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The Baton and the Jackboot: Recollections of a Musical Life

Author(s):

Geissmar, Berta

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

–

Impression:

–

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Hamish Hamilton

Publication Year:

1945

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

027864

Catalogue(s):

Autobiography and Biography ◇ Music and Songs

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Reprint. 404pp, plus some monochrome plate illustrations. In blue publisher’s cloth boards with gilt titles front and spine. 8vo. Boards are worn, faded towards edges and rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, sunned over spine with some mild marks. Spotting on text block edges and mildly so on endpapers. Previous owner’s name neatly inked on front paste down. Hint of page toning else internally neat and clean. A little soft.

Berta Giessmar (1892-1949) was secretary and business manager to both orchestral conductors Sir Thomas Beecham andWilhelm Furtwangler. She worked for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra until 1935 when, because of her Jewish heritage, she fled Nazi Germany for London.

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