Berlin

1925 · 22717E — New York: Putnam 1925. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the book’s subject American composer and lyricist Irving Berlin in the year of publication. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Min from Irv Palm Beach - 1925â€. Frontispiece portrait drawing of Irving Berlin by Neysa McMein. Top edge gilt. A lightly handled copy some mottling and minor rubbing to the dark green cloth and a bit of spotting to the fore edge without dust jacket. Irving Berlin 1888 - 1989 was one of the most beloved and best known songwriters in the Great American Songbook whose prolific body of work includes such classics as Alexander’s Ragtime Band his first international hit Easter Parade Puttin’ on the Ritz Cheek to Cheek White Christmas Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better There’s No Business Like Show Business and God Bless America. Putnam hardcover books