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STRAVINSKY, Igor Fedorovich (1882-1971). Stravinsky: An Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936. 8º (205 x 134mm). Photographic portrait frontispiece, seven plates reproducing portraits by Picasso, Cocteau and others. Original red cloth, spine with gold-paper label, upper cover reproducing the author's signature in gilt, top edge black (endpapers lightly browned, rear endpaper with remnant of newsprint tipped in). Provenance: Igor Stravinsky (presentation inscription to:) -- Leonora Wood Armsby.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY STRAVINSKY: 'Pour Madame Leonora Wood Armsby temoignage d'une très vive sympathie' and embellished with a short musical quote. Armsby, as managing director, brought to the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra the great Pierre Monteux, who had led the first performance of Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre du printemps'.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY STRAVINSKY: 'Pour Madame Leonora Wood Armsby temoignage d'une très vive sympathie' and embellished with a short musical quote. Armsby, as managing director, brought to the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra the great Pierre Monteux, who had led the first performance of Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre du printemps'.