Garrison Mabel (3 results)
Published by World Book Company, New York And Chicago 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Confetti Antiques & Books, Spanish Fork, UT, U.S.A.Confetti Antiques & Books
Contact seller3-star sellerHardcover. Hardcover book is aged, with wear to corners and edges. Covers are; book is ex-library with usual markings.; ; Story-World Readers; 5.5" x 7.5"; 112 pages Good+ rubbed but pages and covers are tight. Some light underlinings throughout book. Illustrated by Mabel Betsy Hill (illustrator).
- Signed
Seller: J & J LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS LLC, Syosset, NY, U.S.A.J & J LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerOn an album leaf 5.5" x 8" (140 x 204 mm.): I am very happy to add mine to your collection of autographs." Autograph laid down to mounting sheet at corners of verso; photograph slightly worn, with remnants of adhesive to verso. "[Garrison] joined the Metropolitan Opera. making her official début as Frasquita in Carmen in Novembe…r 1914. She only attracted real attention, however, when she substituted at short notice for Raymonde Delaunois as Urbain in Les Huguenots the following month. Similarly, she made a fine impression two years later when she replaced Frieda Hempel as the Queen of Night, and she scored her greatest success as the Queen of Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, covering for Maria Barrientos, in 1918." Philip L. Miller in Grove Music Online. Herman Mishkin (1870-1948) served as the Metropolitan Opera's official portraitist from 1908-1932, producing an important body of work documenting "The Golden Age of Opera.". Signed.
- Signed
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerMetropolitan Opera prima donna who sopranoed there for many seasons. Wonderful IPS, 8" X 10", n.p., n.d. [dated 1926 on verso in another hand]. Near fine. Superb sepia tone head-and-shoulders portrait of the smiling soprano, inscribed big and bold "To Mr. John Leiser / with best wishes from / Mabel Garrison." A choice example.
