First edition, second printing. xii, 436pp, with black and white illustrations. Black publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. Illustrated grey endpapers. 4to. Cloth very slightly rounded on lower corners and spine tips else neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust wrapper a little bumped on extreme edges, slightly rubbed on corners.
Oliver Eugene Messiaen was a French composer and organist. A major 20th century composer, he was also know as a talented teacher of musical composition and analysis.
