The Queen of Sheba. Metropolitan Opera House. Edmund C. Stanton, Director of the Opera. Season of 1885-86. Water 7-3/8" x 5"

7-3/8" x 5"

Stapled tan wrappers with embossed blue lettering

San Francisco: Frank Eastman & Co

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plank fell striking edgewise on back of neck

The Queen of Sheba. Metropolitan Opera House. Edmund C. Stanton, Director of the Opera. Season of 1885-86. Water 7-3/8" x 5"[New York]: [Metropolitan Opera House], [1885]. 23. 5 x 17 cm. [5], 17 double pages, [1]pp. Light blue grey wrappers printed in black, text in English and German. Light foxing to wrappers; light vertical center crease throughout. Very Good. Libretto from the first American season of "The Queen of Sheba", whose opening performance was in Vienna in 1875, and which debuted in America at the Metropolitan Opera House in December 1885. The Boston Globe