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Maria Callas books. biographies, photos, magazines - $250 (Inwood / Wash Hts)
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This utterly unique collection of books and ephemera about La Divina, soprano Maria Callas, is for sale. 22 mostly-rare editions of hard-to-find and out-of-print books and magazines was lovingly collected and cared for by one of her most ardent fans, actor Michael (Mendy) Wager, who was the inspiration for Terrence McNally’s play, “The Lisbon Traviata”. Several volumes are signed or dedicated to him.
I would like to sell the collection as a whole, but would consider selling individual items.
$250 for the entire collection.
The large auction catalog alone sells online for $350.
Maria Callas: Souvenirs d’une légende (2000 auction catalogue) (hardback)
Calmels Chambre Cohen
Theatre Arts – Special Opera Issue (magazine)
March 1959
Maria Callas – La Divina (10) (magazine)
Gli Anni Giovanili 1923-1947
Armando Curcio, Editore
Maria Callas – La Divina (8) (magazine)
La “Medea” di Pasolini 1966-1969
Armando Curcio, Editore
Maria Callas – La voix du siècle (magazine)
Le Monde de la Musique, Hors-série Maria Callas
Maria Callas – The Art Behind the Legend (hardback)
Henry Wisneski, Doubleday, 1975
Callas – les images d’une voix (hardback)
Sergio Segalini
Callas – The Art and the Life / The Great Years (hardback)
John Ardoin & Gerald Fitzgerald, 1974
Dedicated “For Mendy, Acolyte to acolyte, John NYC 80”
Callas, Edition du Collectionneur (French language version, paperback)
Attila Csampai & Ingeborg Bachmann
Callas, Stewart, Tambori & Chang (English language version, hardback)
Attila Csampai
Callas – Portrait of a Prima Donna (hardback)
George Jellinek, 1960 FIRST EDITION
Greek Fire – The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis (paperback)
Nicholas Gage, 2000 FIRST EDITION
Callas – La Divina – Art that Conceals Art (hardback)
Stellos Galatopoulos, 1966
Signed “Mendy Wager”
The Callas Legacy – A Biography of a Career [revised edition] (hardback)
John Ardoin, 1982
Signed “M.W.”
The Callas Legacy [first edition] (hardback)
John Ardoin, 1977 FIRST EDITION
My Wife – Maria Callas (hardback)
Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 1982
Dedicated to Mendy
The Unknown Callas – The Greek Years (hardback)
Nicholas Petsalis-Diomidis, 2001
Maria Callas – Ses Récitals 1954-1969
L’Avant Scène Opera, 1982
Utterly remarkable compilation from France listing every recital Callas sang accompanied by amazing photographs.
Callas at Juilliard – The Master Classes (hardback)
John Ardoin, 1987
Dedicated “For the Mendy in our life, with love, Shirley & George Perle 1994”
Maria Callas – Sacred Monster (hardback)
Stellos Galatopoulos, 1998
Maria Callas – The Woman Behind the Legend (hardback)
Arianna Stassinopoulos, 1981 FIRST EDITION
Maria Callas – A Tribute (hardback)
Pierre-Jean Rémy, 1978
Black and white Publicity Still 5” x 8” of Callas as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, Mexico City, 1951
Photo by SEMO (Simón Flechine, 1894-1981, a.k.a. Fleshin), born in Kiev, photographer of movie stars and performing artists based in Mexico