Journey Towards Music: A Memoir by Gollancz, Victor - 1965

London: Victor Gollancz. Good+. 1964. Hardback. 238 pages .

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1965. hardcover. near fine/very good. Illustrated, musical examples. 238pp., cloth, d.w.; dust jacket spine faded. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1965. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 238 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges and some fading on the spine; L-shaped tear at the upper edge of the rear panel; price clipped; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with 35 black and white plates and 2 colour plates. The Chapters are: Preliminaries - Fat Years and Lean Years; Production; Operatic Nostalgia; First Opera Nights; Struggle for Me by Verdi and Wagner; Tannhauser - Lohengin - Parsifal - The Ring; Wagner Performances in the Twenties and Thirties; Growing Doubts about the Ring; Gluck's Orfeo; Zeffirelli's Tosca; Beethoven; Idomeneo; The Hammerstein Season; Salzburg; and The Edgeware Road - the Albert Hall; followed by an appendix: A Proposed Opera Season; and an index..

NY: Dutton, 1965. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 238. Illustrated with photograhs and drawings. Little foxing on edges and at ends, o/w VG in dj wrinkled by a plastic jacket.

Victor Gollancz, 1964. hardback, illus. dust jacket

Victor Gollancz, London, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. foreword by author, appendix and index. The text is illustrated with 35 illustrations, of which two are in colour. Tan coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper black and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. The author's autobiography with musical interludes. Rubbing of the backstrip edges and corners. Browning with scattered box into the text block edges and endpapers. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right hand corner of the front paste-down and age toning of the pages. Little chipping to the dust at the corners and top backstrip edge. Sunning to this front dustwrapper edges and backstrip. Rubbing of the dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 238, [2] pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s).… Read More

New York: Dutton, 1965. Very Good. First American edition. Very good plus. Name on end paper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Dutton, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. About Very good in near Very good dustwrapper. Clean text with photos writing and stamps on front free endpaper, clean cloth covers, mild soil on cloth spine, gold stamping, slight spine lean, dustwrapper is slightly worn on edges, chip on front bottom fore edge 1/2 " long, text edges are discolored. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

E.P. Dutton, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Dust jacket is worn and loose, but still bright and intact. Contains bookplate of William Streb. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

NY: Dutton, 1965. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 238. Illustrated with photograhs and drawings. Slight foxing on edges and at ends, o/w a nice copy in chipped dj.