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Bruxelles: Cranz. Large 8vo, pp. 37. Paper wraps. Cover chipped and yellowed, front separated, o/w VG.

Boosey and Hawkes, 1962. Fair condition Softcover Quarto, 1962, revised English text. Exterior sunned, rubbed, soiled. Interior has many alternate lyrics in pencil. RARE. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Fair. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Book.

G. Schirmer, 1959. Unknown Binding. Very Good. Nice looking book, has minor edge wear.cover is faded. has price label on front cover.

London: Josef Weinberger Ltd., 1977. 237pp; music by Strauss, adapted and arranged by Ronald Hanmer, lyrics by Phil Park, new libretto by Phil Park & Conrad Carter, original libretto by Ig. Schnitzer; burgundy covers, white title, light edgewear.. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

[?New York]: Boosey and Hawkes [PN BH BK. 435], 1962. Small folio. Original publisher's dark orange illustrated wrappers. 1f. (recto title, copyright), 1f. (recto cast, verso instrumentation), 2ff. (contents and summary), 232 pp. Wrappers slightly worn and rubbed. Minor internal wear. First performed in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien on 24 October 1885, with text by I. Schnitzer after M. Jókai's Saffi. "Certainly Strauss was no judge of librettos and throughout his life he found it both cumbersome and restricting to compose to prescribed texts, though with Der Zigeunerbaron (1885) he showed himself uncharacteristically adept in this. Over the next quarter of a century a further 14 operettas and even a grand opera (Ritter Pásmán, 1892) cemented Strauss's position as the leading light in 'Silver Age' Viennese operetta, though even in the composer's lifetime only three of these found international success: Die Fledermaus (1874), Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) and Der Zigeunerbaron." Peter Kemp in… Read More