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schirmer, 1902 hardback book in very good-plus condition,rebound. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York.: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1902. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover 1902 edition. Covers and text in good condition. Binding firm. Notes in pencil, and red pencil to some pages. {323 pages}.

G. Schirmer, 1902-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice looking book, has minor edge wear, spine is faded. Pages are not crisp white.

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