The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

Lippincott Hardcover w/d.j. - blk/white photographs & blk/white drawings by Trapp Family. 309 pages - Copyright 1949, Eighteenth Printing, June 1966. - The story begins in Austria after the first World War, in which the Baron distinguished himself as a submarine commander. A widower, he had five daughters, two sons and no one to look after them; and from a neighboring convent he obtained as governess a young student Maria. Included are photos of the family, the Baron and Maria.