Stravinsky at Rehearsal: A Sketchbook

First edition.  16pp, plus 49pp of drawings.  In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt motif on upper panel and gilt lettering on spine.  Slim 8vo.  Cloth very gently rounded at corners and spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a long number written on the copyright page.  In its original dust wrapper, shelf worn and toned, rubbed at edges and sun-darkened on spine.

An endearing slim book published to mark Stravinsky's 80th birthday, a collection of Milein Cosman's brilliant drawings preceded by a long introductory essay analysing Stravinsky's creative character and his surprising change of mind towards serial technique.