Wagner, Richard / Corder, H.&F. (translators).

Text Books / Librettos for Nine Wagner Operas bound in four Volumes. Consisting of: Vol.1: Das Rheingold (The Rhine-Gold) & Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) / Vol.2: Siegfried & Götterdämmerung (The Dusk of the Gods) / Vol.3: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg) / Vol.4: Parsifal / Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg / Der Fliegende Holländer / Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen. Volumes 1-3 in GERMAN & ENGLISH. Volume 4 Plays are in GERMAN only!

Four uniform volumes. Mainz (Mayence) & Dresden, B.Shott’s Soehne & C.F. Meser. 1882, 1882, 1880, ND. c. 16 x 10 cm. Vol. 1: 75 & 75, 84 & 84 pages. Vol.2: 98 & 98, 86 & 86 pages. Vol. 3: 135 & viii, 135 pages. Vol. 4: 62, 42, 40 & 48 pages. Uniform red morroco with gilt titles on front boards. Blind and gilt line decorations. Name of previous owner (‘Queenie Mason’) on all four front boards in gilt. Decorative end papers. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Some plays slightly age darkened. Name of previous owner neatly inscribed. A very nice set in uniform bindings.

[Weill, Kurt] Kotschenreuther, Hellmut.

Kurt Weill.

Berlin, Max Hesses Verlag, 1962. 21.5cm x 15.2cm. 103 pages. With Illuatrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Wolkonsky, Prince Serge.

My Reminiscences.

First Edition. London, Hutchinson, [1924]. 23 x 15 cm. Vol.1: 313 pages w/ eight Illustrations / Vol.2: 276 pages w/ eight Illustrations -complete. Original dark blue cloth. Gilt titles. Inside original pale blue dust jackets, now inside clear archival jackets. Near fine in very good dust jackets. Losely inserted letter by Peter Wolkonsky M.D., dated 1992. Also losely inserted two newspaper clippings about the dicovery of the Tsarist graves in 1992. A very nice set. See images.