Charles Ives, Charles Ives Signed Offprint with Yale Photographic Yearbook (1898)

Charles Ives
Charles Ives Signed Offprint with Yale Photographic Yearbook (1898)

USA

[IVES, Charles (1874-1954), composer]. "Charles Edward Ives."? From?The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: James T. White & Co., 1942.12mo (125 x 85 mm). Original gray wrappers, stapled (slight toning to extremities); custom folding case. Provenance: Ernest Fred Manfred (b. 1905), American autograph collector (inscription on the front flyleaf).SIGNED BY IVES, AND INSCRIBED BY HARMONY IVES (1876-1969), his wife and frequent scribe, on his behalf: "To Ernest Fred Manfred with Kind regards Chas. E. Ives." Charles Ives was a pioneering American modernist composer whose innovative music earned him increasing recognition during his lifetime, culminating in the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 3. As declining health and hand tremors impaired his ability to write, Ives increasingly relied on his wife to assist with his correspondence.[With:] [Charles Ives.] [Yale Photographic Yearbook]. New York: Pach Bros., Photographers,? 1898. Oblong folio. Photographs mounted on cardstock, including individual portraits of faculty and students, images of buildings, grounds, athletic events, music clubs, and class photographs. (Some toning.) Original black roan, upper cover gilt-lettered, edges gilt (rebacked with some repairs, some wear and scuffing). Provenance: W.P. Benjamin (gilt-lettered front cover). Including an individual portrait of Ives with his signature reproduced beneath.

Provenance: Collection of Michael Tilson Thomas

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