拍品 293
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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.
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.

细节
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'.