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VERDI  Companion bundle  ...  Discs like new, unmarked, not scratched, unplayed (+ book including Libretto)

2 CD Set  1998  Rigoletto:  Philips Digital Classic (DDD) 

Gruberova Fassbaender Schicoff Bruson Lloyd ~ Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ~ Guiseppe Sinopoli

2-disc set with perfect inserts: 13 page illustrated booklet with notes in German, English, and French. In a perfect jewel case.  

Philips Duo Edition, '462 158-2' ;EAN 0 28946 21582 1; made in Germany by Polygram (PMDC)

comes together with:

1st Edition Hardcover ~ 1st printing 

1979, HcDw,  generally excellent condition (little opened)

Rigoletto  ~ A Guide to the Opera

by Charles Osborne; foreword by Tito Gobbi

Published in London by Barrie & Jenkins; ISBN 0-214-20654-8; this the 1979 1st edition and the 1st printing; printed and bound in Over Wallop by BAS Printers.

160 page, 8vo; 24cm. x  16cm.; 0.549kg.

Hardcover with unmarked blue cloth textured boards, with crisp gilt titling to good spine; perfect gutters and hinges; no shelf wear; tight square binding; perfectly regular clean text block; clean text, sharp page corners, no inscriptions, marginalia or other alien marking; plain endpapers; not malodorous; not ex-library. Little opened and generally excellent.

The dustwrapper has no loss and is not price clipped (£5.50 net), glossy full colour, not faded; not torn or marked but with a hint of rubbing to the top and bottom edges.

Registered and trackable shipping is included in the price and therefore shown as FREE to any destination world-wide.. In wrapping, cushioning and sealed customised hard cardboard encapsulation. 

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