Greece -- Boissonnas, Frédérique & Daniel Baud-Bovy
£400
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
En Grèce pars monts et par vaux. Geneva: F. Boissonas, 1936. Second edition, 4to, number 308 [of an unspecified number], presentation copy to Samuel Barber [1910-81] from Dimitri Mitropoulos, 41 photographic plates, captioned tissue guards, photographic illustrations in the text, original wrappers, upper joint frayed and slight loss to upper wrapper
Footnote
Note: Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960), Greek conductor, pianist, and composer. Samuel Barber (1910-1981), American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his opera Vanessa and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.