London: Collins / Crime Club, (1977 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, both a classic mystery and a "wittily irreverent look at the provincial opera circcuit." SIGNED on the title page. .196 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2312174.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company, ca 1860. The work for which this German nobleman is best known; this opera was first preformed in Vienna in 1847. Although not as popular as it once was, it continues to be performed. This edition includes a synopsis of the story, the complete score and the words in three languages. Large soft-covered book, bound in a limp leatherette, 10 1/8 by 8 1/2 inches, 230 pages.

New York: Crown, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a celebrated opera singer born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, who was castrated as a young boy to preserve his voice, even though castration was considered an abomination in the Swiss Confederation. Written as a letter to his son, Moses "recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europes celebrated opera houses and reveals the secret that has long shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired?" Historical note. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0307590527.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Hardcover first edition - An "attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women. To make his case, he uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata" and the Tolstoy novella named after it; the writings of Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, psychoanalysis, and the logic of dreams." Notes, bibliography, index. ix, 281 pp. ISBN: 0-520210123.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first SIGNED, limited edition of this play, issued a day after the trade edition - this is copy #52 of only 158 numbered copies signed by the author. (there was a later and much more common signed edition of 500 copies.) This play was the libretto for the first really successful opera by an American composer (Deems Taylor); the plot was based on a tenth-century Saxon story with similarities to Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'. A handsome production, printed on Tuscany handmade paper, and bound in cloth-backed decorated boards, Woodcut frontispiece and header. Extra spine label tipped to rear pastedown. 133 pp.

New York HarperCollins, (c.1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Introduction by Christopher Hogwood, illustrated wth 16 full-color water color paintings by Barry Moser. Words selected from the Holy Scriptures by Charles Jennens. ISBN: 0-06-0217790.

New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Murder and mayhem at the Met" Third mystery featuring Enrico Caruso and soprano Geraldine Ferrar who must find the madman who is systematically eliminating members of the chorus. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-312005768.

Dawlish, England: David & Charles, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Frank Howes. Memoirs covering 50 years of lives of the Radford sisters. In addition to the obvious joy they found in music of all kinds - from small village concerts to folk-dancing tours and especially with the Falmouth Opera Singers - this includes a lot of social history of England in the first half of the 20th century: World War I, their recalcitrant automobile, etc. 103 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Norma and Alexandra Gold Ð New York Sleuths with an old-fashioned solution to murder. As they are attending a $1000 a seat benefit opera performance, one of the principal singers is murdered in front of them and 2000 other witnesses. 227 pp. Dust jacket by Terry Fehr. ISBN: 0-3123367880.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first translation of this Czech classic which first appeared in serialized form in 1920 - the full color illustrations are taken from the original designs and watercolors which Sendak created for the 1981 NY City Opera production of Janacek's opera which was based on this story. A lovely book in every way. Afterword by Robert T. Jones. Slightly oversized format. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-374-133468.

New York: Villard, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth suspense novel by this Edgar-award winning writer, set in the world of opera. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-394546679.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008). Hardcover first edition - Novel set against the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and early Nazi Germany, one "which ultimately reveals the remarkable capacity of human beings to deceive themselves." It is the story of the relationship between Winifred Wagner - an English girl and a Germanophile who was raised in an orphanage and married at age 18 to the son of Richard Wagner - and Adolf Hitler as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner House in Bayreuth. 363 pp. ISBN: 978-0374290962.