Author: MASON, Daniel Gregory
Title: Contemporary Composers
Description: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1918. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial giltstamping. xi, 290pp, 4pp ads. Frontispiece, 4 illustrations. Very good. Almost rates a "Near fine," as it's tight and lovely and the front cover gilt is as bright and fresh, but the spine gilt is rubbed. Superb first edition and, although not so marked, from the library of musicologist and conductor/director Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94). Unusual circular perforation style "review slip" text punched into title page. Essays on Richard Strauss, Sir Edward Elgar, Claude Debussy, Vincent d'Indy and on "Music in America. .

Keywords: Music


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