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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Book is clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tall 8vo. First FS edition. ppI-XIV(2*)XV-XX(2)614(2) with colour frontispiece portrait of the composer, portrait* of Thayer between pages XIV & XV, colour & monochrome plate sections, list of Beethoven's works, and index; pictorial endpapers. Quarter maroon cloth with green cloth-covered boards, backstrip titled in gilt, front board with oval portrait of the composer after a 19th century engraving. No dust jacket as issued. Gap between head of backstrip and top edge of text-block, the pink top edge faded towards attached headband. Binding and contents otherwise fine. VERY GOOD+ copy in VERY GOOD+ slipcase with a couple of minor little bumps.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** A very nice copy in slipcase without flaw. 6.5 10.25" 614 pages Weight 1.5 Kg. With 46 illustrations, decorated end pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent Slipcase. First Folio Society Edition. SPLENDID: NEW hardcover (orig. 2001, 3rd printing 2004), EXCELLENT rich-brown slipcase, the volume quarter-bound by Cambridge University Press in rust-brown Feincanvas extending 1.0" to HANDSOME engraved gilt-rule & front & back panels SUMPTUOUSLY covered in spring-green Feincanvas w/ "Beethoven" BEAUTIFULLY gilt-stamped on spine & w/ 19th century engraving by an unidentified artist of Ludwig van Beethoven cameoed in gilt border on front panel, end-paper illustrations (manuscript scores by Ludwig van Beethoven), frontispiece (Beethoven composing his Missa Solemnis, by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820), 41 further illustrations, IMMACULATE text-block exterior, PRISTINE interior EXQUISITELY typeset in Granjon & printed on SUPERB St Paul's Wove paper * 6.25" x 10.0", 1.10 kg (in slipcase), xx+614 (634) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: A BEAUTIFUL copy of a handsomely-designed and stunningly well-produced edition of among the greatest classics of musical biography. "This superb slip-cased edition of a great classic is a splendid choice as a presentation-gift copy or for addition to any Beethoven collection." - John Letterman, for Mnemosyne.…