Stravinsky  

 

Igor Stravinsky & Robert Craft
Themes and Episodes

First Edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1966.  Hardcover, black cloth with purple decoration. Clear, bright gold gilt lettering on backstrip. Negligible sunning at head & tail of backstrip.  Small rubber stamp, "Permanent Library, Do Not Remove," on free endpaper recto & verso, flyleaf & half title page.  Otherwise Fine condition. DJ in good + condition with a two small tears & some shipping on edges. 

 

Igor Stravinsky was perhaps the greatest composer of the 20th century.  Robert Craft is an award-winning American conductor, musicologist & writer who had a profound creative partnership with Stravinsky. The two collaborated on many books & Craft remains a major interpreter of Stravinsky's music. $35