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Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. Boards. 213, [i] pp. Profusely illustrated, including some plates in color. On coated paper. In dustjacket. Musikgeschichte in Bildern herausgegeben von Heinrich Besseler und Werner Bachmann: Band III, Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Lieferung 3.

Potsdam: Athenaion, 1933. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Boards. 160 pp. With illustrative plates including some in color tipped-in. Upper hinge tender.

Paris: Maurice Senart. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Boards. 92 pp. + 24 illustrative plates.

New York: Seabury, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 232 pp. In dustjacket.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Boards. 197 pp. Frontispiece detached.

New York: Random House, 1984. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 342 pp. With occasional illustrations and musical examples. From the library of noted musicologist and critic Edward O.D. Downes (1911-2001), with his small printed ownership label to title. Minor staining to edges of final leaves; small annotation in red ink.

München: Wilhelm Goldmann, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Boards. 333 pp. With author's signed inscription to front free endpaper. Near-fine.

Luzern: Keller & Co, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Original publisher's illustrated boards. 37 pp. text + pp. 41-99 illustrative plates, many in color.

London: Wm. Reeves, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes. Octavo. Full maroon cloth with titling gilt to spines. xxxii, 418; xvii, [419]-732 pp. + 48 pp. "Reeves' Musical Literature List." With bust-length oval frontispiece portrait of Wagner to Vol. I. Contains chapters entitled Opera and the Essence of Music; The Stage-Play and Dramatical Poetic Art in the Abstract; and Poetry and Music in the Drama of the Future. Binding very slightly worn; endpaper slightly browned.

Signed with the artist's initials in the block. 157 x 122 mm. + wide margins. A fine impression on japon paper. Limited to 72 copies, this no. 8, numbered in pencil at lower right.

Mainz: B. Schott's Söhnen, 1870. Original publisher's light gray printed wrappers with titling with ruled border. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto cast list, verso blank), [5]-84 pp. + 2ff. publisher's advertisements. With publisher's advertisements to both recto and verso of lower wrapper. With small handstamp of the Italian writer on music, composer, and keyboard performer Alberto Cametti (1871-1935) to foot of title. Wrappers somewhat worn; small edge tears; some chips with minor loss not affecting text; most of spine lacking; small rectangular inventory label to upper inner corner. Uniform light browning; corners of several leaves slightly creased. First separate edition, [?]later issue. Klein p. 46. Deathridge, Geck, & Voss p. 366, VIIIb. Schneider catalogue 276. First performed on June 26, 1870 in Munich at the Königliches Hof und- Nationaltheater in three acts, to a libretto by the composer, the first day of the Ring des Nibelungen. "As a single opera, Die Walküre may be… Read More

370 x 249 mm + wide margins. Titled "Ständchen" in pencil and signed by the artist in pencil at lower right, just within platemark, with "Probedrucke" (proof) in pencil at lower left; remarque of six cats to center. Printed on japan paper. A fine, strong impression. Slightly worn and creased at margins. One of a series of 12 etchings by Staeger of scenes from Die Meistersinger in an edition of 175 copies only, published in Munich by Othmar Kern in 1921. Muschler: Ferdinand Staeger, 160. Staeger, an important German printmaker, worked in Vienna, Prague and, finally, in Munich. In addition to his depictions of scenes from Wagner's operas he also made prints of scenes from Mozart's operas.

Oblong octavo (101 x 160 mm. ). The first 8 measures. Notated in black ink on four staves, the four vocal parts incorporated into one stave. Inscribed below the quote: "Gesang der Pilger aus Tannhäuser, und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg ... von Richard Wagner." With the date "Janu. 3d, 1846" in the hand of the British concert manager and critic John Ella (1802-1888) at lower left, presumably the day on which Wagner both penned the quotation and presented it to Ella. Together with: An original 19th century photograph of Wagner, 82 x 53 mm. The composer is depicted half-length, turned left, with his right hand extending into jacket pocket. Together with: A 1-page (167 x 245 mm.) autograph statement in Ella's hand relating how he acquired the present autograph: "The property of Prof. Ella, 9 Victoria Square S.W, XI/113. Written in my Album and presented to me in Dresden as a memento of my visit & a token of friendship. This Autograph was exhibited in the 'Loan Collection' at South Kensington 1885 Jno… Read More

Berlin: Henschelverlag Berlin, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 582 pp., 1f. Illustrated, some in color. Dustjacket torn at edges. With the autograph signature and date of the Nobel Prize-winning physician Philip Showalter Hench (1896-1965) to front free endpaper: "Philip S. Hench Leningrad Feb 3, 1961 USSR.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Boards. 254 pp. With numerous musical examples.

Studio of Becker & Maass in Berlin, with their stamp to lower right corner. From the collection of the distinguished American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne (b. 1934). Slightly worn. Harry Walden was a German stage and screen actor with a short but vibrant career. He appeared in many classical stage productions and was a noted interpreter of Oscar Wilde's plays. He also appeared in the films "The Mandarin" (1918), "Der Umweg zur Ehe," and "Zwei Welten" (both 1919). In 1921, at age 45 Walden was killed in a tragic incident that rocked Berlin society. A contemporary article in the New York Times reported that Walden's wife, the actress Frieda Wagen-Hohenthal, attacked Walden and his stepson with a razor while under the influence of morphine, then turned the knife on herself. All three of them died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. The Honig family emigrated from Vienna to England in September of 1938 and then to the United States in 1939. The family papers are held at the Holocaust Museum in… Read More

Philadelphia: Chilton, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full light maroon cloth, titling black to spine. 114 pp. With musical examples. In slightly worn dustjacket.

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1966. Very Good. Small octavo. Boards. xii, 114 pp. With numerous musical examples.

London: Hutchings & Romer [PN H & R. 8475.], 1880. Octavo. Full pebbled black cloth over flexible boards. 1f. (title), [1] (table of contents), 2-387, [i] (publisher's catalog) pp. Text in English and Italian. Pages 385-387 printed in duplicate. Binding slightly worn. Minor internal browning; some soiling; occasional tears with minor loss to margins; slightly cropped, occasionally affecting text, pagination and staves; slightly browned; large tear to pp. 9-10 repaired with no loss to music. OCLC no. 8218408. Maritana was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on November 15, 1845. Wallace was an "Irish composer, violinist, conductor, and pianist, active in the United States... [His] compositions, especially his operas Maritana and Lurline, were immensely popular in America, and his compositions were performed regularly in concerts well after his death." Jonas Westover in Grove Music Online.

London: Hutchings [PN H & R 9575], 1870. Octavo. Original publisher's printed wrappers with title label to spine. [i] (title), [i] (index), 378 pp. Text in English and Italian. Wrappers worn and soiled; detached; corners chipped; spine reinforced with brown cloth tape. Worn; annotations in pencil to title; signatures separated. A later issue.