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Parsifal: A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation
by HUCKEL, Oliver
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- Hardcover
- first
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1903. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering. xviii, 71pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 4 full-page called-for illustrations. Very good. Binding a tad edgeworn (mainly at spine head/tail), with spine a bit sunned, else tight and internally near fine. Nice first edition of this prose version of the German composer's 1882 opera, itself a retelling of a 13th century Arthurian poem about Percival's search for the Holy Grail. Huckel (1864-1940) was a Congregationalist pastor who penned no less than nine works based on Wagner operas. Rather uncommon.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47647
- Title
- Parsifal: A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation
- Author
- HUCKEL, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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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....
- Sunned
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- Top Edge Gilt
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