Toscanini: A Biography SIGNED FIRST EDITION
New York: Atheneum, 1975.
First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by George R. Marek and inscribed to previous owner in ink at front free endpaper, dated 12/25/75. Stated First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". xiv, 321pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in red cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in blind and spine lettered in gilt. Toning, rubbing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Faint toning to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A presentable signed first edition in admittedly very worn but present original dust jacket.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
The book is an attempt to "tell about this man Toscanini" by one who was him on good and bad days, who Worked with him, who discussed him with musicians, with friends, with enemies--and who loved him wholeheartedly. It is not at all a "technical" book about conducting. It is rather a biography of an effulgent personality and an analysis of a man who shed so intense a light that both experts and casual music-lovers were dazzled by it.(Publisher). Good / good. Item #12426
ISBN: 0689106556
Price: $20.00