[Violinists & Cellists] Kreisler, Fritz. (1875–1962)
Four Weeks in The Trenches, SIGNED
New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1915. First edition . Four Weeks in The Trenches, The War Story of a Violinist. Inscribed to socialite Mrs. Ernesto Fabbri and signed by Kreisler on the flyleaf, dated September 1915. 86 pages, with eight photographic plates. Together with a color postcard photograph of the Buonriposo Cottage, built in 1904 and then burned 1918 and rebuilt in 1919, owned by Ernesto Fabbri, who was the Commander of the Otter Cliff Naval Radio Station at Otter Cliffs in WWI. Scattered foxing, sometimes heavy, green cloth boards a little rubbed, else fine.The beloved American violinist and composer of Austrian birth was one of the most important musicians of the last century. (12934)
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