The Hoffnung Music Festival by Hoffnung, Gerard - 1965-01-01

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 8th.* Date of Publication: 1965(1956)* Publisher: Dennis Dobson.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated paper covered boards matching jacket, black titles to spine & face. Slight bump to head and minor rubs to upper & lower edges. VG+* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper, black titles to spine and face on blue and white cartoon illustrated front and rear. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Spine aged and rubbed. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to end-papers, top & fore-edge, very slight age to page margins and edges. VG.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w line drawn cartoons within text throughout.* Pages: 56 pp. text. i pp., blank page at rear.* Description: The Hoffnung Music Festival has come to town. Famous visiting conductors are sharpening their batons, a piscatorial Trout Quintet is casting its lines and the vocal ranges of the primadonnas are somewhat alarming. Gerard Hoffnung was one of that select coterie of humorous artists who found international fame.* A VG++ text copy of the 1st/8th with some minor age and wear in a GD+ dust jacket.*