August 2021 Catalogue

“Soon Shall Your Eyes Search The Foul Garden, Search The Darkened Rooms, Nor Find One Jewel But The Blazing Log” 55. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Autograph manuscript poem signed. Paris, France, August 18, 1886. Single unlined ecru sheet, measuring 7 by 7-1/2 inches; pp. 1; matted and framed in an antique frame, entire piece measures 13 by 10-1/2 inches. $12,500. Autographmanuscript of the published version of the poem, “ToMrsWill H. Low,” first published a year later in A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods, signed and dated by Robert Louis Stevenson. The copy of Mrs. Low, accompanied by the autograph explanatory note extracted from the back of the original 19th-century frame. While by all appearances a fair copy of the published version, this poemwas actually handwritten by Stevenson two years prior to publication. This poem was the copy of the poem’s dedicatee, Mrs. Will H. Low, and is accompanied by part of the original cardboard backing from the 19th- century frame in which it was originally housed (now housed in portfolio). That backing bears an autograph address label for Mrs. Low, as well as an autograph notation in an unknown hand explaining provenance. A few tiny chips to top edge just touching “Low” in heading, mild discoloration from prior framing including faint traces of patterned offsetting. Extremely good condition. Inscribed By Stravinsky 56. STRAVINSKY, Igor. Photograph inscribed. No place, 1950. Black-and-white postcard portrait, measuring 3-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 9-1/2 by 12 inches. $2200. Postcard photograph of Igor Stravinsky, inscribed: “Pour Monsieur Maurice Dubois avec mes meilleurs compliments, Igor Stravinsky, 1950.” “Few 20th-century composers enjoyed international influence and importance equal to that of Stravinsky… For many years he was, with Schoenberg, one of the two unofficial poles of Western music” (ANB). The postcard portrait is dated September 1948, and is attractively matted and framed with a page of music from Stravinsky’s Four Etudes . An attractive inscribed and signed framed piece in fine condition. F r a m e d ! 2 0 2 1 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s 47 46