Scotto, More than A Diva
by Renata Scotto, Octavio Roca
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 038518039X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385180399
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£17.14£12.00
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1984 Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1984. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($16.95); light bumping to head and tail. Red boards with black cloth overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 245 pp 8vo. This is the story of a singer. As a supreme Verdi interpreter, bel canto specialist, and prima donna assoluta of the verismo repertoire, Renata Scotto is one of today's foremost singers. A consummate artist, she debuted at La Scala as a teenager taking 15 curtain calls; replaced Maria Callas in Edinburgh and became an overnight sensation. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008939
- Title
- Scotto, More than A Diva
- Author
- Renata Scotto, Octavio Roca
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 038518039X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385180399
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Renata Scotto, opera singer, Verdi, Prima Donna, World War II, La Scala, Maria Callas, singer, actress, diva, opera dive,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs; Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Autobiography;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...