ALMA MAHLER-WERFEL, Diaries 1898 - 1902,

Faber & Faber, London - first UK edition ISBN:0571193404 1998 Hardcover, 6¼" x 9½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket From the German edition transcribed and edited by Antony Beaumont & Susanne Rode-Breymann. 19 b&w photographs, 2 facsimile reproductions, dozens b&w drawings throughout text, index of Alma Schindler's compositions, and general index. The diaries depict, in intimate detail, the four years during which Alma grew from adolescence into womanhood - commencing with her first heady affair with Gustav Klimt and breaking off shortly before her marriage to Gustave Mahler. Includes eye-witness accounts of significant artistic events and unique insights into the behavioural patterns and linguistic conventions of homo austriacus.