Item #409415 Old Fogy. His Musical Opinions and Grotesques. With an Introduction and Edited by ... Huneker. James Gibbons HUNEKER.

Old Fogy. His Musical Opinions and Grotesques. With an Introduction and Edited by ... Huneker

Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, [1913]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. Boards a trifle faded, small bump at front bottom edge; jacket a little soiled and frayed. Item #409415

First edition, first binding with figured endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Huneker on the dedication page: "This book of musical jollies is for the Weils – Ottilie and Otto – with the regards of their old friend James Huneker, May 1914, New York." Otto Weil was involved as a director and manager in the music scene in New York, for several years being with the business staff of the Metropolitan Opera Company. "Old Fogy" – the music critic Huneker himself – writes on Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Liszt, et al. Unusual in the dust jacket. Merle Johnson, p. 274. (BA).

Price: $150.00

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