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First edition; 2 vols, oblong folio (330 x 260mm, 13 x 10 1/8 in); orchestral score with libretto in Italian and German, vol. I with additional engraved vignette title by Bolt after Kinninger (foxed) of the supper scene between Commendatore and Don Giovanni, printed title with attractive ink presentation to upper corner margin, dated 1877) and 2 following pp. of text, engraved musical score 6-292pp, vol. II with printed title and engraved musical score 294-590pp, with separate printed divisional title 'Anhang von spaeter eingelegten Stuecken', some sporadic light foxing and minor staining, mostly to final leaf of vol. I, some leaves trimmed at upper edge with loss to pagination in vol.2 but in the main clean and bright; modern diced calf, upper covers lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, most attractive.

First edition; 4to (260 x 190 mm, 10 x 7 1/2 in); half-title signed by seven former Colditz prisoners of war, numerous colour and black & white portraits and illustrations; publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering, boards slightly bowed, small chip to long side of upper one, otherwise a very good and internally fine.

4to (285 x 230 mm); engraved vignette title with portrait of John Gay, Table of the Songs, Dramatis Personne 1777, Introduction, the playscript, and music score with libretto, toned, a few random spots or marks, otherwise very good; later full polished calf, scuffed, marked and bumped but very sound.

First US edition, first impression; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); presentation copy, signed on the title page, 'V.S. Naipual for Al Murray', cartographic endpapers, top edge stained; original burgundy cloth, author's initials blind stamped to upper board, title and floral detail gilt stamped to spine, slightly rubbed, with the dust jacket in a later state, a good copy.

First edition; 4to; frontispiece aquatint finished with exquisite hand-colouring, a further 41 illustrations, many full-page, captioned tissue-guards, modern Ex Libris to upper paste-down, the odd spot and blemish but mainly fine; contemporary full tan calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt armorial device to covers, graduated panels and dentelles, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, a trifle rubbed and bumped at corners, else very good; iii, [blank], 203, [vii] pp.

First edition. 8vo., xxxiii, [7], 480, [8]pp., contemporary calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, lightly rubbed, otherwise very good.

First U.S. edition; 8vo; inscribed by the playwright on front free endpaper; publisher's taupe cloth, dust-jacket, lightly dust-soiled, chips, creases and short tears to extremities, the latter mostly to spine ends, otherwise internally fine.

First edition; small 4to (205 x 205 mm.); frontispiece and illustrations; publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket, a very good copy.

First edition; 8vo; 8 plates; some mild marginal toning, small patch of offsetting to two pages from a page marker, overall internally fine; publisher's blue cloth, printed dust-jacket, slightly toned at spine, a few small chips, but overall very good.

Caruso seated with right hand holding cigarette and leaning on cane, signed boldly and diagonally upwards, 85 x 140mm (3 1/4 x 5 1/2 ins), mounted, 240 x 1295 mm (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 ins), near-fine.