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List of books written by Joseph Wechsberg.
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“Are you happy when you lose? Do you fiddle, paint, cook for the hell of it?
Then brother, you’re an amateur.” –JW
 
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Looking for a Bluebird: Joseph Wechsberg, 1944, 1945;
Armed Services Editions, Army paperback.
Lookin for a Bluebord back cover
     
Looking for a Bluebird: Joseph Wechsberg, 1944;
Houghton Mifflin Company Riverside Press, hardcover.
back cover   book flap
     
Looking for a Bluebird: Joseph Wechsberg, 1947; Penguin, paperback. back cover
     
Looking for a Bluebird: Joseph Wechsberg, 1948; Penguin, paperback. book flap
     
Homecoming: Joseph Wechsberg, 1946; Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover. front flap  back flap  back flap
     
The Continental Touch hardcoverThe Continental Touch paperback The Continental Touch: Joseph Wechsberg, 1948;
Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover.
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Sweet and Sour: Joseph Wechsberg, 1949; Michael Joseph Ltd., hardcover. book flap
     
Blue Trout & Black Truffles (the peregrinations of an Epicure): Joseph Wechsberg, 1953, 1954; Alfred A.Knopf. back cover  front flap  back flap
     
The Self-Betrayed: Joseph Wechsberg, 1955; Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover.  
     
The Self-Betrayed (A novel of the old Europe and the new): Joseph Wechsberg, 1955; Victor Gollancz Ltd., hardcover. front flap   back flap
     
Dream Towns of Europe: Joseph Wechsberg;
Weidenfeld and Nicolson coffee table, hardcover.
book flap
     
Avalanche!: Joseph Wechsberg, 1958; Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover. book flap
     
A Dreamer of Wine: A profile of Alexis Lichine: Joseph Wechsberg, 1958; reprinted from The New Yorker issues of May 17 and 24, 36 pages.  
     
Avalanche!: Joseph Wechsberg, 1961; Pan Books Ltd., paperback.  
     
Red Plush and Black Velvet (The Story of Dame Nellie Melba and her Times): Joseph Wechsberg, 1961; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, hardcover. back cover   book flap
     
Red Plush and Black Velvet (The Story of Melba and Her Times): Joseph Wechsberg, 1961; Little, Brown and Company, hardcover. back cover front flap back flap
     
Dining at the Pavillon: Joseph Wechsberg, 1962;
Little, Brown and Company, hardcover.
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Journey Through the Land of Eloquent Silence (East Germany Revisited): Joseph Wechsberg, 1964; Little, Brown and Company, hardcover. front flap   back flap
     
The Best Things in Life: Joseph Wechsberg, 1964;
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, hardcover.
 
     
The Merchant Bankers: Joseph Wechsberg, 1966;
Little, Brown and Company, hardcover.
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Prelude to Modern Music: The Story of Great Music Prelude to Modern Music: The Story of Great Music: Joseph Wechsberg, 1966; Time Life Records Pub., New York. Four-album box set, housed in superb, embossed, hard cover with card inset, comes with a 60-page booklet (12 x 12 inches) with color illustrations. Prelude to Modern Music: The Story of Great Music booklet
     
The Merchant Bankers: Joseph Wechsberg, 1967;
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, hardcover.
 
     
The Merchant Bankers: Joseph Wechsberg, 1968; pocket book.
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A Walk through the Garden of Science (A Profile of the Weizmann Institute): Joseph Wechsberg, 1967; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, hardcover. back cover  front flap  back flap
     
The Cooking of Vienna’s Empire - Foods of the World Series: Joseph Wechsberg, and the Editors of Time-Life Books, 1968; Time-Life Books coffee table, hardcover. The Cooking of Vienna’s Empire title page The Cooking of Vienna’s Empire The Cooking of Vienna’s Empire
     
The Sounds of Vienna: Joseph Wechsberg, 1968;
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, hardcover.
front flap  back flap
     
The Pantheon Story of Music for Young People The Pantheon Story of Music for Young People: Joseph Wechsberg, 1968; Pantheon Books, New York. A survey of music and its history from the contributions of the ancient world through the innovations of twentieth-century composers.  
     
The Voices (The Prague Spring): Joseph Wechsberg, 1969; Curtis Books, paperback. back cover   back flap
     

The Voices (The Prague Spring): Joseph Wechsberg, 1969;
Doubleday & Co., hardcover.

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The First Time Around (Some Irreverent Recollections): Joseph Wechsberg, 1970; Little, Brown and Company, hardcover. book flap
     
Prague - The Mystical City: Joseph Wechsberg, 1971;
The Macmillan Company, hardcover.
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The Opera: Joseph Wechsberg, 1972; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, hardcover. front flap   back flap
     
The Glory of the Violin: Joseph Wechsberg, 1972, 1973;
The Viking Press, hardcover.
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The Waltz Emporors (The Life and Times and Music of the Strauss Family): Joseph Wechsberg, 1973; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, hardcover. front flap
     
  Looking for a Bluebird: Joseph Wechsberg, 1974; Greenwood Press, hardcover.  
     
Verdi: Joseph Wechsberg, 1974; Weidenfeld and Nicolson coffee table, hardcover. front flap  back flap
     
  Verdi: Joseph Wechsberg, 1974; G. P. Putnam’s Sons coffee table, hardcover.  
     
In Leningrad: Joseph Wechsberg, 1977; Doubleday & Co., hardcover. back cover  front flap  back flap
     
Schubert: His Life, His Work, His Time: Joseph Wechsberg, 1977; Weidenfeld and Nicolson coffee table, hardcover. front flap
     
The Lost World of the Great Spas: Joseph Wechsberg, 1979;
Harper & Row coffee table, hardcover.
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The Danube: 2,000 Years of History, Myth, and Legend: Joseph Wechsberg, 1979; Newsweek Books, Inc. USA, hardcover.  
     
The Vienna I Knew (Memories of a European Childhood): Joseph Wechsberg, 1979; Doubleday & Co., hardcover. back cover  front flap  back flap
     
The Dome Was My Teacher (A Little History of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna): Joseph Wechsberg, 1982; Herder, softcover.  
     
  Lehman Brothers: The Money Magicians: Joseph Wechsberg, 1989; 63 pages; Benjamin Co.  
     
Trifles Make Perfection: Joseph Wechsberg, 1999; Godine. front flap  back flap
     
 


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