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New York: Summit, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 464 pp.

Paris: Choudens Père & Fils [PN A. C. 5185], 1883. Large octavo. Quarter black calf with black textured cloth boards, and publisher's label to upper board. 1f. (recto title within illustrated border by L. Denis, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso notes), 1f. (notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents), 2-178, 183-187, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast includes Jeanne Granier, Silly, Blanche Brun, d'Albe, Vandeline, Sandic, Morlet, Jolly, Germain, Mercier, Sujol, Dervilliers, Lamy, and Remondi. Binding slightly worn. Occasional minor foxing; some signatures partially split; occasional markings in blue crayon; portion lacking to upper margin of p. 121/122, not affecting music. First Edition, later issue. First performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on 16 December 1883, under the direction of Hecquard.

London: Stainer & Bell, 1980. Softcover. Very Good. Folio. xxix, 188 pp. Musica Britannica 46.

Krakow: PWM, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Oblong folio. 20 pp. Wrappers slightly worn.

London: Printed for & Sold by I. Walsh, Musick Printer and Instrument maker to his Majesty, at the Harp & Hoboy in Catherie Street in the Strand. No. 633, 1738. Folio. Early half dark brown mottled calf with marbled boards, raised bands on spine with black leather title label gilt. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto "A Table of Songs," verso blank), 1f. (recto "The Subscribers Names," verso blank), 88 pp. Engraved throughout. Contemporary manuscript additions to p. 66. Provenance Possibly from the collection of noted tea merchant Richard Twining (1749-1824), head of the eponymous English tea company, with contemporary Inscription to free front endpaper "Richard Twining hon[o]r[able] the Gift of his esteem'd Friend Mr. John Hingeston." Also with armorial bookplate of British architect Sir Gilbert Samuel Inglefield (1909-1991) incorporating a lion, shield, crowned helmet, pair of birds, and the motto "The Sun My Compass" to front pastedown. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped. Slightly worn;… Read More

Small folio (313 x 237 mm.). 8 pp. Notated in pencil on 12-stave G. Schirmer Royal Brand music paper. Signed by Menotti at head of first page. With several erasures and instances of rewriting, with original musical notation partially visible. Minor rust stain from paper clip to upper margin of first and last pages; slight indentation to upper margins throughout. In very good condition overall. Landscapes and Remembrances, a cantata for soloists, chorus, and orchestra to texts by Menotti, was first performed at Uihlein Hall in Milwaukee on May 14, 1976, with Judith Blegen (soprano), Ani Yervanian (contralto), Vahan Khanzadian (tenor), Gary Kendall (baritone), and the Milwaukee Symphony and Bel Canto Chorus, James Keeley, conducting. "The nine-part Landscapes and Remembrances is a set of musical impressions drawn from the composer's life, ranging from his arrival in America as a teenager to his discovery of South Carolina, where he founded the Spoleto USA Festival in 1977 ... The structure of… Read More

Leipzig: Josef Weinberger [PN J.W. 2360], 1924. Small folio. Full purple cloth with titling and decorative devices gilt to upper, patterned endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso cast list), 3-187, [i] (blank) pp. Text in Hungarian. Contemporary owner's signature and date to upper outer corner of title. Browned throughout, heavier to edges. First Edition. Farsangi lakodalom (Hochzeit im Fasching; Love Adrift), a comic opera in 3 acts, was first performed in Budapest at the Royal Hungarian Opera on 6 February 1924.

Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1892. Quarto. Original publisher's dark orange wrappers with titling within architectural border. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto preface, verso blank), [3]-5 (dramatis personae, synopsis, and contents), 6-236 pp. Wrappers detached with minor chips, tears, and tape repairs to edges; former owner's signature ("E.B. Shinmon") to upper wrapper; spine lacking. Some signatures split; former owner's signature to title; tape repair to upper margin of p. 131, not affecting music. Third version. [?]First American edition. First performed, to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Carré's Faust et Marguerite and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part I (in the French translation by Gérard de Nerval) in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique on 19 March 1859. To most opera lovers today, Gounod is essentially the composer of Faust and Roméo et Juliette and with good reason, for it would be difficult to defend the critical position that these are not his best works… Read More

New York: G. Schirmer [PN 16100], 1920. Large octavo. Full dark green decorative cloth gilt, titling gilt to spine, top edge gilt. 1f. (recto blank, verso portrait of composer), 1f. (recto title, verso cast list), v-xiv (notes on first performance, named cast list, and synopsis), 1f. (contents), 323, [i] (publisher's advertisement) pp. Named cast includes Barbot, Balanqué, Reynald, Cibot, Miolan-Carvalho, Faivre, and Duclos. Occasional performance annotations in blue crayon. Spine slightly worn. Former owner's signature to front free endpaper; occasional annotations in pencil. First performed, to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Carré's Faust et Marguerite and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part I (in the French translation by Gérard de Nerval) in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique on 19 March 1859. To most opera lovers today, Gounod is essentially the composer of Faust and Roméo et Juliette and with good reason, for it would be difficult to defend the critical position… Read More

[Paris], 1881. 279 x 198 mm. Signed by the artist in pencil at lower left. A very good impression on laid paper. Remnants of hinges to upper corners of verso. Béraldi: Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle (Paris: 1885-92), XI-188. Faust, an opera in five acts to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Carré's Faust et Marguerite and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part I (in the French translation by Gérard de Nerval), was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique on March 15, 1859. "Faust became particularly important to the French musical establishment at the end of the century. A work by a winner of the Prix de Rome that could claim to be thoroughly modern and personal in style at its première, and go on to international stages, was a significant enhancement to the musical prestige of a French operatic culture previously dominated by Meyerbeer and the none-too-easily exportable genre of opéra comique. Its national value was enhanced because, after some initial… Read More

Milano: Francesco Lucca [PNs 13851-13876], 1862. Folio. Dark gold cloth-backed wrappers. 1f. (recto with lithographic illustration of a scene from the opera, verso blank). 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto named cast list, verso table of contents with plate and page numbers), 247, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Text in Italian. Named cast includes Giuseppe Morini, Giorgio Atry, Luigi Colonnese, Vincenzo Paraboschi, Leonilda Boschetti, Maria Gualtieri, and Prassede Dompieri. Lacking upper wrapper, lower worn and soiled. Slightly worn, and soiled; margins and outer leaves foxed; occasional fraying, perforations, chips, and small tears not affecting music; upper portions of some leaves dampstained. First Italian edition of the second version. OCLC no. 16852458. Faust was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris on March 19th 1859 in a version with spoken dialogue; recitatives were added in 1860, and a ballet in 1869. The libretto by Barbier and Carre is based on Goethe, but focuses on… Read More

Kassel: Alkor-Edition [PN HV 145], 1985. Large octavo. Original publisher's wrappers with titling in blue. 1f. (recto title, verso copyright statement), [i] (recto cast list and orchestration), [iv] (contents), [i] (blank), [viii] (foreword), 388 pp. Text in German and French. Small price label to upper wrapper; spine slightly creased. First performed, to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Carré's Faust et Marguerite and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part I (in the French translation by Gérard de Nerval) in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique on March 19, 1859. To most opera lovers today, Gounod is essentially the composer of Faust and Roméo et Juliette and with good reason, for it would be difficult to defend the critical position that these are not his best works for the stage." Steven Huebner in Grove Music Online.

[Paris]: Choudens, 1900. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto named cast list and contents, verso blank), 132 pp. Named cast includes Barbot, Balanqué, Reynald, Cibot, Carvalho, Faivre, and Duclos. Bound with: Adam, Adolphe 1803-1856. Le Brasseur de Preston Opéra-Comique en trois Actes Paroles de MM. de Lenven et Brunswick... Représenté pour la première fois a Paris sur le Théatre Royal de l'Opéra-Comique le 31 Octobre 1838 Partition Piano et Chant: 15 francs. [Piano-vocal score]. Paris: Bichault [PN 4932 R.], [ca. 1900]. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (blank), [i] (contents), 102, [i] (blank), 103-240, [i] (blank), [i] (decorative device) pp. Large octavo. Quarter red leather with textured red cloth, spine in decorative compartments gilt, titling gilt, decorative endpapers. Binding slightly worn; remnants of label to spine. Browned; occasional foxing; some leaves trimmed; several leaves partially detached; some signatures split; annotation in pencil to verso of free front… Read More

Paris: Choudens [PN A.C. 664.], 1860. Large octavo. Quarter dark red cloth with textured boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (decorative lithographic title by P. de Grauzat printed in black, with portraits of Marguerite, Faust, and Méphistophélès), 1f. (named cast list and index), 252 pp. With red handstamp to lower edge of title and occasional editorial annotations, especially to front free endpaper, in a 20th-century hand. Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, bumped, and scuffed. Minor dampstaining, foxing, and offsetting; lacking upper corner of final leaf with no loss to music. Second edition. Hopkinson: Notes on the Earliest Editions of Gounod's Faust, 247. Faust was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris on 19 March 1859 in a version with spoken dialogue; recitatives were added in 1860, and a ballet in 1869. The libretto by Barbier and Carre is based on Goethe but focuses on the love story between Faust and Marguerite. "The historical importance of Faust is that it sounded a new… Read More

New York: Pantheon, 1945. Large octavo. Original publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards. 372 pp. With occasional illustrative plates and musical examples in text. Binding slightly worn. Uniform light browning.

Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Original publisher's green boards. 351 pp. With occasional illustrations and musical examples.

Berlin: Schlesische Verlagsanstalt, 1906. Hardcover. Good. Large octavo. Full maroon textured cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 194 pp., 1f. (recto bibliography, verso contents), + 4ff. illustrations including facsimiles of autograph letters. With numerous illustrations within text including facsimiles, some folding. Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, and bumped; joints frayed. Some signs of wear; rust marks from staples to some inner margins; several leaves detached. Berühmte Musiker Lebens- und Charakterbilder nebst Einführung in die Werke der Meister herausgegeben von Heinrich Reimann XVII.

Basel: Amerbach-Verlag, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Original publisher's red printed boards with facsimile of Mendelssohn's signature gilt to upper and titling gilt to spine. 150 pp. + 8ff. facsimiles. With tipped-in illustrations within text including portraits and facsimiles of autograph musical manuscripts. Binding slightly worn.

Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. 152 pp. Illustrated.

Zürich: Max Niehans Verlag, 1958. Octavo. Full linen with titling gilt to spine. 384 pp. With occasional illustrative plates in color tipped-in and illustrations in text.