Opera Caravan: Adventures of the Metropolitan on Tour, 1883-1956
by Eaton, Quaintance. Foreword by Rudolf Bing
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo, 4 pp., illus. Inscribed and signed by author. Head and heel of spine bumped, page edges tanned and a bit dusty, previous owner address label and blind stamp, faint smudge to rear pastedown. Fragment only of jacket is laid in.
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- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15640
- Title
- Opera Caravan: Adventures of the Metropolitan on Tour, 1883-1956
- Author
- Eaton, Quaintance. Foreword by Rudolf Bing
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
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