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USA: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. G.P. Putnam's Sons 1935 Near Fine/Fair DJ Light tip weawr to black cloth o/w Fine. Previous owner's sticker inside cover, tight bright illustrated pages. Dust jacket pices ONLY neatly trimmed and laid inside with 90% of all text preserved. HEAVY ITEM 2.63 Pounds. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair DJ. No Exp.

London: Putnam, 1935. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. with sixty-three portraits in costume and scenes from opera. Brown cloth boards. Scuffing and fading on cover and spine. Front inner hinge deeply cracked at the title page with webbing exposed. Pen notes and underlining on Index pages. No jacket, book plate label on the front paste down.

London & New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1924 Book. Fair. Beige Cloth Boards. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Comprehensive description of the major operas. 925pp illustrated with 64 black and white plates. Gilt design to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Bottom edges untrimmed, small stains to fore-edges and top edges dusty. Boards frayed, with small splits to backstrip and slight browning to endpapers, otherwise fair copy with no inscriptions. HEAVY BOOK, additional postage will be requested..

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good+. Half leather boards, octavo, 925pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has toning and mild cracking to spine, five raised bands on spine, mild edgewear to boards and spine ends, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with handsome gilt to top edge of block.

New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1935 Book. Good. Brown Cloth Boards. 19th Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Comprehensive description of the major operas. 993pp illustrated with 64 black and white plates. Gilt lettering to spine. Fore edges untrimmed and top edges sunned. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. DJ edgeworn with faded spine and detached rear flyleaf. HEAVY BOOK, additional postage will be requested..

London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons NONE [NONE] 1926. (hardcover) xx. Very good. 8vo. Taupe cloth, gilt title stamped to spine with gilt decoration stamped to top board. Bottom edges rough cut, as published. Moderate wear to cover and it is starting at the front hinge. There are two names penned (neat) to the front free endpaper. Small sticker to inside front cover. Frontispiece. First published (posthumously) in the United States in 1919 and in the UK in 1922, this is the 1926 reprint of the English edition. Internally clean and bright, illustrated with many black and white plates. Illustrated with Sixty-four Portraits in Costume and Scenes from Opera..

London & New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1933 Book. Good. Beige Cloth Boards. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gustave Kobbe died before completing this book and the final material was supplied by Katharine Wright and Ferruccio Bonavio. 955pp with index, illustrated with 63 portraits in costume and various scenes from operas, in black and white. Emblem to front board and lettering to spine. Lower edges untrimmed and rubbed to extremities, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. HEAVY BOOK, additional postage will be requested..

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. c. 1950. First Edition (?). Twentieth Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with many full-page portraits in costume and Scenes from the Opera. . There is a one-inch closed tear on the edge of the spine, else near fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . B & W photographs . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxii, (i), 1009, (63-plates) pp .

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London England: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. Hardcover. The Complete Opera Book. Foxing to end inside covers. Red dye to bottom edge of first and last few pages. Corners worn. Slight tear to back cover. Browning to spine. Brown cloth with black lettering. Contents: Schools of Opera. Opera Before Gluck. Why Some Operas Are Rarely Given. French Opera. Italian Opera Since Verdi. Modern Italian Opera. Modern French Opera. Russian Opera. American Opera. Spanish Opera. Recent and Revised Operas. Index. Illustrated with Sixty-Three Portraits in Costume and Scenes From Opera. 955 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. . Deluxe binding in blue calf with gilt ruling, lettering, and decoration. All edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing to the extremities, joints starting. Pages are lightly tanned with minor scattered foxing.

197The Complete Opera Book is a very interesting and comprehensive book of operas illustrated with sixty three portraits, besides many lyrical and musical notation excerpts. There are very minor indications of wear in this book and no markings. The binding is very slightly discolored from exposure compared to the rest of the cover. I have been unable to find another copy of the 1937 version.