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198130693New York: Japan House Gallery 1981. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stapled 4to. 29 pp. Cover design by Kiyoshi Kanai. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Japan House Gallery in the summer of 1981. Includes a preface by Hisayoshi Ota and an essay by John Cage as well as with notes on Japanese Music Notation by Kazuo Fukushima Pages 11 through 29 detail the 75 examples of Japanese music notation from the exhibit from the traditional to the contemporary. All text other than the illustrated wrap-around covers. Some light soiling to covers. Internally clean and unmarked. A verygood example overall of this scarce catalog. Japan House Gallery paperback books
1930008099Cambridge MA: Folk - Song Society of the Northeast 1930. RARE Worldcat shows 3 holdings worldwide all in Europe and no individual numbers found in any commercial database. The complete 12 issue run of this seminal folksong journal published 1930-1937 from the collection of noted folklorist Frank A. Hoffmann his folk music-inspired bookplate front paste down. Bound in green cloth with two black leather labels at spine lettered in gilt Near Fine staining to rear board and rear paste down the bulletins are all Fine. The Folk-Song Society was founded by Phillips Barry American academic and collector of traditional folk ballads in New England in 1930 and he edited this journal until his death in 1937. . First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Folk - Song Society of the Northeast Hardcover books
1863List315Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company 1863. First Edition. Fine. Manuel Fenellosa and his brother-in-law Manuel Emilio came to the United States from Spain in 1836 aboard the SS United States. They settled in Salem Massachussetts first forming a band and then a music school. They were friends of the publisher John P. Jewett who published their work and let them perform at his home. Jewett was also the publisher of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Both Fenellosa and Emilio composed works inspired by the abolitionist cause. Emilio composed a companion piece for John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Little Eva: Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel." Manuel's son Luis wrote A Brave Black Regiment the history of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment. Fenellosa composed this piece in 1863 with lyrics written by an unknown "R.T.L." He held a concert in 1864 after emancipation. <br /> <br /> A fine example beautifully preserved in self-wraps. OCLC 180868477 locating five copies. Oliver Ditson and Company unknown books
196426392New York: New School for Social Research 1964. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Tall folded single sheet of paper measuring 13 1/4" tall x 9 1.2" wide. A poster announcing a series of performances on April 24th 1964 at The New School for Social Research. The concert was entitled "A Concert Of 20th Century American Music" and featured such avant-garde composers and musicians as John Cage James Tenney and Charles Ives among other luminaries. Poster is in very good condition. Folded once horizontally. General light wear. Rubber-stamped images in blue and red. Quite a scarce piece of music ephemera. We could find no other copies. New School for Social Research unknown books
1807CAT000099Paris: Capelle et Renand 1807. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. A mixed set 11 volumes published 1807-1817. Volumes 2-10 in full acid calf worn spines dry and chipped one board detached others loose volume 1 in later half vellum and volume 11 in original wraps worn and chipped. A complete run of this annual of food and drink associated poetry and song. Volume 4 with a portrait of Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers who wrote most of the songs laid down and each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Size: 12mo duodecimo. 11-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Music. Inventory No: CAT000099. Capelle et Renand hardcover books
19412221693<p>4 bars of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby" boldly signed and inscribed 1941. 7 1/4" x 10" 1 page on yellow ledger sheet. Fine and superb example.</p><p>McHugh 1894-1969 was an American songwriter and sometime screen actor "The Helen Morgan Story" 1957; collaborated with lyricist Dorothy Fields for a number of well-known standards "I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street" both written in 1928.</p> books
197014433Poughkeepsie NY ca. 1970. Near fine. Two albums each oblong 4to. Measuring approximately 10.25” x 7” with 155 color photographs loosely mounted rectos only in corners. Album 1: Green faux-leather covers gilt title decoration to front sting bound 59 black paper leaves each with two photographs recto mounted 118 prints total; well preserved near fine. Album 2: Ivory faux-leather covers gilt title decoration to front 20 black paper leaves 19 with recto mounted photographs most two to a page final leaf blank; crease through center of front cover otherwise clean contents near fine. <br/><br/>A fantastic pair of albums capturing 1970 Poughkeepsie NY area regional country music acts venues and patrons. Prints almost entirely uniform in size measuring approximately 3.5” square many date stamped outside the image area. The first album shows spots in and around Poughkeepsie primarily the Brand X Corral bar on Rt. 94 in Vails Gate NY. Acts include Gil Rogers whose albums we suspect these were based on internal evidence The Country Cousins and Country Skyline. The second album follows Rogers down to West Virginia for his performance during the 1970 Eastern States Country Music Convention on the famed WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling’s Capitol Theater. Rogers recorded a handful of honky-tonk singles in the early 1970’s on the Stop label and enjoyed regional success as a performer for decades. These amateur images show the elaborate stage dress music gear and social settings of Woodstock-era country music. That famed festival was held less than a year earlier and some 35 miles from where most of the images shown here were snapped though one could be forgiven for guessing they were taken years and miles apart. An album that demonstrates how this blue collar form adhered to traditions and fans throughout the cultural sea changes of the late 1960s and early 70s and a colorful portrait of a working regional musician. hardcover books
04912Los Angeles: Sutton House 1935. Snickerty Nick with the Music<br/>Near Fine in original Printed Dust Jacket<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. Snickerty Nick & the Giant. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. Music by Charles Arthur Ridgway. Los Angeles San Franciso: Sutton House 1935.<br/><br/>Third edition the first with the music included. Quarto 9 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches; 242 x 183 mm. viii 1-81 1 blank 83-132 pp. Three full-page monotone plates facing pp. 16 20 & 42 eight full-page black & white drawings and two line drawings. Original 'bright yellow' cloth with pictorial stamping in black on the front cover in black. A near fine copy in the original yellow pictorial dust jacket some light chipping to extremities some tiny tape repairs otherwise an excellent example of a dust jacket that we have never seen before.<br/><br/>The differences between this and the 1933 edition are as follows: The title-page of the 1933 edition has the imprint Suttonhouse: Los Angeles 1933 whilst the 1935 edition has Suttonhouse Los Angeles San Francisco and no date the date 1935 is on the verso of the title-page. The text and illustrations are identical but the 'Suggestion for Production' p. 77- 80 in the 1933 edition has now been changed and extended to p. 81. Following p. 81 is an additional title-page for the music which follows from p. 85 through p. 132.<br/><br/>"The idea of the Selfish Giant in this play has been taken from the story of Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant. Spring would not come to his garden because he would not let the children play in it. It was always winter there. One morning he woke up hearing the music of a linnet singing in his garden. He jumped out of bed and saw a most wonderful sight "flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing" and in every tree was a little child; but one little boy was too tiny to climb the tree and the Giant's heart melted and he helped the little child into the tree. The little child kissed him and forever after the children played in the Giant's garden because his heart had softened through love of the little child. The children never saw the child again. But one day he came to the Giant who saw on the palms of the child's hands "the prince of two nails and the prince of two nails were on the little feet". The little child had come to take the Giant to play in his garden "which is Paradise." My indebtedness to this story is the character of the Selfish Giant. The little play of Snickerty Nick is not a dramatization of The Selfish Giant. <br/><br/>The character of Snickerty Nick is an original character and the play centers around him. The little boy is only a loving and beloved child and Spring and Winter are personified by faeries and gnomes. To Arthur Rackham I tender my most sincere thanks whose magic touch as in Peter Pan Grimm's Faery Tales and Undine making real all faeries and gnomes endears all child life to grown-ups as well as to children." Forward by Julia Ellsworth Ford.<br/><br/>This edition with the music not recorded in Riall<br/><br/>In over fifty-five years of specializing in the work of Arthur Rackham I have never seen the 1933 edition and I have only seen this 1935 edition once before - this copy which I sold in 1989. According to Riall see p. 180 the 1933 edition is listed as a "reprint of 1919 edition with same coloured illustrations. Bound in bright yellow cloth. 3 full page illustrations in full colour. 8 drawings in black and white. This edition has the music added at the end of the book."<br/><br/>OCLC locates just seven copies of the 1933 edition and twelve copies of the 1935 edition in libraries and institutions worldwide - none of the copies cited have any bibliographical details other than the book has 80 pp. 1933 or 132 pp. 1935. Both of these editions are unknown to The Arthur Rackham Society.<br/><br/>The two books were produced in 1933 & 1935 to accompany the first Hollywood production of Snickerty Nick on April 8th 1933. Julia Ellsworth Ford's famous little 'folk' play was directed by Pauline Parker. Los Angeles: Sutton House, 1935 unknown books
20956Known as "Gentleman Jim" this influential Country Western singer of the '50s and '60s achieved great popularity with such hits as "He'll Have to Go" 1960; he died at age 40 in a plane crash in Tennessee. Color IPS verso heavy stock 3½" X 5½" n.p. n.d. Near fine. Handsome color picture postcard issued by RCA Victor Records the recto featuring a nice half-length portrait of Reeves in tie and red sweater. Verso features message and address portions and across this in bold large script as red as his sweater Reeves writes "To / Donald / Best of luck always / Gratefully / Jim Reeves." The signature itself which runs from the lower left corner to the upper right corner measures a full 5½"! A superb example of this rarity. unknown books
1820651501820. Original calf-backed marbled boards 7 x 10 inches. "Universal Church" stamped in gilt on spines. Five Volumes with first page indexes approx. 225 pp. plus 8 additional loose leaves. Signatures loose page numbers erratic covers well worn. Text pages have been printed with staves musical notation and lyrics are added in ink. Manuscript music in various hands consisting mostly of hymns with some secular pieces from the origins of the Universal and Unitarian churches. Three of the books are titled for "treble" two with a printed label one hand-written and two of these have a similar song set although they include some different titles in different order so that the books do not appear to be a completely matched set for choristers. One book has the word "tenor" written in ink on the rear board with the ink ownership name of David West on the front pastedown and "Lyander W. Webb 15 August 1824" at the head of the index page. The fifth notebook is unmarked on the outside but has a manuscript note on the front pastedown: "Lyander W. Webb one of the members of the Universalist Church Choir." Some titles from these volumes: Surry Thanksgiving Miriams Song Canaan several versions Lancaster Dedication Exaltation- approximately twenty-five titles per book. The loose sheets have secular tunes primarily musical notation without lyrics with a few of the titles being: Hail Columbia "Nora's Song in the Poor Soldier" Washington's March Yankee Doodle The Plough Boy and Ramah Droog from the comic opera. Hail Columbia was originally written for and performed at Pres. George Washington's first inauguration in 1789.<br/>One book includes the hymn "Union" with words by "Rev. A. Kneeland" and by W. Dixon. Abner Kneeland 1774-1844 a pioneer evangelist and minister was a powerful if inconsistent advocate of Universalism for a quarter of a century beginning with the Winchester Convention of 1803. Kneeland Hosea Ballou and Edward Turner combined efforts to compile a new Universalist hymnal with Kneeland contributing about a third of the hymns "most of which have been judged to be inferior." After he left the Universalist fellowship in the 1830s he became the last man to be convicted of blasphemy in the state of Massachusetts. see his brief biography in the Unitarian Universalist Dictionary online <br/>Another tune called "Mount Vernon" comes from the psalms of David and was originally written by Isaac Watts 1674-1748 known as the founder of English hymnody. "This life's a dream an empty show; But the bright world to which I go Hath joys substantial and sincere; When shall I wake and find me there" Lyander W. Webb whose name appears in two of the notebooks may be Lyander Westram Webb 1805-1858 who was born in Philadelphia. Rev. Abner Kneeland was pastor of the Lombard Street church in Philadelphia from 1818 until his move to New York City in 1825. Webb later moved to Baltimore Maryland where the 1850 Census lists him as an engineer. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1977150818New York: Music Theatre International 1977. Vintage script for the 1977 Broadway revival of the 1971 musical. Copy belonging to actor Lennie Del Duca who played an unnamed apostle with his name to the title page in holograph ink and his holograph pencil annotations many of which are unfortunately now erased but some visible throughout. <br/><br/>Andrew Lloyd Webber's third musical following the final days in the life of Jesus Christ. The revival opened at the Longacre Theatre on November 23 1977 and ran for 96 performances before closing on February 12 1978. <br/><br/>Set in Jerusalem.<br/><br/>Mustard titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present undated with music credits to ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER and lyrics credits to TIM RICE. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-CC-51. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly soiled and edgeworn bound with two gold brads. Music Theatre International unknown books
1081930-1960. Popular and indigenous music published from 1946-1960. All in very good condition.8vo. Housed in a contemporary clam shell box. unknown books
1978144565Los Angeles: Filmways 1978. Original 16mm film reel for the 1978 animated short "Make Me Psychic" created by animator Sally Cruikshank and featuring music by the Cheap Suit Serenaders Robert Armstrong Allan Dodge and Paul Woltz. <br/><br/>"Make Me Psychic" a followup to her lauded short film "Quasi at the Quackadero" features Cruikshank's recurring duck characters Quasi and Anita in a psychedelic adventure in which Anita uses a hypnotizing machine to try and harness her psychic powers instead ending up hallucinating while never leaving her own overflowing bathtub. An innovator in her field with a signature flowing style of motion Cruikshank created music videos for Sesame Street between 1989 and 1999 won the 1986 Maya Deren Award given by the American Film Institute and "Quasi at the Quackadero" was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2009. <br/><br/>Near Fine housed in a Near Fine plastic film canister and a Very Good plus metal-cornered shipping box with Cruikshank's Berkeley address to the box and film reel. Filmways unknown books
1949139871Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear as well as a number of holograph annotations primarily denoting the titles of various musical numbers. <br/><br/>Based on the short story "Stork Don't Bring Babies" by S.K. Lauren Grable and Dailey play a showbiz couple who discover in successive order that they cannot have children that they can adopt children and that they aren't really fit to raise children. But things get better with the help of several musical numbers scored by Harold Arlen. <br/><br/>Bound in green faux leather boards with gilt titles and rule and marbled endpapers. Title page present dated Dec. 1 1949 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriters Trotti and Binyon. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/21/19 and 1/5/50. Pages Very Good plus photographs Near Fine with some bruising or chipping to the verso of the preceding page on either the top or bottom edge. Boards Near Fine with a bump to the upper rear corner. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1955149900Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Five vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film showing variously actors Marlon Brando Frank Sinatra composer Frank Loesser and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. <br/><br/>The first photo double weight shows Marlon Brando as Skye Masterson surreally <br/>socking one of his gangster companions in the nose. <br/><br/>The second photo shows Brando rehearsing "Luck Be a Lady" with sheet music in hand and with the song's composer Frank Loesser at the piano.<br/><br/>The third photo shows Sinatra and Brando in a candid moment.<br/><br/>The fourth photo single weight shows director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and dancer Carey Leverette relaxing contemplatively Mankiewicz sitting and smoking his pipe Leverette inside a large industrial exhaust pipe.<br/><br/>FIFTH PHOTO 149973 TBD KRJ<br/><br/>Based on the 1950 Broadway musical which was in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A serial gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br/><br/>Set in New York and Havana.<br/><br/>All photos: 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Near Fine overall variously with a few pinholes and very shallow creasing. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1961008126Wallasey Cheshire England: Spin Publications 1961. RARE. 61 magazines the complete run of one of Britain's early and iconic folk music revival magazines. All are Near Fine to Fine. 10 issues each in the first 3 volumes 6 each in Vols. 4-6 5 issues in Vol 7 Nos. 5 and 6 in a combined issue and 4 issues in Vols. 8 and 9. The first seven numbers of Vol. 1 printed as a duplicated 12 page stapled magazine in 300 copies. By the time of Vol. 1 No.7 the magazine had become so popular that it went into photo offset and 1000 copies were printed. Published out of Chelsea under the auspices of the the Liverpool Spinners and the Spinners Club the magazine's main focus was on British traditional folk music. Editor Beryl Davis was the wife of the Spinners singer Tony Davis. By 1965 it had grown to 500 readers with many in America. Covers in Vol. 2 included Martha & Huddie Ledbetter Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger while Vol. 3 No. 7's cover featured a then 24 year old Bob Dylan. Individual issues are SCARCE in todays market so to complete a full set would be a long term project. Worldcat notes 4 institutional holdings none of which have complete sets. Thus likely this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. . First Edition. Stapled Folder. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Various. Spin Publications Paperback books
1816046831Madrid: La Viuda de Aznar 1816. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Early tooled leather spine with raised bands marbled endpapers; water stains to endpapers and to bottom margin more or less throughout title stained scattered minor maginal stains small hole to corner of final leaf final music leaf with mild stains. viii 30 2pp with 17 leaves of printed music a few folding. <br/><br/>A scarce work on the guitar first published in 1799 - the first edition is rare this the second only slightly less so. About a dozen copies of the second edition in OCLC rare in commerce. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Music; Inventory No: 046831. La Viuda de Aznar hardcover books
13110Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An interesting collection of detailed original Japanese drawings showing the construction and decoration of Imperial Court instruments. 39 x 27 cm 15 x 10.5 in. 12 pp. Bound with a single string.  Pen and ink on very delicate rice paper. Slight chipping/small tears to outer edge central vertical crease overall fine.  Undated ca. 1900. <br style=""> unknown books
110658New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library. Rare original Silk Stockings shooting script with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Quarto original black Hart Stenographic Bureau leatherette wrappers bound and bradded. In near fine condition. Annotations throughout. Accompanied by the vocal part of Ninotchka which is in fine condition. Loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel story 'Ninotchka' Silk Stockings premiered on Broadway in 1955 and was the final musical that Cole Porter wrote for the stage. The production opened Broadway on February 24 1955 at the Imperial Theatre and closed on April 14 1956 after 478 performances. Tams-Witmark Music Library hardcover books
1815544Harrisburg: Gedruckt bey Johan Wyeth Buchhändler in Harrisburg bey Conrad Doll Lancaster und bey Jacob Doll Yorktaum 1815. Oblong 8vo. 145 x 285 mm. 5 ¾ x 11 inches. Contemporary leather spine over marbled paper boards; spine cracked and boards loose but only partially intact partial loss of marbled paper on both boards; paper stock aged brown. Ownership mark of David Stauffer with inscriptions dated 1840 and 1850. With faults a complete copy. Harrisburg: Gedruckt bey Johan Wyeth 1815. WITH: . Oblong 8vo. 145 x 265 mm. 5 ¾ 10 ½ inches; 120 pp. Contemporary leather spine blue paper covered boards; binding a bit scuffed and soiled paper stock toned brown with age otherwise a very good copy. Together two parts published in two volumes five years apart; rare survival. Doll's two volumes of church music are the earliest German language music books to use type to print the notes. The type font was called four-shape note system. It copied the type created and first used by Little and Smith in The Easy Instructor published in 1801 and was used by John Wyeth without acknowledgement. In addition to introducing this type to the Pennsylvania German tune-book tradition Wyeth was responsible for the development of Southern folk hymnody. E. C. Wolf records that the 1810 edition was reprinted in 1814 and again in 1821; in 1815 a second volume was issued with a similar title but different content." Shaw and Shoemaker American Bibliography 19986 34588 Arndt German Language Printing 1736 2081. E. C. Wolf Lutheran Hymnody and Music Published in America p. 178. Gedruckt bey Johan Wyeth Buchhändler in Harrisburg, bey Conrad Doll, Lancaster, und bey Jacob Doll, Yorktaum unknown books
1979011573NY: Privately published 1979. Private edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Bound musical score as performed on the opening night of March 1 1979 at the Uris Theater. Bound musical scores are privately published a project usually undertaken by the music preparation supervisor and then presented to producers and creative principals as a momento or official record of the music as presented opening night. This copy is inscribed by Mathilde Pincus and Al Miler whose company was responsible for music supervision on Sweeney Todd to Ruth Mitchell who was director Hal Prince's assistant on the musical and his long-time associate producer on most of his Broadway shows: "To Ruth we thank you as part of the production staff for this great great work and we love you as a great friend - and sincere. Sincerely - with much love - Mathilde and Al". Typically there are about 12-18 bound musical scores per production. Never commercially sold only for private presentation. Squarish folio green cloth gilt titles front and spine some speckles of white bookhelf paint front cover. Privately published hardcover books
186621446European Origin: Not Published 1866. Album of materials gathered by John Henry Cornell 1828-1894 American musical author organist and composer ".a solidly trained composer of church-music part-songs and songs.an erudite and methodical student of theory and an able author and translator." Grove; educated in New York England and Germany in 1866 he traveled once again to Europe visiting historic sites and his musical peers collecting photographs autographic materials and ephemera along the way that are preserved here; Approximately 100 pages with items usually tipped-on to one side only; including photographs of composers usually standard carte-de-visite size of fellow musicians & others including: 3 Photos on the same page of musicians Carl Reinecke 1824 - 1910 Danish composer; Ferdinand David 1810-1873 German virtuoso violinist and composer; Alexander Dreyschock 1818-1869 Czech pianist and composer; trombone virtuoso Moritz Nabich 2 one with his instrument and others of Madame and Fraulein Nabich; King John of Saxony; Fraulein Suvanny Soubrette at the Leipzig Theatre; German actress Hedwig Raabe 1844-1905 with a clipped signature - and on the same page a photo of Franz Buchner Orchestral Director with a small inscribed card; German painter Peter von Cornelius 1784-1867; a cdv-size photo of A.J. Boekelman musical director from Utrecht with inscribed card; photo of Hungarian composer pianist conductor and arranger Károly Carl Thern 1817- 1886 with clipped signature; U.S. Consul Dickinson of Indiana see below in printed ephemera for a bit more on this man; photo of Father Skelly O.S.B. Kilkenny Ireland - and almost 20 additional portrait photographs of presumed musical peers and their families some of these with signed inscriptions that have so far eluded identification; Also including and laid-into the album loosely or on pages trimmed from the album: Moritz Hauptmann 1792-1868 a small photo and two small clipped notes signed a few inches square one tipped-on below the image another note on a tipped-on card 2" x 3" loose; below the image of Hauptmann is a photo of Isaac Ignaz Moscheles 1794-1870; on another sheet Franz Wilhelm Abt 1819-1885 autograph 7-line note signed with cdv-size photo with a clipped greeting on card tipped in below the image - another unidentified musician's image above also with a signed photo & card and on the back of the sheet with the letter another two images one with signed card; Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans 1812-1875 and a photo of his wife both inscribed; on a loose sheet the obituary of Cornell noting his musical career marriage education and travels and that he at one time had taken Roman Catholic religious orders in Baltimore and had died within the Episcopal Church with selections of his compositions played at the funeral service held at Trinity Chapel in New York City - here are a signed card of William Reed Huntington of Grace Church 1838-1900 and an autograph of Morgan Dix 1827-1908 both men prominent leaders of the Episcopal Church of the U.S. in the 19th century - Dix was one of the officiants at Cornell's funeral - on the back of this loose sheet is a cabinet card photograph of an image of W.A. Mozart; Printed ephemera including: A 3" x 5" card printed black on pink with humorous musical-themed imagery announcing "Klapperkasten Moscheles-Abend Leipzig d. 12 May 1866 im Schutzenhaus" with a small circular albumen photo image of the composer at the side a younger cdv-size image of Moscheles and above another printed note accomplished in hand to John Cornell regarding Klapperkasten; a card printed black on blue stock "Soiree musicale von Nabich Posaunen-Virtuos" 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" - old fold line good cond. loose and a "Groot Concert te geven door den heer Moritz Nabich.B. Van der Eijken.J. Hrimaly." with the program below in which 2 pieces are by Cornell - approx. 8" x 4" Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem imprint below - on the back of this loose sheet are two photographs of architecture one identified as the "House of W. Vorschuur" and three cdv-size photos: one of Dutch painter Wouterus Verschuur 1812 -1874 and his son W. Verschuur Jr. also a painter - both signed directly below their portraits on the photos and one of the performers on the concert program Czech violinist Jan Hrimaly 1844-1915; a broadside announcement for a "Musikalische Soiree" Im Saale des Hotel de Prusse with the program printed by Julius Krampe with 2 Cornell pieces played 8 1/2" x 5" one edge with some creasing wrinkling still very good; a Soiree Musicale with Moritz Nabich and Mejufvrouw Boekelman and list of works printed by Van Munster & Zoon 8" x 5" and with 2 Cornell works played too with a couple closed edge-tears and creases good; another loose piece of ephemera 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" a menu-card dinner-choice text handwritten and the rest printed by Friedrich Daehne and noted below by Cornell as "Bill of fare of our 4th of July Dinner." - on back is noted ".with U.S. Consul T. Y. Dickinson Jas. Wilson of Newport R. I. and others Leipzig"; an announcement of a concert 10" x 7 1/2" "Jena. Montag den 19. Februar 1866 im Rosensaale Concert des Academ. Gesangvereins." with the program of music tipped-on is most of a map published by C.H. Wogan "The Strangers Guide to Dublin" approx. 6" x 8" one side trimmed close with loss to two of the corner vignettes; also a folding 12" x 15" map of Berlin by Baldwin & Cradock trimmed close to the neat line all around; a curious advert for a moisturizing rejuvenating apparatus not illustrated clipped from a periodical for "Regenerators" of Leo Bohlius a hairdresser in Germany; with some additional newspaper clippings of the time and a few later also tipped-in or loose; with approximately 150 additional architectural scenery & art photos from the time averaging 3" x 3" size with a few larger images; the photos are of locales in Kilkenny Quenstown Ireland; various places in Wales & England; Altenburg Leipzig Dresden Hanover Germany; Brussels Belgium and other places; including a small photo of the Kristallnacht-destroyed synagogue of Leipzig; and another noted as the "Old Opera-House in Dresden as I saw it. Burnt down."; among these are about 10 ethnic European costume photos in cdv size also; the album approx. 13" x 11" size; the sheets only no covers; still loosely bound; many pages edge-chipped and the paper quality good; the first page with old discoloration and the "Ireland" scenery photos on that page chipped torn and worn; as noted above there are many loose and cut-out pieces - the evidence is within the album of where some of these may originally have been located - all this seems to be done by a very unskilled hand perhaps a childish effort; some leaves obviously and crudely excised at some time; by and large the photographs & ephemeral items in good condition; good also to have included here the final materials recording his obituary & death; a very interesting compendium of visual and textual information especially regarding the Romantic composers of Europe and their association with their American counterpart; we note that one of the loose albume pages contains a group of material regarding the wife of Martin Luther; including a photographic reproduction of an engraving depicting the ruins of the Kloster Nimbschen by Selbstverlag V. Peters Leipz. approx. 3" x 4" in black and white identified below as "Ruins of Nimbshcen Convent of which Katharine Bora was a member."; with an unknown gentleman's carte-de-visite-sized photo-portrait circa 1860s; with an albumen photograph also carte size approx. 2 1/4" x 3" of a portrait identified below of Katharina von Bora Luther 1499-1552 wife of Martin Luther the German leader of the Protestant Reformation; and tipped-on is a 1" x 1 3/4" thin beige leather fragment having evidence of tiny stitching and some threading around 3 edges of a "Piece of Katharine Bora's slipper" identified in the same handwriting as the above items; ".According to Dr. Stefan Rhein Director of Luther monuments in the state of Sachsen-Anhalt.Katharine von Bora was Luther's companion and equal partner the picture of a self-assured self-confident liberated woman at the side of her husband. But this most important woman of the Reformation period of the 16th century is relatively unknown for she lived in the shadow of her powerful husband." Erwin Weber Lutheran Journal 1999; for the future of the Protestant Christian faith Luther's marriage established the validity of marriage within the clergy as well as focusing attention on the importance of inspirational strong women in early Protestantism; the items with some ageing darkening; the old backer paper with some tears cutouts from paper probably from a larger sheet; list of items on the page written in a later hand in top left corner; the items in very good condition and an interesting fragment of the life of this important Lutheran woman. Manuscript. No Covers. Good. Not Published Paperback books
196815319New York 1968. Near fine. Eight Kodak color transparency slides. 2" square with image areas 1 3/8" x 15/16" approx. Date stamped "MAR 68" to border of verso. Notated in ink outside of image area with names numbers. Clean well preserved. Near fine. High-resolution jpgs of all images provided. <br/><br/>A collection of presumably unpublished images of Jim Morrison at New York's Fillmore East March 22 1968. Three of Morrison on stage two pictured with five intimate close-ups likely captured backstage. A particularly poignant shot has him leaning into the microphone with a light projection behind. This two-night four-show Fillmore engagement produced what are often considered some of the best shows of the band's career. Though we've been unable to determine the pho- tographer they are of clear professional caliber and bear a certain resemblance to the work of legendary rock-and-roll photographer Elliott Landy. A striking group of original vintage slides. unknown books
1900D10896America England et al 1900-1970s. Sheet Music. Very Good. A massive collection of more than 700 pieces of sheet music each title in an archival sleeve -- just a small handful of duplicates. Condition varies from Good some chipping and dust-soiling to Fine though generally Very Good. Spanning decades the bulk are published in New York Chicago Detroit and London but also include Rome Hollywood San Francisco and beyond. Composers include Harold Adamson Mack Gordon Vincent Youmans Irving Berlin Lew Brown Alfred Bryan Sammy Cahn B. G. De Sylva Ray Henderson Al Dubin Arthur Freed Nacio Herb Brown George and Ira Gershwin Oscar Hammerstein Richard Rodgers Otto Harbach Paul Francis Webster Gus Kahn Edgar Leslie Sam Lewis Joe Young Jay Livingston Ray Evans Frank Loesser Cole Porter Leo Robin and others. Arranged for intermediate pianists but including a few pieces for beginners and most with chord progressions for ukulele and/or guitar styles include fox trots waltzes ballads war-time songs holiday songs and songs from Broadway Disney and film. Please inquire for a full list. <br/><br/> unknown books
195515414New York: Passantino 1955. Original wraps. Near Fine. A wonderful piece of theatre history the original 1955 program for Truman Capote's "House of Flowers". THIS COPY IS NOT ONLY SIGNED BY TRUMAN CAPOTE on the title page next to his printed name BUT IS ALSO INSCRIBED BY HAROLD ARLEN WHO WROTE THE MUSIC FOR THE PLAY TO PEARL BAILEY THE PLAY'S LEAD. This inscription appears next to Arlen's printed name on the title page as well. The program itself is clean and Near Fine in its stapled yelow wrappers with very faint creasing along the panels. Tall thin quarto crisp black-and-white photos thruout of the principals involved in the production and performance of the play. <br/><br/> Passantino paperback books
