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Paris: S. Richault [PN 380 R], 1860. Folio. Green leather-backed marbled boards, titling and decorative devices gilt to spine. 1f. (title), 215, [1] (blank) pp. Engraved. With an autograph inscription to fellow-composer Francesco Maria Albini (1829-1917) signed "T Mabellini" in ink to upper margin of title, with Albini's signature and "1032" to lower margin of title. First Edition. Rare. Worldcat records copies at the Bibliothèque Nationale and University of California, Berkeley only. Bound with: MABELLINI. [Requiem]. Libera me Domine pour quatrevoix avec chœur et Accompagnem.t d'Orchestra (ou Orgue par Leprévost) ... [Full score]. Paris: Richault [PN 12675 R], [1853]. 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 210-252 pp. Engraved. First Edition, later issue. Scarce. From the collection of Italian conductor, vocal coach, and close associate of Puccini and Mascagni, Luigi Ricci (1893-1981). Handstamp of Richault to foot of both titles. Binding slightly worn and bumped; boards detached. Light scattered… Read More

Firenze: Ferd.o Lorenzi [PNs 3560-3571], 1845. Large oblong folio. Full modern green cloth, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto title within decorative border, verso blank), 1f. (recto table of contents, verso named cast list), 5-267 pp. Engraved. Uncut. Several leaves partially unopened. Each number with its own secondary pagination to upper margin. Named cast includes Cesare Badiali, Giuseppe Mori, Marietta Gazzaniga, Mazzarrini, Faustina Piombanti, Agostino Susini and Luigi Sanesi. Occasional light foxing, staining, and soiling; title and several leaves with minor tears and slight loss to blank margins; early tape repairs to verso of title; some leaves without primary pagination. An attractive, clean, and wide-margined copy overall. First Edition. Scarce. Schmidl, Vol. II, p. 1. Eudossia e Paolo, the first of Mabellini's two oratorios, was first performed in Florence at the Palazzo Vecchio on [?]24 June 1845, "for the benefit of a children's home, according to its printed libretto. The two-part… Read More

Firenze: Ferd.o Lorenzi [PN 3560-3571], 1845. Large oblong folio. Green cloth-backed marbled boards. 1f. (recto title within decorative border, verso blank), 1f. (recto named cast list, verso contents), 5-267 pp. Engraved. Each number with its own secondary pagination to upper margin. Named cast includes Cesare Badiali, Giuseppe Mori, Marietta Gazzaniga, Mazzarrini, Faustina Piombanti, Agostino Susin,i and Luigi Sanesi. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; upper nearly detached. Very slightly browned. First Edition. Scarce. Schmidl, Vol. II, p. 1. Eudossia e Paolo, the first of Mabellini's two oratorios, was first performed in Florence at the Palazzo Vecchio on June [?]24, 1845, "for the benefit of a children's home, according to its printed libretto. The two-part oratorio makes extensive use of chorus, far more so than does the typical Italian oratorio ... The work received several additional performances in Florence and Livorno." Howard E. Smither: A History of the Oratorio, Vol. 4, p. 620. "As a… Read More

London: Walter Scott, 1905. Octavo. Full dark brown cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto blank, verso bust-length photographic reproduction frontispiece portrait of MacFarran), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [v]-xiv (contents), 337, [i] pp. From the collection of Margaret Sutton, with her signature and date of 1905 to half-title and addition of two page references to index. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; spine frayed at head and tail with minor loss; lower joint split. Some browning, especially to outer edge of half-title; occasional foxing, including to title; hinges split. An English pianist and composer, MacFarren "was highly esteemed as a teacher and as a pianist, being regarded as 'a sound performer of the older school'." Nicholas Temperley in Grove Music Online. Sutton, a violinist, played some of MacFarren's works with him, including his romance, "Angelus.

London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Octavo. Boards. 282 pp. Head and tail of spine worn; endpapers browned. Browned throughout.

Cambridge: University Press, 1881. Quarto. 116 + 31 pp. publisher's catalog. Binding worn and spotted; hinges split. Slightly dusty internally but in very good condition overall. Together with a 2-page autograph letter from the author discussing aspects of counterpoint to an unnamed correspondent dated May 8, [18]83.

London: Cassell, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full teal blue cloth with titling gilt to spine. 269, [i] pp. In dustjacket. Edges foxed. First Edition.

London, Toronto: Routledge and Kegan Paul, University of Toronto Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full black cloth with titling to spine. 307 pp. With occasional illustrative plates. Binding slightly worn and spotted; minor foxing to endpapers and spotting to upper edge. In slightly worn dustjacket.

Montreal: McGill University, 1982. Octavo. Red illustrated wrappers. viii, 201, [i] (blank) pp. With occasional musical examples and illustrations in text. Wrappers slightly worn.

Octavo. 1 leaf only, with a short printed catalog of the author's works to verso. Extracted from the book. Slightly worn and browned. The dramas of the Belgian symbolist poet, essayist, and dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) inspired compositions by some of the most important composers of the twentieth century, including Fauré, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg, and Webern. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. Wisdom and Destiny, a lengthy essay, was first published in French as La sagesse et la destinée in 1898.

London: Faber and Faber, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 322 pp. In dustjacket. Ex-library.

Berlin: Paul Zsolnay, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 492 pp.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. xiii, 393 pp. Ex-library.

Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire, 1961. Paperback. Good. Small folio. Wrappers. xvii, 395 pp. With musical examples. Upper wrapper creased.

London: Grant Richards, E. P. Dutton, 1902. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 318 pp. Inscription to front endpaper. Binding worn. Browned.

London: Smith, Elder, 1899. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 152 pp. Binding, endpapers, and outer edges worn.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full light gray cloth with titling gilt to spine. 319 pp. With occasional illustrations and musical examples. In slightly worn dustjacket.

Milano: S.A. Edizioni Suvini-Zerboni [PN S. 539 Z], 1938. Folio. Original publisher's wrappers illustrated in color. 1f. (recto title, printer's note), [3] (index), [4]-27, [i] (blank) pp. Wrappers slightly soiled; spine reinforced with clear tape. Moderately browned. First Edition, second issue.

On card stock 60 x 98 mm., laid down to mounting sheet 85 x 119 mm. Malatesta is thought to have made debut in 1898 at the Teatro Quirino in Roma as Guritano in ''Ruy Blas.'' He sang at Covent Garden in London in 1914, joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1915 and sang there for many seasons.

Boston: C. C. Birchard & Company, 1925. Large quarto. Full dark red cloth library binding with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso copyright statement), 1f. (recto dedication, verso note), 64 pp. Binding worn and stained; remnants of library pocket to lower margin of front pastedown; front free endpaper lacking. Ex-library, with call number in white ink to spine and perforated stamps, handstamps, etc. throughout; several small tears, not affecting music. Malipiero "was the most original and inventive Italian composer of his generation." John C.G. Waterhouse.