Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1950.  Hard cover, 627 pages including Selected Reading Guide and Index.  Good plus; some edge and cover wear, corners and spine ends bumped; small tears to cloth; binding sound; but of soil/age spotting on outer page block.  No Jacket.  Gift inscription with a vintage sticker on FEP; some age spotting on first and last few pages; very short fore-edge tear on one page; a few pages at rear of book have underlines and a bit of marginalia.  Includes the Stories of the Great Operas, How to Enjoy an Opera, A Brief History of Opera and The Ballet in Opera.