The Trapp-family Book Of Christmas Songs: For Voice And Piano (1st Ed. Signed By Maria Trapp)
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This first edition, signed hardcover is in very good condition. Externally the dust jacket has aged in colour and has a few spots on it. The book displays edge wear and has small rips to the bottom edge, some tears to the top and bottom of the spine and to the bottom right edge, there is some small wear to the back cover. The boards are in very good condition with only slight signs of age. Internally the book is signed in ink on the front free end paper by Maria Trapp and has slight discolouration. The book is not price clipped. All other pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Collection of Christmas songs from around the world decorated with woodcut-style illustrations. In illustrated boards, in very fine condition, lacking fragile outer dust jacket which reproduced the same cover design. The classic film The Sound of Music was based on their experiences escaping the Nazi invasion of Austria. "Four months after the Nazi invasion, the von Trapps worked in earnest to make their discreet plans to emigrate....Although leaving Austria permanently would be difficult, the von Trapps were blessed, for they had the one thing that most refugees can only dream about: a job, or at least a contract. A year earlier, an American impresario named Charles L. Wagner had offered the choir a chance to sing in New York. This offer would now give them sanctuary in the new world. Their beloved Father Wasner got permission from his superiors to join them. In August 1938, each family member packed one rucksack, pretending that they were going on family vacation in Italy...Georg von Trapp had been born in Trieste...so his passport allowed him and his family to travel freely across the border. The family and Father Wasner calmly boarded a train which took them into the south Tryol, part of Italy. The next day, the border was closed. Their timing, as befits a close-harmony group, was again impeccable....Eventually, Wagner wired them their money and, on October 7, 1938, they travelled to London to board the SS American Farmer, sailing to New York." (Laurence Masion, "The Sound of Music Companion," p. 43)
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