Star on the Door

First edition. 192pp, with portrait plate frontispiece.  Coral pink cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  Pale blue, illustrated endpapers.  8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at spine tail.  Upper text block edge dust darkened.  Some faint and occasional spotting on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original illustrated dust wrapper, rubbed and chipped at edges, with short closed tear from upper leading corners, sunned over spine.  Dust wrapper now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. Memoirs of Mary Teyte (1888-1976, born Tate), the English operative soprano and interpreter of French and German art songs.