Of Lena Geyer

First edition.  474p.  Red cloth-covered boards with yellow lettering front and spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little worn, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a little sunned over the spine.  Endpapers lightly tannedwith hint of toning throughout.  Related newspaper clippings laid in, one pasted to the front endpapers. 

Marcia Davenport, perhaps best remembered for her turnpoint biography of Mozart, was a music writer and critic, the daughter of reknown opera singer, Alma Gluck. This is her first novel, a portrait of an opera singer told through the eyes of others.