Hi all, Can anyone help identify this font used on a book about the composer Stravinsky? Really struggling to find something that matches closely. Any help or thoughts  would be very much appreciated! Many thanks!

Which book exactly? Printed when?

Hi Ralf, its from the book 

Igor Strawinsky [Stravinsky]

by Armitage, Merle (Editor); Weston, Edward (Portraits).

Published in New York: G. Schirmer, 1936

Another couple of  examples of the typeface here:

The thin letters are probably hand-lettering turned into a printing block just for this book. 

Thanks Ralf - what would you consider to be the closest typographic match that we could use?

If you run the image from your first post through the WhattheFont service, you get some pretty good results. 

Thanks Ralf. We tried this but felt there wasn't anything that was close enough. Which typeface would you recommend as the best match?

What’s the goal? For something like a reprint, I would just digitize the original design. If you just like the overall look for an unrelated project, it would be a matter of taste which of the similar designs suits your needs. That’s why I didn’t want to pick. 

No problem. Thanks Ralf. We’ll aim to create a digitised version. 

Let me know if you need someone with a type-design background to digitize it. 😉

 

Will do Ralf! Thanks again for your help!

Mark Simonson's Mostra Nuova Thin has a very similar vibe, and with a bit of tweaking could approximate your sample.

Thanks Kevin! Think this looks like a great option!