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Lot 45
Sale 5372 - Rare Books & Manuscripts
Apr 10, 2014
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1 vol.
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1 vol.
(Music.) Ives, Charles E. Essays Before A Sonata. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1920.
1st ed. 12mo, orig maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; corners slightly bumped, spine ends & joints a little scuffed. Eugene Ormandy's copy, with gift inscr from Roger [C. Dettmer] occupying most of the front paste-down. With Roger C. Dettmer's bookplate & early ownership signature of the American writer Robert Underwood Johnson on front free endpaper recto. Sound copy, as issued without d/j.
Author's first book.