Operamania by Robin: Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Pink cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine; original pictorial dust jacket. [1966]. Signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper; previous owner's inscription also on front endpaper. Boards have light wear and sunning to edges; gutter is cracked but text block intact; dust jacket has moderate toning, soiling and chipping at spine. An homage to the "operamaniac" and some of the great artists of opera. ; B & W Illustrations & Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 92 pp; Signed by Author.…

First Edition. [Opera Appreciation] FIRST EDITION, with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the author. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[8] 92 [4]. With occasional black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's cyan paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Also with a typed letter from the author on headed note paper, dated September 1974, signed 'your very sincerely | Robin May' in blue ink. Blue ink ownership and a label mark to fly-leaf. A Bristol bookseller's label to front pastedown. Price-clipped jacket toned to spine, with light wear and a few closed tear to edges. Very good. A book for the Opera enthusiast, presenting rare anecdotes and opinions about mid-twentieth-century singers and performances. May's letter is a wild and effusive reply to some very positive fan mail, commencing 'Yours is the best and most enjoyable letter I have ever received, not only on music, but about anything.'. Signed.…