Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composers

Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing, 1930. Octavo in red cloth; 3 volumes in 1 (approx. 1000 pages); illustrations (music); 22 cm. Very good(+) to near fine copy in good dust jacket protected in archival mylar; jacket is moderately to heavily edge worn with several closed and open tears along the edges and folds; rubbing along folds of jacket; cloth is very lightly rubbed and dust soiled along the edges; edges of leaves are very lightly dust soiled; o/w despite wear, jacket is solidly in one piece and protected from further wear by being in mylar; cloth is clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks, creases, foxing; a gently used copy in a well-loved DJ. in Good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

In English. Contents: Vol. I. Richard Wagner. Tannhäuser; The mastersingers of Nuremberg; Lohengrin; Tristan and Isolde; Parsifal; The Rhinegold; The Valkyrie; Siegfried; The Twilight of the gods; The flying Dutchman; Richard Wagner: a short biography -- Vol. II. Mozart (1756-1791) to Thomas (1811-1896). The Life of Mozart; The Marriage of Figaro; Don Giovanni; The Magic flute; The Life of Beethoven; Fidelio; Gioacchino Rossini; The Barber of Seville; William Tell; The Life of Weber; Der Freischütz; Ambroise Thomas; Mignon -- Vol. III. Verdi (1813-1901) to Puccini (1858-1924). The Life of Verdi; Rigoletto; La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Aida; Otello; Charles François Gounod; Faust; Georges Bizet; Carmen; Jacques Offenbach; The Tales of Hoffman; Engelbert Humperdinck; Hänsel and Gretel; Giacomo Puccini; La Bohème; Tosca; Madam Butterfly.