404pp, plus some monochrome plate illustrations. In blue publisher's cloth boards with gilt titles front and spine. 8vo. Boards faded towards edges and rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends; sunned over spine, worse where there is dust jacket loss, quite cocked. Tanned text block edges. Free endpapers tanning. Page margins tanned, volume a little loose. Otherwise, internally neat and clean. Dust jacket has loss at spine ends, some loss, closed tears, shelf wear, not price clipped.
Berta Giessmar (1892-1949) was secretary & business manager to orchestral conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Wilhelm Furtwangler. Of Jewish heritage, she worked for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra until 1935 when she fled Nazi Germany for London.
