Full score. Small 8vo. [iii], 43pp.  [PN] 3527. Boldly signed and inscribed on the title page in black fountain pen ink by the composer, "To Moses Smith le très bien musicien / I. Stravinsky / NY / 30th Sept 39."  Some performance markings in colored pencils, browned tape remnants to one inside joint, otherwise  fine and contained in a custom crimson cloth box.

The music critic Moses Smith is perhaps best remembered for his biography of Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  The book, “Koussevitzky,” was published in 1947, but only after legal efforts by the conductor to block its publication. Koussevitzky considered the book libelous and an invasion of his privacy and sued Smith and the publisher for $500,000 but lost.

Composed in Stravinsky's neoclassical period, the Concerto in E-flat, inscribed Dumbarton Oaks, 8.v.38 (1937–38) is one of the composer's two chamber concertos, and is named for the Dumbarton Oaks estate of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss in Washington, D.C., who commissioned it for their thirtieth wedding anniversary.