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1974011575NY: Privately published 1974. Private edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound musical score as performed on the opening night of February 25 1973 at theSchubert Theatre. 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 legendary producer and director Hal Prince's who both produced and directed A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC inscribed to him by Mathilde Pincus and Al Miller whose company was responsible for music supervision: April 12 1974 To Hal Price Another one to add to your collection of 'greats!' Our greatest esteem respect admiration - and love. Sincerely Mathilde and Al." It is also inscribed by composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim: "Wyth lots of Luv - Steve" which wittily Sondheim has written with Swedish grammatical notations this musical being based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. Typically there are about 12-18 bound musical scores per production. Never commercially sold only for private presentation. This copy especially rare in that along with Sweeny Todd it represents a highpoint in Prince and Sondheims collaboration besides being one of the highpoints in Sondheim's cannon. Squarish folio green cloth gilt titles front and spine. Privately published hardcover books
195871012New York: Random House 1958. First edition of this classic musical. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by Arthur Laurents Leonard Bernstein and inscribed by Stephen Sondheim on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by these three contributors. This is the first example we have seen. Rare and desirable. In 1947 Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents about collaborating on a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He proposed that the plot focus on the conflict between an Irish Catholic family and a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the Easter-Passover season. The girl has survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Israel; the conflict was to be centered around anti-Semitism of the Catholic "Jets" towards the Jewish "Emeralds" a name that made its way into the script as a reference. Eager to write his first musical Laurents immediately agreed. Bernstein wanted to present the material in operatic form but Robbins and Laurents resisted the suggestion. They described the project as "lyric theater" and Laurents wrote a first draft he called East Side Story. Only after he completed it did the group realize it was little more than a musicalization of themes that had already been covered in plays like Abie's Irish Rose. When he opted to drop out the three men went their separate ways and the piece was shelved for almost five years. In 1955 theatrical producer Martin Gabel was working on a stage adaptation of the James M. Cain novel Serenade about an opera singer who comes to the realization he is homosexual and he invited Laurents to write the book. Laurents accepted and suggested Bernstein and Robbins join the creative team. Robbins felt if the three were going to join forces they should return to East Side Story and Bernstein agreed. Laurents however was committed to Gabel who introduced him to the young composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim auditioned by playing the score for Saturday Night his musical that was scheduled to open in the fall. Laurents liked the lyrics but was not impressed with the music. Sondheim did not care for Laurents' opinion. Serenade ultimately was shelved. Laurents was soon hired to write the screenplay for a remake of the 1934 Greta Garbo film The Painted Veil for Ava Gardner. While in Hollywood he contacted Bernstein who was in town conducting at the Hollywood Bowl. The two met at The Beverly Hills Hotel and the conversation turned to juvenile delinquent gangs a fairly recent social phenomenon that had received major coverage on the front pages of the morning newspapers due to a Chicano turf war. Bernstein suggested they rework East Side Story and set it in Los Angeles but Laurents felt he was more familiar with Puerto Rican immigrants and Harlem than he was with Mexican Americans and Olvera Street. The two contacted Robbins who was enthusiastic about a musical with a Latin beat. He arrived in Hollywood to choreograph the dance sequences for The King and I and he and Laurents began developing the musical while working on their respective projects keeping in touch with Bernstein who had returned to New York. When the producer of The Painted Veil replaced Gardner with Eleanor Parker and asked Laurents to revise his script with her in mind he backed out of the film freeing him to devote all his time to the stage musical. West Side Story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s an ethnic blue-collar neighborhood in the early 1960s much of the neighborhood was cleared in an urban renewal project for the Lincoln Center which changed the neighborhood's character. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks from Puerto Rico are taunted by the Jets a white gang. The young protagonist Tony a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang's leader Riff falls in love with Maria the sister of Bernardo the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme sophisticated music extended dance scenes and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical includes "Something's Coming" "Maria" "America" "Somewhere" "Tonight" "Jet Song" "I Feel Pretty" "A Boy Like That" "One Hand One Heart" "Gee Officer Krupke" and "Cool". The original 1957 Broadway production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957 but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film of the same name directed by Robert Wise and Robbins starred Natalie Wood Richard Beymer Rita Moreno George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress and Best Picture. Random House hardcover books
1925RMILKIN00TWMethuen 1925. Very Good. Milne A. A. The King's Breakfast. Music by H. Fraser-Simson; Decorations by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen 1925. #18 of 100 signed copies. 17pp. Small folio. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped corners a few scratches and label discolored by its own adhesive. Signed by Milne Fraser-Simson and Shepard. Rare. Methuen unknown books
195679755New York: Coward-McCann 1956. First edition of "one of the best musicals of the twentieth century" The New York Times. Octavo original boards illustrated frontispiece of Andrews and Harrison. Signed by Alan Jay Lerner on the title page. Affixed to front free endpaper is a signed photograph of Julie Andrews and "with the compliments of Miss Andrews" affixed to the pastedown. Laid in signed photograph by Stanley Holloway Alfred P. Dolittle. The verso of the front free endpaper has a signed photograph of Rex Harrison affixed to it. On the dedication page is a card signed by Robert Coote Colonel Pickering and a signature of Wilfrid Hyde-White who played Colonel Pickering in the film version. There's also a magazine clipping of Harrison's behatted head also signed by him. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by David Lyons. My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins a phoneticist so that she may pass as a lady. The original Broadway and London shows starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success. It set a record for the longest run of any show on Broadway up to that time. It was followed by a hit London production a popular film version and many revivals. My Fair Lady has been called "the perfect musical". Coward-McCann hardcover books
196815318New York 1968. Near fine. Eight Kodak color transparency slides. 2" square with image area 1 3/8" x 15/16" approx. Date-stamped "MAR 68" to border of verso. No- tated 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 exceptional but presumably unpublished images of Jimi Hendrix performing at New York City's Hunter College on March 2 1968. Seven capture the guitar hero on stage: with his signature Stratocaster kneeling before a giant stack of amplifiers playing with his teeth etc. The eighth is a candid portrait likely snapped backstage. Though we've been unable to determine the photographer the photos are of clear professional caliber and bear a certain re- semblance to the work of legendary rock-and-roll photographer El- liott Landy. An iconic selection of original vintage slides capturing the signature style of a rock legend. unknown books
1955WRCAM55629Pennsylvania & New Jersey 1955. 130 black and white photographs from 2 x 3 1/2 inches to 8 x 10 inches almost all with printed captions in the margins dated May or June 1955 most also with manuscript captions written below the image in red or blue pencil. Plus two souvenir programs; one 6-x-9- inch promotional color photograph signed; and twenty 8 x 10-inch promotional black and white photographs most signed. Square folio. Contemporary red leatherette photograph album. Covers soiled front cover detached minor edge wear. One leaf detached minor wear to photographs album pages toned chipped and somewhat brittle. Very good. A fantastic personal photographic record of early rock and roll and country music stars from 1955 compiled by a woman named "Ann" who traveled to document her musical interests. Many of the photographs are non- professional and were likely taken by Ann or a friend or family member. Several of the professional pictures of country music artists - including Eddy Arnold Faron Young Porter Wagoner and the Maddox Brothers and Rose - are signed by the stars themselves. <br> <br> Two locations can be identified from the pictures Uncle Roy's Beautiful Sunset Park in Jennersville Pennsylvania and Circle A Ranch in Deer Park New Jersey but a variety of small clubs auditoriums jamborees and honky tonks are depicted. The album features mounted photographs capturing notable musicians such as Hank Thompson several photos including one of their tour bus Shorty Long Hank Snow Kenny Roberts Clair "Tiny" Mickey Sally Starr Mickie Evans Tim Holt the Tune Dusters the Eckert Family and others. One original photograph shows Ray Meyers an accomplished steel guitar player despite being born without arms signing an autograph with his right foot. The musician photographs are interspersed with some family photographs. <br> <br> Most notable are the dozen photographs featuring Bill Haley & His Comets at the height of their fame. Their most famous song "Rock Around the Clock" which is credited by some for bringing rock and roll music to the mainstream was released the year before and then featured in and popularized by the release of the film THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE in March 1955. Two of the Bill Haley photographs are signed though the compiler trimmed them a bit and a few of them feature Haley with various local women identified in the captions. <br> <br> Accompanying the album are twenty-one larger promotional photographs many of which are signed. These include Hank Snow color photo signed on verso; Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys signed by Snow in the image; another of Hank Snow by himself signed in the image; Faron Young signed in the image; Porter Wagoner Junior "Speedy" Haworth and Don Warden signed by all three in the image; Eddy Arnold signed in the image; Lash La Rue signed in the image; Jesse Rogers inscribed to "Ann" on verso; Maddox Bros. and Rose signed in bottom margin; the Eckert Family giant photographic postcard signed by all on verso; Rosie and Retta signed by Retta Maddox on verso; Gordon Terry "Champion Old- Time Fiddler" signed in the image; prolific singer-songwriter Jean Shepard with her signature on the verso; Lloyd Arnold inscribed on verso; Lloyd Arnold with his band the Rockin Drifters inscribed to "Ann" in the bottom margin; cowgirl TV hostess Sally Starr inscribed on the verso "To Ann Lovingly Sally Starr"; Don Reno & Red Smiley and the Tennessee Cut-Ups signed by the whole band on the verso; the Wilburn Brothers signed by both in the image; and a few unsigned photos including one featuring Jimmy Dean. There are also two souvenir programs laid in: a promotional program for Webb Pierce signed by him inside and a SOUVENIR PICTURE ALBUM GRAND OPRY with signatures by Kitty Wells and Lester Wilburn of the Tennessee Mountain Boys inside. <br> <br> A wonderful collection of early rock and roll and country music notables compiled by a fan in 1955 at the point when rock and roll was beginning to emerge in the popular culture. hardcover books
1974152441N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft Working script for the 1975 Andy Warhol-produced musical copy belonging to Monique van Vooren. Includes 36 additional unbound pages primarily revisions as well as twelve pages staple bound containing the bulk of dialogue for van Vooren's character Venus with name repeatedly circled in holograph pencil. Annotations throughout both copied and in holograph ink and pencil. Frequent annotated changes to sequence as well as dialogue missing sequential pages and unbound revisions reflect the continually changing and famously chaotic production. <br/><br/>From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. <br/><br/>The musical opened on January 29 1975 at the Little Theatre. It was a star-studded opening night and after party at Sardi's with Warren Beatty Andy Warhol Diane von Furstenberg Diana Vreeland Kurt Vonnegut Rex Harrison Yoko Ono and others in attendance. Unfortunately scathing reviews followed and after only four days and a run of ten performances the production closed on February 1 1974.<br/><br/>In 1970 John Phillips inspired by the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing conceived of a space-themed musical project a space opera originally entitled "Space" and spent the next five years on the project in its various incarnations. In 1974 Phillips' wife Genevieve Waite persuaded Andy Warhol to produce the project as a Broadway musical with Warhol's collaborator Paul Morrissey slated to direct. The project was renamed "Man on the Moon" with Waite von Vooren and Denny Doherty slated to star. Reportedly two weeks before opening night co-producer Richard Turley fired Morrissey installing a more experienced Broadway director uncredited who changed everything casting stage directions songs and script. <br/><br/>Phillips would later used some of the songs from the musical for the soundtrack of the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film "The Man Who Fell to Earth" starring David Bowie. In 2009 "Andy Warhol Presents Man on the Moon" was released as part of the "John Phillips Presents" series and included unreleased demos and songs recorded at a dress rehearsal at The Factory by Warhol.<br/><br/>Self wrappers integral with first page. 87 leaves with last page of text unnumbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus to Near Fine bound with ring binder mechanism lacking wrappers.<br/><br/>Twelve pages bound with staple to top left. Near Fine.<br/><br/>36 unbound pages Very Good to Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970146874N.p.: N.p. 1970. Archive of 288 vernacular color photographs of country music acts from the 1970s housed in a contemporary photo album with the subject of nearly every photograph identified by holograph ink captions. Occasional additional notations give a date range between 1972-1980 for the photographs with most being dated 1977-1979. <br/><br/>The photographs primarily consist of performers on stage indicating the photographer was near the stage with a strong sense of composition and timing. Photographs of performers casually posing for the camera indicate the photographer likely had backstage access for some of the performances. <br/><br/>Based on additional information in some of the handwritten captions the photographs were primarily taken at concerts or events in the Western New York region - Chautauqua Dunkirk Little Valley and Lakewood - all within an hour of each other as well as the nearby Erie County NY Fair and Expo and Pittsfield PA. Other locations include the New York State Fair and Pittsburgh PA. <br/><br/>Included are images of country music legends Johnny Cash Dolly Parton Loretta Lynn Conway Twitty Hank Snow June Carter Cash The Carter Family Minnie Pearl Tanya Tucker Tammy Wynette and Wanda Jackson. Also included are photographs of singers who while lesser known today were among the biggest stars of the era including Bobby Goldsboro Crystal Gayle Donna Fargo Freddy Fender Jeannie C. Riley Buddy Alan Charlie Walker Peggy Sue Bill Anderson Kenny Price LeRoy Van Dyke Lynn Anderson Jay Lee Webb Jean Shepard and Kitty Wells. Finally the album contains images of smaller and possibly even regional acts some of which appear unknown to us presenting a broad survey of a transitional era in country music as rock soul and pop began to fuse with the more traditional country sound that had begun declining in popularity toward the end of the previous decade. <br/><br/>For more details please inquire. <br/><br/>Photographs variously sized primarily 3.5 x 5 inches but up to 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Generally Near Fine. <br/><br/>Housed in an about Very Good generic photo album with starting and loss to the spine fraying and rubbing. Several internal pages loose or with dried glue leading to occasional slipping of the photographs. N.p. unknown 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1949001526Nashville TN: Acuff-Rose Publications 1949. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the front wrapper "My Best To You" Anita Carter and "Luck & Stuff" June Carter. June Carter of course later became the wife of Johny Cash and June and the Carter Family are Country Music legends. Signed material by members of the Carter Family from this era are exceedingly scarce.- as is this song book. 48 pages containing the music for 14 songs 17 photosincluding 4 portrait photos of the family and 4 biography pages. Bottom corner creases to the wrappers and pages and a 1" horizontal tear back wrapper and last 4 pages. This is a chance to own a truly unique piece of Country Music history. SIGNED. First Printing. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Acuff-Rose Publications Paperback books
194132370New York: G. Schirmer 1941. Early printing. Paperback. Near fine in original printed wrappers. The score is signed: "Samuel Barber / March '78.". Quarto. 9 x 12" single sheet laid into a printed folio entitled Samuel Barber Four Songs for Voice and Piano as issued. The text of the song is taken from a lyric by Agee that was first published in his first book Permit Me Voyage 1934 two years before the publication of Barber's signature work Adagio for Strings. The author and composer became friends after Barber famously set Agee's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 to music in 1948. <br/><br/> G. Schirmer paperback books
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
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
1973142586N.p.: N.p. 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. <br/><br/>Based on the 1950 Broadway play "Out of this World" by Cole Porter Dwight Taylor Reginald Lawrence. George Oppenheimer NY columnist playwright and screenwriter streamlined his interpretation for a tasteful revamp to fit a smaller stage. The musical opened Off-Broadway at the Equity Library Theatre in March 1973. Writer Howard Thompson wrote a review in the March 12 1973 edition of the New York Times calling out Joy Franz vocal talent as Juno in her rendition of "I Am Loved." <br/><br/>Set in Athens Greece. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for music and lyrics by Cole Porter book by George Oppenheimer suggested by Dwight Taylor Reginald Lawrence. 88 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-5-33. Mechanical duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books
1956145819N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway musical which opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22 1956 and ran for 383 performances before closing on February 23 1957. With a three page "prop inventory" bound in at the rear. <br/><br/>Based on a story by Will Glickman and Joseph Stein about an entertainer and his struggles in show business and conceived as a vehicle for Sammy Davis Jr. Davis' performance received rave reviews and helped to launch him beyond night clubs and into the superstardom he would see by the end of the decade.<br/><br/>Red titled Hart Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present with credits for writers Joseph Stein and Will Glickman and composers/lyricists Jerry Bock Larry Holofcener and George Weiss. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered "PROP INVENTORY - 2." Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good Plus with some slight staining wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver screw brads. N.p. unknown books
