404pp, plus some monochrome plate illustrations. In blue publisher's cloth boards with gilt titles front and spine. 8vo. Sun-faded where there is dust jacket loss, small stain on front. Text block edges tanning and foxing. Free endpapers starting to fox, previous owner's on front free endpaper, page margins tanned. Otherwise internally neat and clean. Dust jacket has tape repairs, loss to bottom rear, chipping, not price clipped.
Berta Giessmar (1892-1949) was secretary and business manager to both orchestral conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Wilhelm Furtwangler. She worked for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra until 1935 when, because of her Jewish heritage, she fled Nazi Germany for London.
