Igor Stravinsky

by Merle Armitage

First edition. Designed by Merle Armitage including a dramatic jacket. Printed by Progress-Bulletin under supervision of M.A. Johnson. Fifteen essays on Stravinsky 1882-1971 ranging from the casual through the technical to the intimate and the personal. Contributors include Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Sir Osbert Sitwell, Aaron Sitwell, Merle Armitage, and Nicolas Nabokoff. Illustrated with prints by Pablo Picasso, Antonio Frasconi, Cady Wells, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall and others. With a discography and complete list of the works of Stravinsky. "This is not a book to settle a discussion about Stravinsky; it is a book to begin one." Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown endpaper. Some small closed tears to dust jacket. 245+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

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