The Beggar's Opera, to Which is Prefixed the Musick to Each Song [With Two Programs for the 1922 Performance At the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House]

Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1921

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Color Plates; musical notation and drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 93 pages; 1921 Doubleday, Page & Company. HC 1st American edition, from plates printed in London. Soundly bound in original quarter black cloth backed spine and glazed yellow paper covered boards with paper title labels to cover and spine. Prior owner's engraved pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Laid in at front are two different sized and designed programs from the same two week run Oct 16-28, 1922 at the Philadelphia Metroploitan Opera House. Both programs light worn, include cast, synopsis, details and photos along with local ads. Book is illustrated with tissue guarded color plates from art by Foster and with musical notation and drawings. Yellow paper over boards slightly rubbed through at corner tips; hinges a little tender. VG-.

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Title
The Beggar's Opera, to Which is Prefixed the Musick to Each Song [With Two Programs for the 1922 Performance At the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House]
Author
Gay, John; Claud Lovat Fraser (Costumes and Illust) & John Drinkwater (Intro)
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company, New York
Publication year
1921
Condition
Very Good-
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First American Edition.
Seller catalogs
Music and Musicians, Philadelphia, Theater & Drama

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