The First Night; Gilbert and Sullivan; Containing Complete Librettos of the Fourteen Operas, Exactly As Presented at Their Premiere Performances
by Allen, Reginald (editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0903443104
- ISBN 13
- 9780903443104
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Chappell & Co. [0-903443-10-4] 1958. (4to) 465pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Illustrations, sources, index. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn along the top, the spine and covers are lightly edgeworn and there are tiny pencil markings throughout the text. "The revised and emended centennial edition containing complete libretti of the fourteen operas exactly as presented at their premiere performances. Edited with a prologue, and with an introduction describing the performanec, and a postscript giving a capsule comparison to the text in recent libretti, for each opera". Book about Gilbert and Sullivan & Opera. Foreword by Bridget D'Oyly Carte. (Music, Libretti, Music Appreciation).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152100
- Title
- The First Night; Gilbert and Sullivan; Containing Complete Librettos of the Fourteen Operas, Exactly As Presented at Their Premiere Performances
- Author
- Allen, Reginald (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0903443104
- ISBN 13
- 9780903443104
- Publisher
- Chappell & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Music, Libretti, Music Appreciation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Entertainment;
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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