it. Ecclectic topics: a wood-engraved portrait of journalist G.A.H.Sala Early German Lit by a professor a grotesque mockery of wine-making in the California foothills use a dead body a fiction by Wagner called "Nun or Wife" an essay on "Work and Wages of Women in San Francisco" by one Alice Dennison. Harr Wagner unknown books
190037252San Francisco: The Whitaker & Ray Company 1900. 1st Edition. Greenish-tan flexible vinyl binding with black title lettering printed to front. Soiling to front and rear POS marginalia and underlinings in pencil throughout. A solid Good-plus copy. 68 pp including price lists and advertisements. Black and white woodcut portraits of historical figures as well as and maps and locations of import in California history. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> The Whitaker & Ray Company unknown books
189344505New York: Thomas Whittaker 1893. First edition 8vo pp. 287; lightly toned slightly cocked extremities worn upper cover spotted with some very small pinholes spine ends frayed otherwise good in original maroon cloth with gilt-lettered spine and upper cover decorated in blind. <br/><br/> Thomas Whittaker hardcover books
189557162Kansas City MO.: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. 1895. Fifth Edition. Signed presentation from Capt. R.W. Ropes to Lt. Frank S. Perkins on the front endpaper with stamped date of Nov. 9 1899. Both men were Company B Second Corps Cadets with the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Perkins was a commander of field artillery. With the tiny bookplate of Bent and Bush- a Boston-based military supply store on the front pastedown. 16mo. blue cloth stamped in gilt; 134 pages plus ads. Illustrated With Diagrams & Large Fold-Out Plate. Very Good covers bright with minor wear covers small repair to one plate with clear archival tape. Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. unknown books
1874WRCAM52928Saco Me.: William S. Noyes & Co. 1874. iv118025694066pp. Early 20th-century buckram gilt leather labels. Cloth somewhat soiled labels chipped front hinge loosening. Paper shelf label on spine institutional ink stamp on titlepage. Nine interior leaves detached and chipped. Moderate tanning. Good. A scarce trial account of an 1874 Maine island murder motivated by robbery and accomplished after a great feat of endurance. "Wagner believed that $600 was in the house of a family living on the Isle of Shoals a spot of land ten miles out to sea from Portsmouth New Hampshire. He rowed out there one night and killed two women with an ax a third escaping into the night to hide among the rocks. He was convicted and executed for the crime" - McDade. McDADE 1032. William S. Noyes & Co. hardcover books
1896UWAGPIL00LAWOpen Court Publishng Co. 1896. Very Good. Wagner Richard. A Pilgrimage to Beethoven: a novel or Essay on Beethoven. Chicago IL: Open Court Publishng Co. 1896. 39pp. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped corners and gently rubbed extremities. Contemporary owner's name penned on front pastedown and alternate title penned neatly on title page. Ex-libris Sam Weller. Open Court Publishng Co. unknown books
18701756Leipzig: Fritzsch 1870. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps sl. worn/stained on rear. A very nice copy. 73pp. of text in German. Centenary essay. Wagner uses Beethoven's music to justify Schopenhauer's claim that music by contrast to the other arts expresses the world's inner being. <br/><br/> Fritzsch paperback books
1887048005Leipzig: Breitkopf Und Härtel 1887. 2 vols. 298; 328p. original green decorative cloth with gilt trim and lettering. Contents: Bd. 1 Vom Jahre 1841 bis 1853. Bd. 2 Vom Jahre 1854 bis 1861. Breitkopf Und Härtel unknown books
18602384861860. Albumen print mounted on "Steinberg photographe" card. Image: 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. Some surface scuffs primarily at the right margin; very good. Albumen print mounted on "Steinberg photographe" card. Image: 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. unknown books
18521887Leipzig: Weber 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Cloth boards leather spine with raised bands. Gilt lettering on spine. New end papers Edges of spine & covers slightly rubbed. Otherwise a nice copy. <br/><br/> Weber hardcover books
1895112951Berlin: C. F. Meser 1895. Softbound. Very clean and tight interior but fading to covers. Paper wraps bound into black soft cloth binding; 171 pp. The complete parts for Tannhauser arranged for one piano two hands. C. F. Meser paperback books
1877746London: Schott's 1877. First English language edition. First trade edition and 1st combined edition in English translated by Alfred Forman of The Rhein-Gold The Walkyrie Siegfried and Dusk of the Gods preceded only by privately printed separate issues of the 4 individual parts 1873-1875 to secure copyright which had a total of just 238 pages. This is the complete librettos with 351 pages of snugly printed tiny type containing all the dialogue and stage directions for all 4 parts. <br/><br/>Half cloth marbled boards printed paper label. Near fine condition with the series half-title and title page as well as all 4 half-titles. Ex-Edw. Schuberth & Co. oval stamp to half-title. Schott's unknown books
187526101Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne PN 21500 1875. Folio. Contemporary dark brown tooled half calf with dark green cloth boards decorative initials "P.R." to upper gilt titling to spine in ruled compartments all edges gilt. 1f. general title "Der Ring des Nibelungen 1f. title 1f. half-title 1 cast list and contents 2-357 i blank pp. Lithographed throughout. <br/><br/>Cloth portion of binding slightly stained worn and frayed at edges light blue watered silk endpapers slightly soiled. Slightly foxed and browned. First Edition. Fuld p. 465. Deathridge Geck and Voss WWV p. 402. Klein p. 51. The general title and half title are common to the full scores of all four Ring operas.<br/><br/>Götterdämmerung is the fourth opera in the Ring cycle. Excerpts were first performed in a concert at the Musikverein in Vienna on March 25 1875; the entire work was first performed as part of the Ring cycle at Bayreuth on August 17 1876. <br/><br/>"The final opera of the Ring. provides an appropriately weighty conclusion to the epic cycle. 26 years elapsed from the time Wagner made his first prose draft for the work then called Siegfrieds Tod to the completion of the full score with inevitable consequences in terms of stylistic unity. Retrogressive elements of grand opera exist side by side with motivic integration representative of Wagner's most mature style. And yet the stylistic integrity of Götterdämmerung is scarcely compromised so skilfully are the disparate elements welded together and so intense the dramaturgical conviction. The resources and stamina demanded by the work from both singers and orchestra combined with its sheer length and theatrical potency make it one of the most daunting yet rewarding undertakings in the operatic repertory." Barry Millington in Grove Music Online. B. Schott's Söhne [PN 21500] unknown books
