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The Complete Opera Book - The Stories of the Operas, Together with 410 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation
by Gustav Kobbe
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London & New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1924 Book. Fair. Beige Cloth Boards. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Comprehensive description of the major operas. 925pp illustrated with 64 black and white plates. Gilt design to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Bottom edges untrimmed, small stains to fore-edges and top edges dusty. Boards frayed, with small splits to backstrip and slight browning to endpapers, otherwise fair copy with no inscriptions. HEAVY BOOK, additional postage will be requested..
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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004862
- Title
- The Complete Opera Book - The Stories of the Operas, Together with 410 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation
- Author
- Gustav Kobbe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- G P Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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