SIGNED BY AARON COPLAND

COPLAND, Aaron. Poet’s Song. [New York]: Boosey & Hawkes, 1967. Quarto, original self wrappers; pp. 4. $350.

Early edition, piano-vocal score, signed by Copland on the first page of music.

With lyrics by e. e. cummings: “In spite of ev’rything / which breathes and moves, Since Doom / (with white longest hands / neatening each crease) / will smooth entirely our minds / before leaving my room / I turn, and (stooping / through the morning) kiss / this pillow dear / where our heads lived and were.”

A fine signed copy.