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?Paris, 1920. Sheet size ca. 270 x 210 mm. Executed in black, blue, red, and white crayon and chalk on heavy tan wove paper. Signed by the artist at lower right, with a preparatory sketch (head only) in red chalk at upper right. The conductor is depicted in formal dress with baton in hand. Minor wear to lower right corner; slightly browned; several small pinholes to blank areas; light impression of former mat to extreme edges. This drawing is possibly a depiction of the Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) however this attribution is debatable. Abel Jules Faivre was a painter, illustrator, and cartoonist active in Paris in the early 20th century. He is particularly well-known for the posters he designed during World War I as well as for his portraits and caricatures.

Roma: Comunale Teatro Argentina, 1898. Octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers with titling in red. 1f. (recto title, verso copyright), [5]-6 (biographical note), [7] (named cast list), [8] (blank), [9]-50 pp. Cast includes Giuseppe Borgatti, Adele Borghi, Elvira Lorini, Ignazio Tabujo, Ruggero Galli, Federica Casali, and Adele Sporeni, under the direction of Edoardo Mascheroni. With small handstamp of the Italian musicologist Alberto Cametti to foot of title. With ticket stub for the 14th performance at the Comunale Teatro Argentina for the 1898-99 season laid in. Wrappers slightly worn; small rectangular inventory label to upper inner corner of upper. Minor wear; uniform browning; manuscript note in ink regarding first performance to title; manuscript notes in pencil to verso of cast list regarding the revival in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi on 16 February 1902. First Edition. Tartini or the Devil's Trill, in three acts to a libretto by Ugo Fleres, was first performed in Rome at the… Read More

Chicago: Bauman, 1933. Octavo. Boards. 95 pp. Signed by the author. Occasional illustrations. In worn dustjacket.

Berlin: Harmonie [PN 182], 1907. Folio. Black cloth-backed black paper-covered boards with octagonal label with "Der fidele Bauer Dirigier-Auszug" in manuscript to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso table of contents), 1f. (recto copyright notice, verso cast list), 1f. (recto part title, verso blank), 3-175, [i] (blank) pp. Piano-vocal score for the director, extensively marked up for performance with cues, and annotations in German in gray and multi-colored pencils. "Emil Richter Theater-Verlag Hamburg 36" handstamped to title. Blank verso of final page signed and dated "30.12.51 Vohenstrauß (Opf. [Oberpfaltz]) K. Pöllmann. With 2 typed pages of dialogue in Bavarian dialect laid in. Binding worn and bumped. Quite worn and soiled internally with frequent stains, tears, minor loss, and crude repairs, occasionally affecting music. Slightly foxed. First Edition. OCLC no. 43140078. Der fidele Bauer was first performed in Mannheim in 1907. Fall "gave up conducting in 1906 and settled in Vienna to… Read More

Wien: W. Karczag & K. Wallner [PN K. & W. 603], 1910. Smal quarto. Full dark brown cloth with titling gilt to upper, endpapers with floral motif printed in brown. 1f. (recto full-page illustration by Ferenchick in color, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso cast list and contents), 3-95, [i] (blank) pp. Bound with: Die lustige Witwe. Operette in drei Akten (teilweise nach einer fremden Grundidee) von Victor Léon und Leo Stein ... Klavierauszug zu 2 Händen mit unterlegtem Text. Wien: Ludwig Doblinger (Bernhard Herzmansky), [ca. 1910]. 1f. (recto decorative title printed in gold, verso blank), [1] (recto title, verso cast list and contents), 3-68 pp. Issued in commemoration of the 500th performance of the work. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped.

Leipzig: Ludwig Doblinger (Bernhard Herzmansky) [PN D. 4161.], 1909. Folio. Full contemporary brown cloth with titling gilt to upper, red speckled edges. 1f. (recto blank, verso facsimile dedication from Fall to Victor Léon), 1f. (recto illustrated title printed in dark red and black, verso cast list and table of contents), 3-76 pp. With supralinear text in German. Binding slightly worn, soiled, and warped; minor loss to head of spine; endpapers slightly browned at margins, with small tear to rear free endpaper. Occasional light soiling and wear. A good, clean copy overall. First Edition. OCLC no. 22744481. Die geschiedene Frau, after Victorien Sardou's Divorçons!, was performed at the Carltheater in Vienna on December 23, 1908, conducted by the composer. '[Fall] gave up conducting in 1906 and settled in Vienna to concentrate on operetta composition. Der fidele Bauer (1907), Die Dollarprinzessin (1907) and Die geschiedene Frau (1908) swiftly established him alongside Lehár and Oscar Straus in… Read More

Paris: Editions Max Eschig [PN M.E. 400, M.E. 1639], 1913. Small folio. Original publisher's dark ivory decorative wrappers printed in dark brown. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso notes on first performance at the Opéra-Comique with named cast list), 1f. (notes on first performance in Nice with named cast list, verso blank), 1f. (recto contents, verso blank), 3-121, [i] (publisher's catalogue) pp. Named cast for the first performance in Nice at the Casino Municipal on 1 April 1913 under Farconnet includes Lillian Grenville, Fanty, Gerday, Daurelly, Bernard, David Devries, Cotreuil, Raynal, Termany, and Rouziery. Named cast for the first performance in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 7 January 1914 under Carré includes Marguerite Carré, Brohly, Syril, Billa-Azema, Carrière, Camia, Joutel, Fernand Francell, Vieuille, Vigneau, Vaurs, Donval, Deloger, and Donval. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled; handstamps to upper, including "Baton," with additional handstamps below… Read More

Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler-Verlag, 1980. Paperback. Good. Small octavo. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. 126 pp. + 1f. publisher's advertisements. With illustrations and musical examples. Slightly worn and browned.

Wien: A. Franz Göth & Co, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. Boards. 5ff., 9-324 pp. Illustrated. In dustjacket.

1857. 4 scores. Folio. Disbound. - Kálmán Csárdás. [Pest]: Hölgyfutár, 1857. [1] (title), 2-3, [1] (blank) pp. Engraved. Not in Mona. - Irma Csárdás. [Pest]: Hölgyfutár, 1857. [1] (title), 2-3, [1] (blank) pp. Engraved. Not in Mona. Published the same year by Rózsavölgyi. - Csornai Emlék Csárdás. Pesten: Rózsavölgyi és társa [PN R. & Co. 644], [1860]. [1] (title), 2-3, [1] (blank) pp. Mona 1499. - Egyesüljünk Csárdás. Becsben: Intezseb, [1861]. [1] (title), 2-3, [1] (blank) pp. Published the same year by Rózsavölgyi. Light offsetting to titles; scattered foxing. Farkas was a celebrated Romani violinist who toured both Europe and America with his band of fellow musicians throughout the 1850s and 60s. He proudly claimed no knowledge of music notation and had others notate his original compositions.

Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag fur Music, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. 205, [i] pp. Profusely illustrated. On coated paper. Text in German. In dustjacket. Musikgeschichte in Bildern: Vol. III, Part 2, Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance.

Hardcover. Very Good. Large folio. Full white linen with titling in dark brown to upper. 205 pp. With numerous illustrations, some in color. Binding slightly worn; upper hinge tender. Band III: Musik Des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Lieferung 2, in the series Musikgeschichte in Bildern edited by Heinrich Besseler and Max Schneider.

With "GG Co 6" printed at lower left of plate and "Geraldine Farrar" at lower right. Laid down to mounting sheet at corners of verso. Geraldine Farrar was an American soprano who "studied in Boston, New York and Paris; soon after her début at the Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin (Faust, 15 October 1901), she became a pupil of Lilli Lehmann, to whose Donna Anna she was later to sing Zerlina at Salzburg. After five years in Berlin, Farrar joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she first appeared as Gounod's Juliet in 1906, and quickly became one of the leading stars of the company. She remained at the Metropolitan until 1922, when she made her farewell as Leoncavallo's Zazà on 22 April. With her personal beauty, clear tone and shapely phrasing she excelled in such lyrical parts as Zerlina and Cherubino, Manon and Mignon, as well as in several Puccini roles, among them the heroine in the 1918 première of Suor Angelica. She was also the first Goose Girl in Humperdinck's Königskinder (1910).… Read More

Image size 242 x 191 mm., overall size 295 x 203 mm. Image slightly worn and soiled; very small chips to margins. Mounted to heavy board. Geraldine Farrar was an American soprano who "studied in Boston, New York and Paris; soon after her début at the Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin (Faust, 15 October 1901), she became a pupil of Lilli Lehmann, to whose Donna Anna she was later to sing Zerlina at Salzburg. After five years in Berlin, Farrar joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she first appeared as Gounod's Juliet in 1906, and quickly became one of the leading stars of the company. She remained at the Metropolitan until 1922, when she made her farewell as Leoncavallo's Zazà on 22 April. With her personal beauty, clear tone and shapely phrasing she excelled in such lyrical parts as Zerlina and Cherubino, Manon and Mignon, as well as in several Puccini roles, among them the heroine in the 1918 première of Suor Angelica. She was also the first Goose Girl in Humperdinck's Königskinder… Read More

Blankenburg: Harz, 1983. Octavo. Original publisher's white wrappers printed in dark blue. 62 pp + "Nachwort" and contents. A facsimile of the work first printed in Berlin in 1801. Studien zur Aufführungspraxis und Interpretation von Instrumentalmusik des 18. Jahrhunderts, Heft 21.

Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. Quarter dark blue morocco with marbled boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto half-title, verso printer's note), 1f. (recto title, verso blank) 1f. (recto part title, verso blank) [7]-339, [i] (blank) pp. With numerous illustrative plates. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor browning and foxing. Small label of Parisian bookseller Garnier Arnoul to verso of free front endpaper. With historical notes on the Opéra and its productions together with biographical notes on associated singers and dancers, with portraits.

Paris: J. Hamelle [PN J. 4586 H.], 1900. Large octavo. Quarter red calf with matching textured paper boards with initials "A.T." gilt to upper outer corner, raised bands on spine, titling gilt, decorative endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance and named cast list, verso index), 3-176 pp. Named cast includes Cora Laparcerie, Odette de Fehl, de Max, Fierens-Peters, Rose Feldy, Torrès, Valentin Duc, Vallier, and Roussoulière. With manuscript additions listing singers in the 26 August 1901 performance, one year after the first. Small oval handstamp to lower outer corner of title. Binding slightly worn and rubbed. Light uniform browing; some signatures partially detached. Second version. Prométhée was first performed in Béziers at the Arênes de Béziers on 26 August 1900. "[The work] ... is scored for three wind bands, 100 strings and 12 harps, choirs and solo voices. The success of the productions on 27 and 28 August 1900 was immense; the work was… Read More

Paris, 1785. 112 x 152 mm. Titled in manuscript at upper left corner. A fine impression on laid paper. The scene depicts the three "sultanes," one dancing, one playing the harp, and one observing, as Soliman looks on.

Paris: Didier, 1953. Softcover. Good. Quarto. Dark ivory wrappers printed in green. 194 pp. With occasional illustrative plates and musical examples. Slightly worn; browned.

No binding. Very Good. Bust-length portrait of the noted American silent film actress. Notated in black ink. Ca. 240 x 194 mm. Light bumping, silvering, browning, and soiling; in excellent condition overall. Together with the original envelope from Fazenda at Warner Bros. Studio in Hollywood. Ca. 200 x 250 mm. With the recipient's name (Bernice Thibodeau) and address typed to upper panel. Worn, with tearing and some loss at corners; significant browning.