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Operetta: A Theatrical History (warmly inscribed by the author)
by Richard Traubner
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0385132328
- ISBN 13
- 9780385132329
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition (stated). Warmly inscribed by Traubner on the half-title page to theatrical producer Michael Shipley. Hardcover. xvii+ 461 pp. with index, bibliography. Fine in dust jacket with fade to the spine strip and some wear to the spine ends. Complete, richly illustrated history of operetta, that delightful form of musical theatre that has enraptured audiences for more than a century. Beginning with the one-act frivolities of Offenbach and Herve through the eras of Lecocq and Palnquette, Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, Noel Coward, Lerner and Loewe. Books signed by Traubner, famed New York and London Times feature writer and international theatre and film lecturer, are quite scarce.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GE16402
- Title
- Operetta: A Theatrical History (warmly inscribed by the author)
- Author
- Richard Traubner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385132328
- ISBN 13
- 9780385132329
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- stage, theater, theatre, musicals, gilbert and sullivan, musical theater, operetta,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre;
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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