Hurst, P. G.

The Age of Jean de Reszke: Forty Years of Opera 1874 - 1914

London: Christopher Johnson, [1958]. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. Hardcover, bound in green cloth, with a gold and white jacket. Book and jacket in very good condition. Mild foxing to page edges, endpapers and a few other pages; jacket is price-clipped and mildly rubbed and has some tiny chipping along the upper and lower edges. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #640

A season-by-season account of forty years of London opera and its various performers, including de Reszke, Patti, Albani, Maurel, Melba, Scotti, Caruso, and Destinn. Illustrated with 32 black-and-white plates.

Price: $45.00