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Stravinsky - A Critical Survey.
by [STRAVINSKY, Igor] Eric Walter White
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, John Lehmann, 1947. . First edition, first impression, dedication copy from the author to his wife; 8vo; publisher's tan cloth, titles to spine gilt on a black ground, black topstain, with the dust jacket, in the particularly good dust-jacket.
The non plus ultra example being the copy inscribed by the author to his wife to whom the book is formally dedicated, 'TO MY WIFE'. With White signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, ' To Dodo without whose sympathy, encouragement and judgement this book cd never have been written Eric 1947'.
Eric Walter White's first foray into the critical study of Stravinsky about whom he would go on to write a compendious history. Through these two works White became the great composer's most important biographer. Eric and Dodo white married in 1939.
The non plus ultra example being the copy inscribed by the author to his wife to whom the book is formally dedicated, 'TO MY WIFE'. With White signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, ' To Dodo without whose sympathy, encouragement and judgement this book cd never have been written Eric 1947'.
Eric Walter White's first foray into the critical study of Stravinsky about whom he would go on to write a compendious history. Through these two works White became the great composer's most important biographer. Eric and Dodo white married in 1939.
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- Shapero Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 107899
- Title
- Stravinsky - A Critical Survey.
- Author
- [STRAVINSKY, Igor] Eric Walter White
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, John Lehmann, 1947.
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