Anton Webern

186pp. Light purple cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded board edges, lightly rubbed corners and spine heel. Top text block edge foxing all edges tanning. Endpapers starting to fox and tan; pages starting to age. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket tanning, has significant shelf wear and chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

Anton Webern was a German composer, conductor and musicologist: his music was seen as radical and he became a champion of the likes of Gustav Mahler.  He was shot and killed by a soldier in an apparent accident shortly after the Second World War.