GOOSSENS (Eugene).

Overture and Beginners.

Illustrations. Reprint. 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. London, Methuen, 1951.

£50.00

A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper ‘For my friend ‘Peterborough’ sincerely Eugene Goossens Aug.1960’. Tipped in an ALS, Aug. 11 presenting this book, ‘you’ll notice that at 23 I had already conducted a dozen operas for Beecham, not that I wish to boast of it’, altogether some 80 words. Peterborough was the name of a column in the Daily Telegraph. Old staple stain to front endpapers.

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