Beschreibung:

HERRMANN BERNARD: (1911-1975) American Film Composer, Academy Award winner. Herrmann is remembered for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock on many films including Psycho, North by Northwest and Vertigo. Herrmann's other film scores include Citizen Kane and Taxi Driver. Book signed, being a hardback edition of A List of Books About Music in the English Language, compiled by Percy A. Scholes as an appendix to The Oxford Companion to Music, First Edition published by the Oxford University Press, 1940. With Herrmann's ownership signature ('Bernard Herrmann') in bold black fountain pen ink to the head of the front free endpaper. Also bearing numerous ink and pencil annotations and marks throughout indicating which books the composer owned or wished to acquire as well as a few brief details of additional titles. Bound in the original publisher's blue cloth and with a gilt title to the spine. No dust jacket. Rare. Some very light, extremely minimal age wear,