Accession number:
PML 196112
Published:
Paris : Hours Press, 1930.
Description:
1 score ([8], 20 p.) ; 33 cm
Credit:
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund, 2014.
Notes:
Cover title lacks hyphenation and order of contributors differs from title page: "Poems by Richard Aldington Harold Acton Nancy Cunard Walter Lowenfels Samuel Beckett".
"Paris, Imp. Française de musique. XXX"--P. 20.
Poems printed first as texts (p. [2]-[8]), followed by printed music and lyrics.
"This edition is limited to 100 signed copies, privately printed."--Verso of title page. An additional 50 out-of-series copies were issued.
Library's copy signed and unnumbered.
Binding:
Pictorial buff boards photo-illustrated by Man Ray. Housed in blue leather drop-spine box, decorated on front with black and white inlaid design in the shape of an LP, title and authors stamped in silver.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Presentation inscription by Crowder on limitation page: For the Bec[h]ats [sic?]. Marvelous people. Lovely friends. Success & happiness."
Provenance:
From the collection of Sidney Bechet; by descent to Daniel Sidney Bechet (his father's sale, Delorme & Collin du Bocage, no. 33, hors catalogue).
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