Search Results: the wagner stories by filson young

Grant Richards, 1911. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1911. Reprinted. 297 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Notable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks overall. Textblock is shaky.

E. Grant Richards, 1907. Hardcover. Good. 1907. No edition remarks. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

London.: Grant Richards Ltd., 1910. xv, 298pp, portrait frontis, remains of a prize label. Brown limp suede leather prize binding, with gilt decoration & titles, slightly scuffed. . Reprint. Soft Cover.. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Grant Richards, 1912. green cloth a little bumped, nice copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1923 Book. Fair. Suede Binding. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Narrativesof Wagner's operas, translated by Eric Maclagen. 286pp plus chronology to rear. Green suede soft cover with yapped edges, gilt illustration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, portrait to frontis, all edges gilt. Top edges marked, spine faded to brown, yapped edges worn, loss to top and bottom of spine, left hinge showing, slight foxing to edges and gift inscription to front endpaper..

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-12-01. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-12-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Grant Richards, London, 1912 Grant Richards, London 1912 hardback no jacket black titles to spine with gilt St Michael shield to front board with green cloth, 298 Pages, including a Chronolgy at the back.b/w plates and frontis of Wagner and decorative eps, has St Maicheels School award label to fep, boards has some waer and tanning to extremeties but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

London England: E. Grant Richards. Very Good/No Jacket. 1907. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback Hardback. First Edition. Message to previous owner dated 1907 to inside cover. Foxing to end inside covers. Tiny nip to spine of cloth. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. A long and varied experience of introducing people to the enjoyment of Wagner's operas has convinced me that the process of initiation is generally made far too formidable. The unfortunate novice is plied with information about leading motives and characterization till he goes to the opera like a nervous schoolboy trying to remember his lesson, and has his mind so concentrated on details that the work as a whole too often produces no intelligible effect upon him. I would like to assure the amateur who is as yet unacquainted with these masterpieces that all this semi-masonic mystery of initiation is quite unnecessay. All that is necessary is that he… Read More

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London: Grant Richards, 1908. Full-Leather. Near Very Good. Contemporary Red Limp Full-Leather Binding with yapped edges. Gilt Medaqllion Portrait on front and Gilt Lettering to spine. Red Illustrated Endpapers, front has a Double Page scene from "The Flying Dutchman". Other Stories include: Tannhauser, Tristran and Isolde, Lohengrin; Trilogy of the Neibelung's Rings, Parsifal. Top page edges Gilt, other edges untrimmed. Frontis illustrated with a Sanguine Portrait of Wagner, Protected by tissue guard. 298 Pages, including a Chronolgy at the back. 8" Tall, 340g. Small closed tear to folded section of leather at top corner (1/4" long). Gift inscription dated 1908 on Half-title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall

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Paperback / softback. New.

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London: Grant Richards LTD, 1923. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A prize binding copy of Filson Young's interesting prose interpretations of Richard Wagner's operatic works, illustrated with a frontispiece. A collection of prose interpretations and lyric translations of Richard Wagner's opera works. Containing 'The Flying Dutchman', 'Tristan and Isolde', 'The Mastersingers of Nuremberg', and more. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Told by Filson Young, a journalist. He is known for writing the first book about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, only thirty-seven days after the ship sunk. Young was also a war correspondent in the Boer War and in World War I. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, '1st Prize - Music, C. Belfield, d. d. Richard Ridcock, R. Douglas Slater, July 1925'. With 'Bramcote Scarborough' in gilt to the front board. In a full calf prize binding. Externally, smart. Light rubbing to the spine. A little fading to the… Read More