Halifax/NY: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design/New York University Press, 1974. First edition. 78pp; b&w illus. Gray cloth; dust jacket. Mild dust soiling board edges, light toning to edges of leaves. Very good to near fine in a very good jacket, somewhat rubbed and soiled, with a 1.5-inch closed tear at base of front panel.
The correct first issue of this collection of writings by American composer Steve Reich (b. 1938), his first published book; essays, variously, on his aesthetic philosophy, compositional processes, studies of Ghanaian and Balinese music, etc.
