Joseph Zsuffa   Béla Balázs: The Man and the Artist.  University of California Press, 1986. First printing. 0520055454  xiii/550 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book displays very small amount of dust soiling to top edge of text block and is otherwise in excellent condition. Binding is firm Interior is clean and bright. This work contains b&w photographic plates, bibliography and index. Dust jacket is also in excellent condition, now preserved in mylar cover. "Béla Balázs has been known heretofore chiefly for writing the first systematic treatise on film aesthetics. As this comprehensive and definitive biography reveals, however, he was also an important creative force, who conducted dialogues or collaborated with many masters of the new art - from Alexander Korda to G. W. Pabst, from Sergei Eisenstein to Leni Riefenstahl. Jewish by descent, Hungarian poet, German artist, a revolutionary, and a humanist - a key European figure." (From dust jacket text)