ARMITAGE, MERLE — A Rendezvous with the Book

Brooklyn, NY: George McKibbin & Son, 1949. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. There is some ground-in dirt to the covers, especially the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. This is Monograph No. 3 of the McKibbin Monograph Series. "Merle Armitage, one of America's leading advocates of modern culture, collected with the same zest he demonstrated in other aspects of his remarkable life. An avant-garde book designer, he also was the local administrator of various federal art projects and one of the country's most successful theater impresarios. Settling in Los Angeles in 1921, Armitage founded the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association and later managed the Philharmonic Auditorium, bringing Martha Graham and Leopold Stokowski here and staging the first L. A. Performance of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .