Opera Singers: A Pictorial Souvenir with Biographies of Some of the Most Famous Singers of the Day. by Gustav Kobbe - 1901

Oliver Ditson Company. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Good/None. Light green cloth, white titles and decoration. Binding cracked and shaken; spine darkened, with titles only partially visible. Cloth rubbed and shelfworn. Ink name on front endpaper. ; 9-1/2" x 12"

New.

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company. Very Good. 1913. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in decorated green cloth boards. No dust jacket. Sixth edition, of 1913. Book is crisp and clean and binding is tight. Front endpaper is missing. Spine is discolored and worn at top and bottom edges. There is a 1/4" tear to cloth along spine. Corners are lightly bumped, and there are a few small stains on front board. Lovely black and white photographs throughout, with biographical sketches of the singers, including Enrico Caruso. Unpaginated. Heavy--will require additional postage if shipped outside the U. S. .

Oliver Ditson, 1901. Very Good. Kobbe, Gustav. Opera Singers. Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1901. [48]pp. Illustrated. Small folio. Green cloth, gilt and blue embossed. Book condition: Very good. Edges are rubbed, front cover has a few smudges and a small pencil marking, front endsheets are rubbed and smudged. Many character labeled photos of opera singers in costume.

Oliver Ditson Company, 1904. Hardcover. Good. . Rubbing/scuffing to boards. Pages clean, binding a little shaken but intact.

Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, G+ or better, some soiling to covers, many photos, some full page in contemporary character regalia, text about the developments of the art at the time.

New York, R.H. Russell, 1901., 1901. First edition. Small folio. Illustrated with 30 full page b/w portraits and many smaller b/w photographs of singers in costume, taken from some of their best known performances. Original tan pictorial boards with a photograph of a rather stern looking Brünnhilde, cloth spine (chip to top of spine; rubbing). Good. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Printed at Press of the J.W. Pratt Co., New York. Short biographies of several turn of the century prima donnas including Mme. Nordica (Lillian Norton), Mme Calvé (Emma Roquer), Emma Eames and Mme, Melba (Nellie Mitchell).. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.