An Intimate Celebration of Opera Australia. Photographs by Bridget Elliot. Prelude by Dame Joan Sutherland. Pp. x+246(last blank), frontispiece, plus numerous text illustrations (many full page), index; square 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, the lower wrapper faintly scuffed; Opera Australia/Currency Press, Sydney, 2006. First edition. *'Everything that goes into bringing..... More
Pp. 96(last blank), frontispiece; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, faintly scuffed; text block faintly browned; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1985. First edition. *A paperback original. Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon was first performed at Covent Garden in 1826, with 'an execrable libretto by Planche which has..... More
Pp. xvi+352, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, indices; tall demy 4to; boards a trifle scuffed; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, backstrip slightly faded; Cassell, Sydney, 1977. First edition. More
Interviews and Reports Compiled and Adapted by Wolfgang Haefeli. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Pp. 268, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, appendices, bibliography; square 4to; fore-corners of lower board lightly bruised; dust wrapper; Chartwell Books, Inc., [Secaucus, New Jersey], 1976. Reprinted. *'Bringing together for the first time..... More
A biography. Pp. viii+386, 8 plates, notes & sources, index; post 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, a trifle sprung, the bottom fore-corners lightly creased; text block faintly browned at edges; Black Inc., Melbourne, 2010. Paperback edition, reprinted. *Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. More
Pp. viii+392(last blank), 8 plates, notes and sources, index; small med. 8vo; qr. cream cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, mustard papered boards; dust wrapper; Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2009. First U.S. edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. More
Pp. [vi]+252, coloured frontispiece portrait, numerous black & white illustrations (some full page), index; demy 4to; maroon boards, lettered and ruled in gilt; dust wrapper; the author, Coombe Cottage, Melbourne, 2000. Second edition. *Originally published by Phoebe Publishing, in 1996. Melba was the author's grandmother. More
Text by Martin Mayer. Gerald Fitzgerald career chronology, recorded repertory, photo editor, captions. Foreword by Herbert von Karajan. Pp. 224, 30 coloured plates (2 double page), numerous black & white illustrations; med. 4to; fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Robert..... More
Special photography by Judith Kovacs, Robin Matthew and Mirella Ricciardi. Pp. 160, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full page), index; med. 4to; tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1992. First Australian edition..... More
Compiled by Joan Sutherland with Richard Bonynge. Tribute by Luciano Pavarotti. Pp. 192(last blank), frontispiece, numerous text illustrations; med. 4to; top fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Craftsman House, Sydney, 1986. First edition. More
Introduction by Dame Joan Sutherland. Pp. 256, 16 plates, appendices, discography, selected bibliography, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the spine extremities and bottom edge of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Macdonald/Queen Anne Press, London, 1987. First edition. More
Introductions by Richard Bonynge and the Earl of Harewood. Foreword by Edmund Capon. Pp. 128, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, printed endpapers, list of performances, bibliography; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Art Gallery of New South Wales/Honeysett Publications, Sydney, 1989. First edition..... More
Pp. 192, frontispiece plus 10 plates, pictorial endpapers, list of recordings; edges of boards lightly rubbed, the bottom fore-corners slightly frayed; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; bookseller's stamp at foot of upper pastedown, name in..... More