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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Standard Violin Concertos the Whole World Plays: Violin Part. New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. First edition. Quarto (9¼ × 12 in.), publisher's cream wraps with cloth spine, printed in black with Appleton crest. [iv], 244 pp. Includes ten masterworks of the violin repertoire: Bach (A minor), Beethoven (Op. 61), Brahms (Op. 77), Bruch (Op. 26), Lalo (Symphonie Espagnole), Mendelssohn (Op. 64), Paganini (Op. 6), Saint-Saëns (Op. 61), Tchaikovsky (Op. 35), and Wieniawski (Op. 22). Edited in faithful alignment with the original foreign editions, incorporating phrasing and fingerings in consultation with violinist Franz Kneisel. Condition: Very Good. Binding tight and square; cloth spine professionally reinforced; light toning to wraps with minor edgewear and a few small chips; interior clean and unmarked. A well-preserved copy of this scarce 1924 Appleton first issue from the Whole World Plays series - an important interwar anthology of standard concertos prepared for performance and study use. Franz Kneisel (1865-1926) was a Romanian-born violinist and conductor who profoundly shaped American concert life. As concertmaster of the Boston Symphony and founder of the renowned Kneisel Quartet, he championed chamber music across the United States and later joined the faculty of the Institute of Musical Art (now Juilliard). His editorial oversight on this Appleton series lends the collection rare authority, combining European performance tradition with early American pedagogical clarity.