Author: EKMAN, KARL
Title: JEAN SIBELIUS
Description: Otava, 1935.. Hardcover with dust jacket. Hardback, tall octavo, appx 6 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches (16.5 x 22.75 cm), pp 269, [vii], About VG in G+ dj (dj now in protective mylar). Book itself quite nice other than university department stamp on each of the 4 endpapers. DJ clean, spine tanning a little worse than minor, some general wear at the extremities + closed tear top corner front panel, small chip out head of spine, 1-inch chip out top edge back panel. Appx 20 b&w plates on glossy stock scattered throughout incl frontis portrait. Laid-in: b&w Karsh portrait of Sibelius snipped from a magazine & 1957 Raivaaja clipping (American Finnish langauge newspaper) that seems to show Sibelius funeral (casket w/ pallbearers). Book printed in the Finnish language. Very Good/Good.

Keywords: Classical Music Composers Biography Foreign Language Finnish Finland