Search Results: Music/Opera & Libretto from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

New York: Fred Rullman, Inc, n.d. (ca.1900's). Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera Libretto (English/Italian). Grey Pictorial Stapled-wraps. Small 4to. pp. 28, 4 Aria "Celeste Aida". Near Fine. First European performance at La Scala, Milan, February 8, 1872..

New York: Charles E. Burden (F. Rullman), n.d. Published for Boston-National Grand Opera Company. Stapled-wrap libretto, dec & pr cover, cover price 35 crossed out to 40 cents. 8vo. pp. 49, [3] blank. Good. Some cover darkening..

New York/London: John Lane Co., /The Bodley Head, 1909. second thus printing edition. c.1908 London. Portions previously appearing in Harper's Weekly and The Musician. Green ribbed cloth stamped gilt, uncut. Globe 8vo. pp. 215, [1] colophon. Near Fine/No jacket. Traces of cap and corner rub. Introductory: The Wagnerian Aftermath, A View of Puccini, Strauss' Salome: Its Art and Its Morals, A Perfect Music-Drama..

New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co, 1926. Illustrated by color cover. first edition. Operatic edition 211-4 {piano and voice}. Sheet music. 4to. pp. 5, [1] Ad. Good. Large fold tear, short tears on inside sheet (Scan trim at sides and bottom)..

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1976). Illustrated by b/w photographs throughout, some color. Stated first printing edition. First state with public on line 2, page 12 as: (When I was only three...I sang my first aria in pubic). White linen with burgundy titles. Signed by author on front purple endpaper. 4to. pp. 240. Index. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Very light edgewear to book and jacket, two lightly bumped corners..

New York: (Milan, Eduardo Sonzogno) G. Schirmer, (1891). Illustrated by b/w port frontis. Stated Authorized, 9773 edition. (c.1889, prize competition). Stitched wraps, decorated cover. Imperial 8vo. pp. [viii], 146. Very Good-. Foxed cover, overall toning. Inside cover has spine white tape reinforcement housing music as a folder. Sporadic pencil checks in margins. Italian/English. First produced May 18, 1890 at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome..

New York: Oliver Ditson Co, n.d. {SB and piano}. Opera Songs Series. Folded sheet music. 31cm. pp. 7. Very Good. Toning..

New York: Harms, 1931. First thus edition. Green cloth. 4to (29,5cm). pp. 301. Near Fine/Ex-Lib. Library markings only flaws..

N.P: N.P., n.d. {SATB, piano acc.} 11947 (assumed Schirmer numbering). Custom bound in vinyl flexible cloth, gilt print spine. 4to. pp. 322. VG. Japan paper repairs to pp. 81, 319, 321 (last bar missing from pp. 321-2, Ballet). Introduction by Theodore Baker..

Boston: Oliver Ditson (Grand Opera Librettos), 1884. English adaptation by Henry Hersee and T.T. Barker. Blue Pictorial Stapled-wraps. 24.2cm. pp. 43, [4] Ads. VG. Straightened cover dogear, edge darkening, (ink owner)..

Kansas City, MI: Hallmark Cards, December 1960. Illustrated by b/w photographs. First thus edition. first performed 1959 as "Western Child". Brown checked paper covered boards, paper spine and topboard titles. 8vo. pp. 61. Very Good/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Minor board bumps in jacket with edgewear and rear soil, one short closed rear tear..

New York: M. Witmark & Sons, (1907). First thus edition. 1492 Operatic Series {piano and voice, baritone or mezzo-soprano in C}. Sheet music. 4to. pp. [2], 4. Good. Short tears, tape repair on fold, toning. Includes page of Harry B. Smith lyrics in verse..

New York: G. Ricordi, 1912. {T and piano} 114132. Folded sheet music. 31cm. pp. 5. Good. Toning, tape repaired folder joint, old vertical crease, several tiny tears. "Sung by Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti", English/Italian..

Berlin & Posen: Ed. Bote & G. Bock, n.d. [1878]. [c.1877 Marschner & Stephan] VN:11435. Contemporary red cloth backed cloth, gilt stamped topboard. 8vo. pp. 202. Fair. Front hinge and spine broken, heavily toned with some old tape repairs, several repeats blocked out with pencil. Merit as complete copy, scarce. Second opera (following the successful Das Goldene Kreus, The Golden Cross) with same librettist..

New York: Fred. Rullman, Inc, n.d. Libretto printed for the Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera. Kirsten Flagstad rear cover. Stapled-wrap, grey cover. Small 4to. pp. 36, 37-40 "O! Night of Love" music notation. Near Fine. Original German with correct English translation..

Milano: Tipografia del Corriere della Sera, 1900. Illustrated by color plates and b&w reproductions, caricatures and drawings throughout. Only edition. Rebound period brown library cloth, yellow topstain. 4to (30cm). pp. vi, [4], 360. Indices. Very Good/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Discard bookplate of Radcliffe College Master School of Music Association, removed rear envelope and spine label. Gift of inscription, foxing starting internally with overall page toning. Produced for subscribers of Milan daily newspaper established in 1876 which became part of the Rizzoli group in the 1960's. Thorough review of Italian operatic composers Antonio Sacchini 1730-86 through Umberto Giordano 1867-1948, including performers and staging through art and ephemera. A sturdy, tight copy..

: Willa Perlman (HarperCollins), (1992). Illustrated by Jacket, frontis and 15 watercolors by Barry Moser (verso), Libretto with calligraphy by Reassurance Wunder (recto). Stated First (trade) edition. Cloth backed boards. 4to. pp. [48]. Fine/Near Fine/Unclipped price in mylar. Traces of wear to jacket. Red Scripture reference in margins. ISBN: 0060217790..

New York: Boosey & Hawkes, (1948). Translated by Frances Holden from the German. Illustrated by pp.[16] b/w photographs. First (NAP) edition. Pale blue linen, stamped silver. 8vo. pp. 262. VG+/VG-/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear, overall page toning in jacket with shallow edge chips and tears, rubbed at folds, toned rear..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1972). Edited by David Russell Williams. Third printing edition. {piano and voice}. Blue Decorated cloth. 4to. pp. 272. Near Fine. 2-10 selections from each of 12 operas: Poppea, Dido and Anease, Orpheus and Euridice, Figaro, Tristan and Isolde, Parsifal, Aida, Faust, Carmen, Boris Godunov, La Boheme, Pelleas and Melisande..

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Stated First edition. Black cloth. 8vo. pp. xiv, 338. Fine/VG+/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear and soiling to jacket..