Wagner Cosima Edited (8 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. First edition. 8vo, 1199 pp. Slight curve to spine, light soiling to page edges, remainder stripe on bottom edge. Jacket handled, scuffed, edgeworn, with chipping at folds, small tear to top of front fold.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, large 8vo, 614pp, text in French, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, large 8vo, 744pp, text in French, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2 Volume Set. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First editions. Thick octavos. 1,199pp., 1,200pp. Two volume set. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. Near fine with volume one having newspaper offsetting on rear endpaper, a few pages wrinkled in a very good lightly scuffed dustwrapper with edges worn and chipped, volume two is also near fine in a very good dustwrapper with spine ends nicked.…

First Edition. Two volumes Edges a little darkened and dusty, otherwise nice copies in dust-wrappers which are faded in places; ownership signature in volume I.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Stated First Edition. PROTEAN: VERTIGINOUSLY DRAMATIC: INTIMATE: TERRIFYING: COLLECTIBLE: RARE: INDISPENSABLE: COMPLETE, DETAILED, UNSURPASSED * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A Genuine publishing event . a historical document of unsurpassed interest." -TLS. "Perhaps the most complete & detailed account of the life of a working artist that musical literature provides." -Gordon A Craig. "These volumes 'humanize' both their writer & their hero, humanize them not in the sense of making them congenial, but by grounding them in their deepest, often unconscious experiences & terrifying conflicts. This diary will prove a treasure for the musicologist, the biographer, the cultural historian--& the pathologist." -Peter Gay * NEW: COMPLETE (Two-Volume Set, Boxed): Wagner, Cosima: COSIMA WAGNER'S DIARIES: Volume I: 1869-1877 & Volume II: 1878-1883; Edited & Annotated by Martin Gregor-Dellin & Dietrich Mack; Translated w/ An Introduction & Afterword by Geoffrey Skelton * BOTH volumes w/ NEW handsomely-designed durable "gold-foil" jackets on heavy stock w/ sharp NEW edges & corners &* unclipped flyleaves showing orig. $24.95 prepublication prices of $24.95 (to December 31, 1978, thereafter $29.95)), BOTH volumes w/ library-durable mauve-brown linen-over-boards covers w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles handsomely gold-stamped on spines, BOTH volumes w/ IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, BOTH volumes w/ NEW perfect bindings w/ tight sheets & maroon-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, BOTH volumes w/ bright-white card-stock end-papers, BOTH volumes w/ PRISITNE interiors printed w/ the greatest ELEGANCE, CARE, & CLARITY on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper, the two-volumes protectively housed in a FINE slipcase marred only by some slight scuffing of its bottom edge & the faintest touch of slightest wear (no bumping or bruising) of its rear corners * Volume I:1869-1877 (0151226350): 6.24" x 9.48" x 2.36", 1.84 kg, 1,200 pp; Volume II: 1878-1883 (0151226350): 6.24" x 9.48" x 2.36", 1.84 kg, 1,200 pp; The Compete Set, Slip-cased: 6.34" x 9.86" x 5.00", 4.02 kg, 2,400 pp * ABOUT THE BOOKS: In the words of George Steiner writing for The Sunday Times: "The publication of the diaries of Cosima Wagner is a major event. We have copious journals kept by artists about their own works and days (Virgina Woolf, for example). We have letters such as those by Van Gogh in which an artist pours out the inmost of his existence. But we have no day-to-day intimate record of the life of a master of Wagner's stature during a period of creation at all comparable to Cosima's. This is, therefore, a document of intrinsic fascination, & a treasure-trove for anyone interested in Wagner, in the psychology of great artists, in the history of music, in the course of European social & political history during the latter 19th century. It is no overstatement whatever to say that it will take a generation of close reading before the wealth of material in this diary, & the historical & psychological issues it raises, are absorbed. Life crowds in on us from these pages, under pressure of genius. It is a banner year for the exact remembrance of great things past." The POSTSCRIPT by Geoffrey Skelton gives the medical details of Wagner's death & a brief report on Cosima's reaction to her loss, since her diary entries stop w/ the day of Richard Wagner's death, never to be resumed. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this superb 2-volume boxed set for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & (due its weight) via MANDATORY USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORITY AIRMAIL to international destinations at below-cost rates quoted on request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1278, 1315 pages. 10 x 6.75 inches. The binding is tight. Bound in brown cloth, the boards are flawless. Pages are clean, intact, and flawless. The dust jacket on volume 1 is torn at the top spine end as well as at the top of the covers near the foreedges. Volume 2's been sunned along the spine and along the top and bottom of the front and rear covers. The cardboard slipcases are intact and slightly sunned. Cosima Wagner was the second wife of legendary composer Richard Wagner. This collection of diaries was gifted by Cosima's daughter-in-law, Winifred Wagner, and includes a signed gift letter.…