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Ten Operatic Masterpieces
by Downes, Olin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth on board. Very Good+/Good. Stamped in gilt and blind. Quarto. 9-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches. Top edge stained yellow. Intensely dramatic illustrated red and yellow pictorial endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket shows price of $10.00. 569 pages. More than 80 decorative drawings by Alberta Sordini, Design by Merle Armitage, text by Olin Downes, piano arrangements by Leonard Marker, and introduction by Dimitri Mitropoulos. Calibrated discography with rare "Musicator - BMI Music Locater" strip laid in. Cover cloth slightly faded along bottom edges of both boards. All tips sharp. Two small white flecks on front board. Front board slightly bowed. Binding solid and tight. Text block square with very light foxing on edges. Pages clean and unmarked. Grey, black, and red dustjacket has rubbing to leading edges, stains in various locations on all panels, and scattered chipping at extremeties. Presents a thorough, collaborative examination of 10 operatic works: Marriage of Figaro, Tales of Hoffmann, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Aida, Carmen, Boheme, Tosca, Rosenkavalier, Love of Three Oranges, Wozzeck. Dust jacket now in removable archival cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000119
- Title
- Ten Operatic Masterpieces
- Author
- Downes, Olin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Blue cloth on board
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Opera
- Bookseller catalogs
- Performing Arts; Music;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in November of 2008, a "mom & pop" business, locally owned and independent, with the proprietors, Nathan Montoya and Anne Vestuto, living above the shop. For fifteen years, as a full-service general bookstore, we offered a carefully curated selection of quality used and new books.
In January of 2024, Village Lights transitioned to a rare and antiquarian book shop located on the second floor of our building. We now offer a modest, but growing, eclectic selection of rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, with strength in modern firsts and signed copies. We also sell handmade letterpress books and broadsides from Larkspur Press.
We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand.
We invite you to visit our website or make an appointment to visit us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
In January of 2024, Village Lights transitioned to a rare and antiquarian book shop located on the second floor of our building. We now offer a modest, but growing, eclectic selection of rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, with strength in modern firsts and signed copies. We also sell handmade letterpress books and broadsides from Larkspur Press.
We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand.
We invite you to visit our website or make an appointment to visit us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Quarto
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Edges
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