^Lot 782 Igor Stravinsky

Signed book: Chroniques de Ma Vie (in two volumes). Paris: Denöel et Steele, 1935. Softcover, 4.75 x 7.5. Signed and inscribed in fountain pen (in French) to Edward Forbes on the title page of Volume I and dated Cambridge, November 27, 1939. Stravinsky was in Cambridge during the 1939–1940 academic year to deliver the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, later adapted into the book The Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons. The inscribee, Edward Forbes, was director of the Harvard Art Museums from 1909 to 1944. In fine condition, with expected mild toning to interior, mild toning and soiling to covers (covers of Volume II covers reattached, owner’s ink name to each volume, and a touch of wear at spine ends. The volumes are unexpectedly sturdy and well-preserved for this notoriously fragile edition, and the inscription and signature are bold and dark. Signed copies of Stravinsky’s books are very seldom encountered.