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	1	(Wagner, Richard). Aldrich, Richard. A GUIDE TO THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG: The Trilogy of Richard Wagner. Its Origin, Story, and Music. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, (1905). - Octavo, cloth. The covers are bumped & rubbed. The head & tail of the spine are chipped. xiii & 125 pp. The hinges are cracked. There is an owner's ink inscription on the front endpaper with an attractive bookplate on the front pastedown. Illustrated with music staves. A good working copy. Price: 15.00 USD
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	2	Newman, Ernest. (1869-1959). English music critic. His magnum opus was The Life of Richard Wagner in four volumes. AUTOGRAPH LETTER in response to a query about the later life of Cosima Wagner. Tadworth, Surrey, U.K.: 8.4.49 - Small quarto. The letter is penned on two closely written sides of a sheet of his personalized letterhead, 7 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide, with his Surrey address printed at the top. Signed "Yours sincerely, Ernest Newman". The top left corner is lightly creased. Folded 3 times for mailing. Together with a mailing envelope addressed in his hand and a carbon copy of his correspondent's letter. Very good. Newman is replying to an admirer of his Wagner biography who has written to ask if he knows of any work in English about the life of Cosima Wagner after the death of her husband. She also asks if he knows what is happening with the theatre at Bayreuth. He is unable to suggest any works in English on the later life of Cosima Wagner. He goes on: "The last I heard of the Bayreuth theatre was that it was being put to a variety of purposes--dramas, films, "shows" of all kinds--and that the vast stage apparatus had been mostly looted or destroyed. Wahnfried [Wagner's villa] is pretty well in ruins, as the result of a direct hit by an American bomb. / Winifred Wagner was tried by a de-Nazification court three years or so [ago?], & sentenced to a heavy fine & loss of certain civil rights. It's all very sad. / There has been much talk about trying to revive the theatre, posibly under international control; but the difficulties are many & great, & I am not sanguine as to anything coming of it all." Price: 150.00 USD
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Wagner, Richard. BRIEFE AN HANS VON BULOW.
Jena, Germany: Eugen Diederichs, 1916.
- 8vo, cream cloth backed decorative blue paper covered boards (bumped; edges of boards slightly rubbed; cloth slightly soiled) titled in gilt within blue medallion on spine & in gilt within decorative gilt frame on front cover. XLII, [ii] & 278 pp. plus colophon (page edges slightly darkened). Very good.

First edition.

Text in German.
Price: 45.00 USD

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	4	(Wagner, Richard). Heline, Corinne. ESOTERIC MUSIC / Based on the Musical Seership of Richard Wagner. Los Angeles, CA: New Age Press, (1948). - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. There is some light spotting to the rear cover & the spine is faded. 274 pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated wih 3 black-and-white plates. Very good. First edition. Price: 20.00 USD
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	5	(Wagner, Richard). Newman, Ernest. FACT AND FICTION ABOUT WAGNER. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. - Octavo, blue cloth. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some small, light stains to the front cover. The spine is faded with the head & tail lightly chipped & frayed. xvii, 317 & [1] pages. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece. The book is lightly cracked at the half-title. Mild ex-library with a library blind stamp & a deacquisition stamp on the title. Good. Price: 10.00 USD
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Wagner, Richard. GEDICHTE.
Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1905.
- Octavo, limp brown cloth titled in gilt with decorations in gilt on the spine & in gilt within a decorative gilt frame on the front cover; the top edge is gilt. The covers are lightly bumped & there is a tiny tear to the cloth on the front edge of the rear cover. xiv, [i], 185 & [1] pages. A very attractive copy.

First edition. The text is in German.

The attractive bookplate of Alfons Baumgarten is mounted on the front pastedown.
Price: 50.00 USD

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(Wagner, Richard). Harding, Bertita. MAGIC FIRE: Scenes Around Richard Wagner.
Indianapolis/NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., (1953).
- 8vo, cloth. 451 pp. B&W plates. (Ink name & magazine photo of author tipped-in on verso of frontispiece). Good.

First edition.

Wagner and Minna Wagner, Mathilde Wesendonk, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Cosima Wagner.
Price: 15.00 USD

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	8	(Wagner, Richard). Wallace, William. RICHARD WAGNER / AS HE LIVED. New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1925. - Octavo, dark blue cloth with a printed paper label on the spine. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed & the head & tail of the spine are faded. x, [1] leaf & 313 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. There is an owner's ink inscription on the front endpaper & the verso of the title page is slightly soiled. Very good. Price: 10.00 USD
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	9	Wagner, Richard. RICHARD WAGNER'S LEBENS-BERICHT. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe von The Work and Mission of My Life by Richard Wagner. Leipzig: Verlag von Edwin Schloemp, 1884. - Octavo, gray wraps printed in maroon. The wraps are darkened with pieces out & there are small red stains to the front wrap. The backstrip is perished with pieces out & the front wrap, which is detached, has been reattached with scotch tape. 103 pages plus publisher's 1-page catalog. The bottom corner of the last leaf is chipped & there are a few red pencil underlinings & markings. Fair working copy. Distributed by the publisher Louis Vertel of Hannover. The text is in German. Price: 45.00 USD
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	10	(Wagner, Richard). Runciman, John F. RICHARD WAGNER: COMPOSER OF OPERAS. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913. - 8vo, green cloth (bumped; tiny white marks to bottom corner of front cover; spine somewhat faded & lightly stained with head & tail chipped) titled in gilt on spine with double frame stamped in gilt on front cover. xv, [i] & 427 pp. (hinges cracked; owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown; 2 leaves roughly cut with piece out of front edge of 1 leaf & short tear to the other; occasional soiling & staining; page edges darkened). B&W portrait frontispiece & 7 B&W plates. Good reading copy. A life of Wagner with chapters on each of his operas. Price: 20.00 USD
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	11	(Wagner, Richard). Henderson, W. J. RICHARD WAGNER: HIS LIFE AND HIS DRAMAS. A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The top edge is gilt. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. viii, [1] leaf & 504 pages plus 4-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece with a tissue guard & with music staves. 1 bottom page corner is creased. There is offsetting to the tissue guard with very light offsetting to the title page & there is occasional light foxing. Very good. Later printing. Price: 20.00 USD
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Wagner, Richard. SELECTIONS FROM THREE ESSAYS BY RICHARD WAGNER with Comment on a Subject of Such Importance to the Moral Progress of Humanity that it Constitutes an Issue in Ethics and Religion.
(The Millennium Guild, 1954).
- Octavo, light gray cloth titled in purple with a music stave in purple on the front cover. The covers are soiled & lightly bumped and the spine slightly stained. 144 pages, illustrated with a black & white portrait of M. R. L. Freshel. The stamp of the "Anti-Vivisection Society of N.Y." is stamped on the front endpaper. There is some craking to the hinges. Good.

Third edition.

Writings by Wagner on the subject of animal rights with numerous quotations from other authors.
Price: 20.00 USD

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(Wagner, Richard). Lavignac, Albert. THE MUSIC DRAMAS OF RICHARD WAGNER AND HIS FESTIVAL THEATER IN BAYREUTH. Translated from the French by Esther Singleton.
NY: Dodd Mead and Company, (1914).
- Octavo, pinkish brown cloth titled in gilt with decorations in black on spine & in gilt within decorative gilt frame with decorations in black on front cover. The covers are bumped & lightly soiled; the spine is somewhat faded. There is a bookseller's blind stamp on the front endpaper; there is a tear to & a small piece out of the rear endpaper. Illustrated in B&W with portrait frontispiece, folding charts, photographic illustrations, diagrams & music staves. Good.

A later printing.

The charts provide such information as casting in different productions of the operas and the recurrence of characters in the four operas in "The Ring".
Price: 10.00 USD

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	14	(Wagner, Richard). Steigman, B. M. THE UNCONQUERABLE TRISTAN: The Story of Richard Wagner. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. There is a light stain to the spine & the head & tail are rubbed. Half-title, title, [4] leaves & 376 pages. Illustrated with 4 black-and-white portrait plates. Very good. First edition. Price: 10.00 USD
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	15	(Wagner, Richard). Kobbe, Gustav. WAGNER'S MUSIC-DRAMAS ANYLYSED / With the Leading Motives: Nieblung / Tristan / Mastersingers / Parsifal. New York: G. Schirmer, 1915. - Small octavo, red cloth. The covers are lightly bumped and the spine is faded with a small white stain. xv & 211 pages. Illustrated in black & white with 9 plates, 2 full-page illustrations & music staves. The front pastedown and endpaper are partially darkened & there is foxing to the first 3 leaves. Good. Price: 10.00 USD
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	16	(Wagner, Richard). Lange, Walter. WEIB UND WELT: Ein Wagnerbuch. Leipzig: Verlag Deutsche Buchwerkstatten, 1931. - Octavo, cream cloth titled in black. The binding is bumped, soiled & foxed with pencil scribbling & some tiny brown marks on the covers & with a small brown stain to the rear cover. The spine is darkened. 221 & [1] pages. Illustrated with black-and-white facsimiles. There is a small stain to the fore-edge. Good. First edition. The text is in German. Price: 10.00 USD
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	17	(Wagner, Richard). Chapin, Anna Alice. WONDER TALES FROM WAGNER. Told for Young People. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1898). - Octavo gray cloth titled in gilt on the spine & in red within a decorative panel in gray, black & gilt on the front cover. The covers are lightly bumped with some very light spotting to the front cover. xx, [i] & 189 pages. There are 2 small stains to the fore-edge. Illustrated with 16 black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece, & music staves. Very good. Price: 12.50 USD
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Taylor, Richard.

(Wagner, Richard). Wallace, William.