This book is a great read!  The book is hard cover with a dust sleeve!  The sleeve has some light wear and the book itself is in mafnificent condition!  The binding is solid!  The book was origionally printed in paris in 1966 and translated for the first time in 1968 for U.S. this is a First Print!  This book also has pics!

 

"Some men, and Varese is one of them, are like dynamite.  That alone, I suppose, is sufficiant to explain why they are handled with such caution and shyness.  As yet we have no censorship of music, though I remember Huneker writeing somewhere that it was surpriseing we hadn't censored certain masterpieces.  As for Varese, I honestly believe that if he were given a clear field he not only be censored but stoned.  Why?  For the very simple reason that his music  is different.... I remember vividly the first time I heard Varese's music--on a msgnificent recording machine.  I was stunned.  It was as if I had been given a knock-out blow.  When I recovered I listioned again.  This time I recognized emotions which I had experienced in the first instance but which, becuase of the novelty, becuase of the continuous, uninterrupted succession of novelties, I had been unable to identify.  My emotions had piled up to a crescendo whose impact came as a self-delivered sock in the jaw."

Henry Miller, from The Air-Conditioned Nightmare