[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Association copy: Thornton Wilder Inscribed to Aaron Copland

[Charles Agvent]

WILDER, Thornton THE EIGHTH DAY INSCRIBED TO AARON COPLAND
Harper & Row New York (1967) First Edition. Copy #5 of 500 numbered and 
SIGNED copies of this National Book Award winner. In addition to being 
signed on the limitation page, Wilder has INSCRIBED this copy on both 
the title page and the blank page facing it to composer Aaron Copland: 
"Presented to Aaron Copland on/the occasion of the tribute paid/to him 
on his 70th birthday by/the friends of the MacDowell/Colony/T.N.W." On 
the title page: "For Aaron/from/Thornton/with a long admiration 
and/indebtedness and affection./October 1970." Wilder has drawn a red 
box around "Aaron" and a blue box around "Thornton" with colored 
pencils. Copland, one of America's greatest composers and celebrators of 
the American spirit, had much in common with Wilder regarding themes and 
subjects. Copland composed the music for the 1940 film adaptation of OUR 
TOWN, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. After first meeting 
with Copland to discuss the project, Wilder said of him, "He's a very 
likeable fella." Wilder wrote most of OUR TOWN at the MacDowell Colony 
where Copland also wrote much of his masterwork, APPALACHIAN SPRING. An 
Association Copy of the first magnitude. Mild sunning to spine. Still 
Fine in glassine and slipcase, as issued.   $7500.00
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