New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2005 Annotated. Hard cover Very good. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 435 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 2nd printing.

New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2005 Annotated. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations.

ISBN10: 0300109075, ISBN13: 9780300109078, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover First Edition First Edition, First Impression, 2005. Large Octavo, black cloth boards with silver titles to spine. pp: xii + 435. Grey epp ilustrating birdsong notation. Tight, bright and clean, with no marks, annotations or inscriptions. Minimal dust-spots to top edge. (Fine) D/W silver, Not price-clipped, monochrome photo of the composer on front, overlaid with silver and white titles; colour photo on rear panel showing him notating birdsong.Clean and bright, with little sign of having been handled. (Fine). An intensively researched and well-illustrated biography of a composer who had previously proved hard to research and evaluate, despite his growing importance in the development of 20thC classical music. In particular, his emphasis on the importance of the natural world, allied to an uncompromising avant-garde technique, makes him unique. A lovely copy, now in removable clear protective wraps.
[HUDDERSFIELD, YORKS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
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