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SUCHET**, JOHN: : VERDI - THE MAN REVEALED

LONDON.ELLIOTT & THOMPSON LIMITED,2017.

ISBN 9781783963300.

UK,heavy 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrpt,but author's handwritten,bold expansive signature in black felt-tip ink to title page - without dedication,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean matt,subject's colour portrait reproduction illustrated front panel with red+white glossy lettering to front and spine/backstrip,rear panel with red,black and brown lettered synopsis extract and critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumpng or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip,a red headband and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,2-279pp [paginated] includes 26 chapters,an afterword,notes,a bibliography,profuse contemporary colour reproduction illustrations and modern colour photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,an index, acknowledgements,picture credits with Classic FM's potted history to its reverse.Plus [unpaginated] half-title, author SIGNED title page,a dedication,and double-page contents list/table. Giuseppe Verdi remains Italy's greatest operatic composer and a man of apparent contradictions - vividly brought to life through a nuanced examination of his life and monumental music.Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy,the home of opera,has ever produced.Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it.He was a landowner,a farmer,a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story.An obsessive perfectionist,Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from the start as dazzling feats of composition and characterization.From Rigoletto to Otello, La Traviatato to Aida,Verdi's canon encompassed the full range of human emotion.His private life was no less complex: he suffered great loss,and went out of his way to antagonize supporters and his own family.An outspoken advocate of Italian independence and a sharp critic of the church,he was often at odds with nineteenth-century society.In 'Verdi: The Man Revealed', John Suchet attempts to get under the skin of perhaps the most private composer who ever lived.Unraveling his protestations,his deliberate embellishments and disavowals,Suchet reveals the true character of this great artist - and the art for which he will be forever known. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N. B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p FREE. Offer available UK only, unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,heavy 8vo HB+dw/ dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.