Nilsson Birgit, First Edition (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked copy with solid, crease-free spine. Slight ripple due to awkward packaging rather than any element. BP/Classical/Divas.

worn dust-jacket with a few small tears, cover price $24.95, good worn used copy, hardccover with black spine, brown boards, glue binding visible at end of photo section, gently read copy, about 5 pages are double printed but remain fully readable, apparently a printing error. INSCRIBED on half-title page For Robert - My beloved colleague in the Coffin league - with much affection, and SIGNED Shirlee (perhaps a reference to Berton Coffin, mentioned in acknowledgments p. xvi). EMMONS, SHIRLEE. Tristanissimo: the authorized biography of heroic tenor Lauritz Melchior. Foreword by Birgit Nilsson. New York : London: Schirmer Books ; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1990, 1st printing number line starting with 1, xvi, 462pp., . CONTENTS: Da Capo : "En Kĝben havner Dreng" (1890-1905 -- Training as a baritone (1905-1916) -- Metamorphosis : baritone into tenor (1916-1922) -- A Bayreuth beginning (1923-1924) -- Frin Bayreuth beginning (1923-1924) -- From Bayreuth to the world (1924-1927) -- The metropolitan debut (1926-1927) -- Learning Tristan (1927-1930) -- Tristanissimo (1929-1931) -- The wagnerian ensemble at the met (1931-1935) -- The golden years (1935-1939) -- Hitler interferes (1939-1941) -- Another legendary partnership : Melchoir and Traubel (1941-1946) -- From opera star to movie star (1943-1946) -- The hottest dane since Beowulf (1946-1949) -- A dream unrealized (1949-1950) -- Melchoir and the Heldentenor crisis (1960-1972) -- "Leb' wohl, mein Held" (1973-1974). 9780028730608 ISBN 0028730607.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Photograph. One of a set of photographs sent to William Granger for his book, "We Proudly Sang at the Met". An 8 1/2 x 7" photograph portrait of Nilsson in elaborate costume, signed. Signed by Author(s).

Pappband. Condition: Sehr gut. Erste Auflage. 128 S.; mit zahlr. SW-Fotos Size: 30,5 cm.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Original cloth, fine. Dust jacket with some wear to crown of spine, original price intact. Inscribed and signed on the half-title: "To Frank. With Best Wishes, Birgit Nilsson." Scarce signed.