Sibelius: A Close-Up by de Torne, Bengt - 1937

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. First American Edition . Clothbound Hardcover. Good/Fine [replacement]. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A uniquely fascinating memoir about the great Finnish composer, writtern by his student Bengt de Torne (1891-1967 - himself a composer). CONTENTS: Preface; Note; Chapters I-VIII; Appendix [musical examples]. 117 pages. CONDITION: The cloth-bound covers are rather worn and scuffed, but the page-block is securely bound within. Opening the book, one finds age-speckling on the front and rear paste-downs, and the first page is the full title page (its front free endpaper and half-title page missing). The pages are unmarked, but many of them have a bit of soiling/discoloration in the margins (not intruding into the text, however). This nevertheless quite respectable copy, lacking its original dust-jacket, is now nestled in a simple new one with titling on the spine - enclosed in a clear mylar protective cover.