Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st American Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Seller Inventory # 0394434528-7-1-29
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0394434528I5N01
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0394434528I3N00
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition. Boards faintly soiled, jacket lightly toned, ink name on front endpaper. 1971 Hard Cover. xii, 336, xi pp. English translation by Herbert Weinstock. Chailley, a professor of music history at the Sorbonne, reveals the coherence of the opera and the hidden significance of its characters and situations. The author relates each of these elements to the esoteric tradition from which they emanate and to Mozart's own involvement with the Masonic brotherhood. Seller Inventory # 2346456
Seller: Book Bear, West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 336 pp. +XI. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. Published April 1971. First Edition / First printing. Dust jacket not price clipped. Seller Inventory # 026805
Seller: Birkitt's Books, SARASOTA, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Jacket has minimal wear, binding tight, internally clean. Includes errata slip. In this extraordinary book, Jacques Chailley has succeeded brilliantly in using research and minutely detailed textual study to solve one of music's most notorious mysteries and to disprove on of its most baseless libels. Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is universally recognized as a great masterpiece - and almost as universally accused of suffering from an incomprehensible, if not silly, libretto. Professor Chailley fascinatingly demonstrates (with myriad examples from both the libretto and the music) that, far from making nonsense, the opera is crowded with the most profound meanings. Having demonstrated the inconsistency of the legend according to which the "stupidity" of the plot resulted from a midstream change of plan, he displays the coherence of the opera, uncovers the interrelated hidden significance of its characters and situations, and relates them all to the great cosmic myths of the esoteric tradition from which they emanate. Under the illumination so engagingly supplied by Professor Chailley, The Magic Flute emerges as it really is: a rigorously constructed theater piece in which Mozart's wonderful music and the libretto by Emanual Shikaneder (and others) fulfill and clarify one another. This is constructive scholarship at its most readable best - in a book that is alive with the atmosphere of eighteenth-century Vienna and with fascinating men and women, from sages and royal personages to grimy scoundrels, who supply many curious sidelights on politics, music, literature, religion, and Freemasonry. Seller Inventory # 241215103
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First American Edition. a very nice copy. erratum slip laid in. an interpretation of the libretto and the music. hidden meanings revealed. Seller Inventory # 014300
Seller: Veronica's Books, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 336pp + Index. Gilt-stamped purple cloth with turquoise top edges, mylar-protected dust jacket. Book. Seller Inventory # 050915
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. First American Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Toning on spine.; 336 pages. Seller Inventory # 331153
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # 73U62_69_0394434528