Author: HOWARD, JOHN TASKER
Title: The World's Great Operas: Newly Enlarged Edition (Modern Library First Edition, ML #302. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0792233735. Stated first Modern Library edition, 1959. A summary of the plots and characters of the great operas. With indexes of ".plots and characters, the composers and librettists of operas both familiar and obscure, classical and modern, European and American." --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 388 titles in ML catalog. ML #302.1. --- With partially-removed bookplate on front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, clean copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing and small tears to edges but remaining bright and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxxi, 572 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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