Isbn: 9780460042949 - Opera in Perspective (5 results)

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Stamp mark to endpapers. Good DJ with some edge wear.

1st edition. 1980 1st edition with numerous musical examples; smart, tight binding; dust jacket not price-clipped with lightly worn edges; owner's name on front free endpaper; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Condition: Good. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, musical scales, 8vo.; Dust jacket browned at verso rear, stain on last endpaper.

H/c. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Editon. H/c. Very Good/Very Good. First Editon. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". pages 383, front end paper has been removed. the author traces the development of music drama from the rituals of primitive man, through Greek tragedy, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the 'first operas' of the early seventeenth century and continues discussing particular operas from different periods.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback, with dust wrapper. Maroon boards with lettering on the spine. Binding is neat and tidy. Whole book is tidy, with light thumbing on the page edges, free endpapers and pastedowns. Some discolouration and foxing on free endpapers, pastedowns and the occasional page, albeit light, otherwise this book is in good condition. Dustjacket is moderately thumbed. Spine rubbed and sunned a little, else in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound. …