The Life and Music of Bela Bartok

New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Revised. Small quarto in blue cloth; xvi, 364 pages : illustrations, facsimile, music, portraits; 22 cm Front free paper upper corner nealty clipped; else a very tight and clean Very good(++ copy) lacking jacket. Hardcover.

First published in 1953. In preparing the revised edition, the author has provided new information on some of Bartok's major compositions and has brought the bibliography up to date. This is the first full-scale biography of the composer, and the first book to undertake an examination of his entire musical output.