Bonni leon (2 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Stated first ed.; 352 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only faintly age-toned; drawings; binding tight; despite absence of d.j. the beige boards are clean, gilt lettering legible, corners lightly bumped and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine. Small splatter on lower fore-edge.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 276 p. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0767903501; 9780767903509; LCCN: 00-31233 ; LC: ML410.B4; Dewey: 780/.92 ; OCLC: 44016338 ; brown and grey cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; name on front endpaper ; "The unusual journey of a locket of the great composers hair, taken shortly after his death, and what it reveals about the man's life and death" ; Contents: Prelude --; 1770-1792 --; The Boy Who Snipped the Lock --; 1792-1802 --; A Gift in Gilleleje --; 1803-1812 --; Hair for Sale at Sotheby's --; 1813-1824 --; Che Guevara's Hair --; 1824-1826 --; Very Modern Microscopes --; 1826-1827. ; "Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man. Such was his powerful effect on all those who had heard his music. For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, and perhaps was destined to end up sequestered in a bank vault, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark, during the darkest days of the Second World War." ; FINE/FINE. Book.…