xx 558 pages, index. Translated by Hanns Hammelmann and Ewald Osers, Introduction by Edward Sackville-West. The covers are lightly rubbed, else clean, unmarked and solid. "This valuable correspondence, a step-by-step telling of the shared struggles and achievements of two men who were so different in background and personality, is another artistic legacy of the 'working friendship" of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal" (back cover)