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Lot 46
  • 46

Copland, Aaron.

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Description

  • Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, first edition signed and inscribed to david diamond by the composer ("Dear David: here 'tis with much affection Aaron Jan. '52")
45 pages, folio (c.31 x 23.4cm), possibly autograph pencil annotation to upper wrapper, pencil annotations by Diamond to the first song, cloth boards, New York, Boosey & Hawkes, 1951  

Catalogue Note

The American composer David Diamond (1915-2005) was the dedicatee of the first of these twelve songs, 'Nature, the gentlest mother'.