Bartok: A Memoir

Στα σπάνια ξένα βιβλία. Copy 132 of 175 copies. Printed by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press for Lawrence Clark Powell and Yehudi Menuhin, 1973. . Small octavo, 5 inches by 8 inches. . With a full-page woodcut by Mary Kuper of the Plantin Press on page [iii]. A bright, clean, and fine copy of an attractive Plantin Press item that is scarce in commerce. The colophon explains that Lawrence Clark Powell commissioned Saul and Lillian Marks to reprint this passage from Theme and Variations, a 1972 memoir by the violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916 – 1999). Powell was a fan of the memoir and of Menuhin's work, which included important performances the compositions (truncated)