COSIMA WAGNER
first edition
1930 · NY
by MOULIN-ECKART, Ruchard count du
NY: Knopf, 1930. First American edn. Two vols. 8vo, pp. 892, ix. Translated by Chatherine Alison Phillips, with an introduction by Ernest Newman. Illustrated. Flyleaves missing on both vols., o/w VG. The daughter of Franz Liszt, Cosima met Wagner when she was already married to Hans von Bulow. The author's thesis is that much of Wagner's output and success would have been impossible without Cosima. (Inventory #: 27064)