New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1961]. Hardcover. This Modern Library edition includes both a biography of the great German composer, as well as a section offering a brief description (including some musical notations) of most of his major works. With index of names to be found in this volume. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 405 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1961 (though 1943 date appears in book). ML #241.2. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down and with some dulling to cover gilding, else a well-preserved, clean, tightly bound copy. Price-clipped jacket with scuffing to extremities (especially at head of spine), otherwise bright, intact and protected in archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; viii, 469, (2, ads) pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 86801
Title: The Life and Works of Beethoven (Modern Library #241.2)
Author: BURK, John N
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: [c.1961]
Bookseller catalogs: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;

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12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...