Doubleday, Date: 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition (stated). Warmly inscribed by Traubner on the half-title page to theatrical producer Michael Shipley. Hardcover. xvii+ 461 pp. with index, bibliography. Fine in dust jacket with fade to the spine strip and some wear to the spine ends. Complete, richly illustrated history of operetta, that delightful form of musical theatre that has enraptured audiences for more than a century. Beginning with the one-act frivolities of Offenbach and Herve through the eras of Lecocq and Palnquette, Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, Noel Coward, Lerner and Loewe. Books signed by Traubner, famed New York and London Times feature writer and international theatre and film lecturer, are quite scarce. 1983. Doubleday ISBN 0385132328 9780385132329 [US]

ISBN10: 0385132328, ISBN13: 9780385132329, [publisher: Doubleday, Garden City] Hardcover Dust jacket price clipped, gift inscription front endpaper, pages clean, binding is tight. From the inside flap: Operetta! Flowing champagne, ceaseless waltzing, risque lyrics, Ruritanian uniforms and glittering ballgowns, romancing and dancing! Gaiety, extravagance, passionate love duets. Here at last is a complete, richly illustrated history of operetta, that delightful form of musical theatre which enraptured audiences around the world for more than a century, and which is now regaining popularity. Camille Saint-Saens called operetta "the daughter of opera-comique who went astray. not that daughters who astray are without charm.^" To^ fegUmiatize this charming daugh^ Rfchardfraubner has written athea^^ S^r'yTo7eret^m^h^^ ^^sss. SEE5^;
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Garden City: Doubleday & Co, Date: 1983. 1st Edition. xvii, 416p., b/w illus., dj. 1983. Doubleday & Co ISBN 0385132328 9780385132329 [US]

Doubleday, Date: 1983-09. Hardcover. Good. 1983. Doubleday ISBN 0385132328 9780385132329 [US]

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 0385132328 9780385132329 [US]

Doubleday & Company, Date: 1983. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Hardbound with dust jacket. Clear protective cover over jacket; not ex-library. Pages unmarked, gentle wear. 1983. Doubleday & Company ISBN 0385132328 9780385132329 [US]