Operamania May, Robin (1929-1996) Signed & Inscribed,The Arts & Sciences

[Opera Appreciation] FIRST EDITION, with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the author. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[8] 92 [4]. With occasional black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's cyan paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Also with a typed letter from the author on headed note paper, dated September 1974, signed 'your very sincerely | Robin May' in blue ink. Blue ink ownership and a label mark to fly-leaf. A Bristol bookseller's label to front pastedown. Price-clipped jacket toned to spine, with light wear and a few closed tear to edges. Very good. A book for the Opera enthusiast, presenting rare anecdotes and opinions about mid-twentieth-century singers and performances. May's letter is a wild and effusive reply to some very positive fan mail, commencing 'Yours is the best and most enjoyable letter I have ever received, not only on music, but about anything.'.