3282: 1 vol. Puccini Giacomo. La Boheme... Partition Start Price USD 3,750.00 Current Price USD 4,750.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 Location Philadelphia, PA See more about '3282: 1 vol. Puccini Giacomo. La Boheme... Partition' Description Current Lot 1 vol. Puccini Giacomo. La Boheme... Partition 1 vol. Puccini, Giacomo. La Boheme... Partition pour Chant et Piano. Paris: G. Ricordi, 1898. First edition, variant issue of the French piano-vocal score. Plate no. 101800. 4to, contemp. 3/4 brown calf & marbled bds., spine label, raised bands; scuffed, joints & extremities rubbed. Internally generally clean, edges very slightly browned. Trimmed - no loss of ptg. Title page with blind stamp dated 1900. Presentation copy, inscribed to the Belgian musicologist, composer & director of the Brussels Conservatory Francois Auguste Gevaert & signed by Puccini on the 1/2 title: "A Monsieur / F. A. Gevaert / directeur du Conservatoire / Royal de musique / hommage respectueux / de / Giacomo Puccini / Bruxelles 25. 10. '900." At the time of the inscription the opera was in the midst of its record-setting Paris run, 1,351 performances from 1898 to 1907. "...the work is considered by some writers to be Puccini's masterpiece" (New Grove 15: 432). Hopkinson 4c(a) Place a Bid!