Handel at the Court of Kings

Opal Wheeler

Edité par E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1943

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Stated First Edition, rare with the dust jacket. You can see the covers of the book in the photos. There's a little bit of tanning or soiling on the white part of the front cover. The black lettering on the spine is nicely bright. There is a bit of the usual crinkling at the spine ends, some color fade as well. The rear cover looks very good, just a small crease and its top corner. On the rear bottom edge a little bit of the blue has been smoothly rubbed off. The corners have only speck-sized spots of rub-through. The spine has a moderate forward lean, mostly at the top, but the book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The inside covers and their facing end papers form the same black-and-white illustration. The front inside cover has some tan spotting. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I didn't find any instances of soiling. I didn't see any conspicuous creasing. There is a bit of crinkling on a few early pages. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. The book has a nice combination of text, illustrations, and music. The text pages number is 135 pages. That's followed by 30 unnumbered pages of music. All are in excellent condition. The dust jacket is in quite decent condition, particularly given its age and genre. There is a small loss at the top edge of the spine which does not reach the lettering, and a thin tear just off the top edge of the front beside the spine. There is a tear off the front bottom edge just adjacent to the corner. There is also a tiny tear off the front bottom edge and another tiny one off the rear top edge. There is a small, light stain on the rear cover just adjacent to the spine. The flaps are in solid shape, no soiling, one teeny tiny tear off the front flap's bottom edge. All four corners are clipped, but the price is present and unaffected. I've always had the jacket in a fitted protective cover. From the dust jacket: 'With clarity and with admirable simplicity keyed to the understanding of children, Opal Wheeler has traced the many-sided career of George Frederic Handel, whose restless nature vied always with his tremendous ability as a composer and director. Handel's strange boyhood, clouded by the fact that his father did not want him to become a musician, and the later years when, thanks to the patronage of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, his music was played before the greatest music lovers of Europe-- all this makes absorbing reading. The selections of Handel's music included here are those best understood and most apt to be mastered by young musicians. Opal Wheeler has given us here the most finished, most completely satisfying book on her fast-growing list of find music biographies. Handel at the Court of Kings should be a favorite of all children who love music, whether they are young musicians themselves or not.'.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Handel at the Court of Kings
• Éditeur: E. P. Dutton & Co., New York
• Date de parution: 1943
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Mary Greenwalt
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Music
  • Biography
  • Children's Books or Juvenile Fiction