GREGOR-DELLILN, Martin, and Dietrich Mack, eds.

COSIMA WAGNER'S DIARIES; Volume I, 1869-1877, Volume II, 1878-1883. Translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Skelton.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976). First Edition. Two vols, 8vo, pp. 1199, 1200. Illustrated. Includes notes. Owner's signature on titles, occasional marginal notes or underlinings, o/w VG in little worn djs. Item #27065

Cosima kept a diary in order to leave her children an account of her life with Wagner. She did not continue it after his death, although she lived for 47 more years, and was active in the management of the Bayreuth performances.

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