[Rarebooks] FS: Thornton Wilder INSCRIBED to Aaron Copland, price reduced
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Fri Jun 1 13:10:46 EDT 2018
Price reduced to $4500 NET
WILDER, Thornton. THE EIGHTH DAY INSCRIBED TO AARON COPLAND. New York:
Harper & Row, (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, the author 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, for which he was nominated for two Academy Awards. The film itself
was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture, but did not win
any. 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 the spine. Still Fine in glassine and slipcase, as issued.
(#012070) $7,500.00
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