First edition. xii, 374pp, plus a smattering of black and white plate illustrations. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth is a little darkened, two small chips at base of front joing. Hint of toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
A memoir of the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (died 1924) firmly rooted in evidence from the seven hundred or so letters Puccini wrote to the author's mother.
