first edition Hardcover
1938 · New York
by JOHNSON, Edward
New York: Metropolitan Opera Guild, 1938. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Quarto. 68pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pictorial papercovered boards. Extremities worn and chipped, loss of cloth spine, a good only copy, lacking the dustwrapper. An obscure association copy Signed on the front fly by renowned Danish-American Opera singer Lauritz Melchior along with Barbara Kantzer (unknown). Melchior is pictured with Kirsten Flagstad after their performance in *Tristan und Isolde* and attending a Guild party with Lawrence Gilman, Mrs. August Belmont, Lawrence Tibbett, Mrs. Walter Sands Marvin, and Mrs. Herbert Witherspoon. (Inventory #: 122197)