"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke

New York, NY: Random House, 1956. [Opera] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 108. With three illustrations by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver and coloured titles to spine, and decorative paper over boards. Top edge black and light green endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Ter-Arutunian, priced at £3.50. Cricket themed bookplate of Stephen Levinson to front pastedown. Gently toned throughout. Jacket lightly rubbed to edges and sunned to spine. Very good. A new English translation of Mozart's brilliant libretti, originally broadcast on television by NBC to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. Item #60631
Price: £50.00