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19395613New York: Harcourt Brace and Company Inc 1939. First Edition. Saroyan's second play. "It is the story of a poet and his son Johnny and their effort to make the world realize that it must have poetry; of Jasper MacGregor "the greatest Shakespearean actor who ever lived" who plays marvelous music on the bugle; of people and their laughter and their weeping" from front flap. Music by Paul Bowles also titled "My Heart's In The Highlands" appears on pp.105-108 with printed music for voice oboe trumpet bass drum and Hammond Organ. A well-preserved copy and uncommon signed. Miller B2. First Printing one of 1000 copies. Octavo 22cm; pale grey linen with titles stamped in red and blue on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; 67-1404pp. Signed by Paul Bowles at his contribution on p.105. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $2.00 with light wear to extremities a few tiny tears at crown and a strip of tape reinforcement on verso of same. Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc unknown
1972659c9719New York: International Music Company 1972. Sheet music. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 8 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. International Music Company Paperback
198728111Bombay Mumbai Somaiya Publications 1987 hardcover. The diversity of musical theory as seen through author's gurus Sanskrit syntax structures of beauty in music anti-music new music sastric traditions of Indian culture as well as Western aesthetic theory. -- Hardcover 228 pages. Condition: very good minus cover is stained and wavy as usual with Indian publications; owner name with very good dust jacket. Somaiya Publications hardcover
19808367Oakland: X-Capees Press 1980. Very Good. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. 0937516007 . 60 pp.; 8" x 9"; photo-illustrated black wrappers; black & white photographs throughout with captions. Light soil to white back cover otherwise minor wear to corners. Signed on the lower right corner of title page by the photographers and writer plus a signature of a Danny English on upper left of title. We don't grok who Danny is in relation to the publication.; Signed by Authors . (X-Capees Press) (1980) paperback
1926023512Hollywood: David Graham Fischer Corporation 1926. First Edition . Boards. Very Good. Frontispiece. 43 Pp. Boards Aged / Browned A Little Bumping To Corners Paper Cover Label Undamaged. Per Wikipedia Charles Wakefield Cadman 1881 - 1946 Was An American Composer. For 40 Years He Worked Closely With Nelle Richmond Eberhart Who Wrote Most Of The Texts To His Songs Including Four American Indian Songs. She Also Wrote The Librettos For His Five Operas Two Of Which Were Based On Indian Themes. He Composed In A Wide Variety Of Genres. He Was Greatly Influenced By American Indian Music Which He Had Been Studying Especially Through The Work Of Ethnologists Alice Fletcher And Francis La Flesche. Fletcher And La Flesche Had Studied The Omaha Tribe And Recorded Their Music And Stories. Having Published Several Articles On American Indian Music Cadman Became Regarded As One Of The Foremost Experts On The Subject. In 1908 He Began Touring To Present Lectures Known As The "Indian Talk" Or "Indian Music Tour" Accompanied By The Performance Of Native American Music And His Own Compositions. Tsianina Redfeather Muscogee / Cherokee Billed As "Princess Redfeather" Performed As A Singer On Some Of His Tours. Her Signature Song Was Cadman's "From The Land Of The Sky-Blue Water". Another Such Song Was "At Dawning" Which Became Widely Known In The 1920S. Cadman Toured Both The Us And Europe For 25 Years To Present This Lecture. Cadman Drew From Omaha And Iroquois Songs For His Four American Indian Songs Op. 45 Which Became His First Commercial Success In 1909. This Was Aided By Performances Of These Songs By Noted Soprano Lillian Nordica Who Was On A Concert Tour. In The Summer Of 1909 He Went To Nebraska To Study The Music And Traditional Instruments Of The Omaha And Winnebago Tribes. He Lived With The People On Their Reservations Learning To Play Their Instruments. During His Trip To The West He Met Francis La Flesche An Omaha Ethnologist Who Was Working With The Smithsonian Institution On Studies Of The Omaha And Osage Peoples. Cadman Assisted Him In Making Recordings On Wax Cylinders Of Traditional Songs. These Works Are Now Held By The Library Of Congress And Some 60 Songs Are Available Online. Cadman Drew From La Flesche's Recordings And He Was Also Interested In His Stories Collected From These Peoples. They Began Work That Year On An Opera; Cadman Had Already Started To Pull Melodies From Three Printed Collections Of Omaha And Pawnee Music Published By Ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher Who Also Was With The Smithsonian. The Songs Were Transcribed Or Harmonized By Others. Cadman And Eberhart Worked Closely With La Flesche By Mail And He Continued To Provide Cadman With Omaha Melodies For The Opera. They Were Not Permitted To Use Melodies Which La Flesche Had Collected For An As Yet Unpublished Report For The Smithsonian. Together With Librettist Nelle Richmond Eberhart Cadman And La Flesche Worked Together For About Three More Years To Create An Opera Based On Omaha Stories And Music. Cadman Made Occasional Indian Music Tours To Raise Money For The Project. He Moved To Denver In 1911. Cadman Completed The Music For Da O Ma 1912 And Sought A Venue For It But It Was Never Produced Or Published. It Was Rejected By The Boston Opera Company The White-Smith Music Publishing Company Which Had Published Numerous Songs By Cadman; And The Metropolitan Opera. In The Course Of Their Work The Team Had Changed The Opera From An Omaha To Sioux Lakota/Dakota Setting. Cadman Did Gain Some Distribution For This Music: Selections From The Opera Were Published By White-Smith In 1917 As A Piano Suite And By Boosey In 1920 As An Orchestral Suite. <br/> <br/> David Graham Fischer Corporation hardcover
1926024029Hollywood: David Graham Fischer Corporation 1926. First Edition . Boards. Very Good. Frontispiece. 43 Pp. Boards Aged / Browned A Little Bumping To Corners Paper Cover Label Undamaged Music Company Stamp On Front Endpaper. Per Wikipedia Charles Wakefield Cadman 1881 - 1946 Was An American Composer. For 40 Years He Worked Closely With Nelle Richmond Eberhart Who Wrote Most Of The Texts To His Songs Including Four American Indian Songs. She Also Wrote The Librettos For His Five Operas Two Of Which Were Based On Indian Themes. He Composed In A Wide Variety Of Genres. He Was Greatly Influenced By American Indian Music Which He Had Been Studying Especially Through The Work Of Ethnologists Alice Fletcher And Francis La Flesche. Fletcher And La Flesche Had Studied The Omaha Tribe And Recorded Their Music And Stories. Having Published Several Articles On American Indian Music Cadman Became Regarded As One Of The Foremost Experts On The Subject. In 1908 He Began Touring To Present Lectures Known As The "Indian Talk" Or "Indian Music Tour" Accompanied By The Performance Of Native American Music And His Own Compositions. Tsianina Redfeather Muscogee / Cherokee Billed As "Princess Redfeather" Performed As A Singer On Some Of His Tours. Her Signature Song Was Cadman's "From The Land Of The Sky-Blue Water". Another Such Song Was "At Dawning" Which Became Widely Known In The 1920S. Cadman Toured Both The Us And Europe For 25 Years To Present This Lecture. Cadman Drew From Omaha And Iroquois Songs For His Four American Indian Songs Op. 45 Which Became His First Commercial Success In 1909. This Was Aided By Performances Of These Songs By Noted Soprano Lillian Nordica Who Was On A Concert Tour. In The Summer Of 1909 He Went To Nebraska To Study The Music And Traditional Instruments Of The Omaha And Winnebago Tribes. He Lived With The People On Their Reservations Learning To Play Their Instruments. During His Trip To The West He Met Francis La Flesche An Omaha Ethnologist Who Was Working With The Smithsonian Institution On Studies Of The Omaha And Osage Peoples. Cadman Assisted Him In Making Recordings On Wax Cylinders Of Traditional Songs. These Works Are Now Held By The Library Of Congress And Some 60 Songs Are Available Online. Cadman Drew From La Flesche's Recordings And He Was Also Interested In His Stories Collected From These Peoples. They Began Work That Year On An Opera; Cadman Had Already Started To Pull Melodies From Three Printed Collections Of Omaha And Pawnee Music Published By Ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher Who Also Was With The Smithsonian. The Songs Were Transcribed Or Harmonized By Others. Cadman And Eberhart Worked Closely With La Flesche By Mail And He Continued To Provide Cadman With Omaha Melodies For The Opera. They Were Not Permitted To Use Melodies Which La Flesche Had Collected For An As Yet Unpublished Report For The Smithsonian. Together With Librettist Nelle Richmond Eberhart Cadman And La Flesche Worked Together For About Three More Years To Create An Opera Based On Omaha Stories And Music. Cadman Made Occasional Indian Music Tours To Raise Money For The Project. He Moved To Denver In 1911. Cadman Completed The Music For Da O Ma 1912 And Sought A Venue For It But It Was Never Produced Or Published. It Was Rejected By The Boston Opera Company The White-Smith Music Publishing Company Which Had Published Numerous Songs By Cadman; And The Metropolitan Opera. In The Course Of Their Work The Team Had Changed The Opera From An Omaha To Sioux Lakota/Dakota Setting. Cadman Did Gain Some Distribution For This Music: Selections From The Opera Were Published By White-Smith In 1917 As A Piano Suite And By Boosey In 1920 As An Orchestral Suite. <br/> <br/> David Graham Fischer Corporation hardcover
1926107c6893London: Boosey & Co. 1926. Sheet music. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 5 pages of sheet music. Average wear. Few markings. Boosey & Co. Paperback
1950572482Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Co 1950. Softcover. Near Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Very light creasing and toning else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 79087-5 with "No. 131-41035" on page three. The back cover features samples of "The House by the Side of the Road" "My Lover is a Fisherman" "Drake's Drum" and "Goin' Home." OCLC locates three holdings. Theodore Presser Co unknown
1950580669Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Co 1950. Softcover. Near Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Light toning and light edgewear including a nick at the bottom of the back cover still near fine. For medium or low voice and piano. Plate number 79089-4 with 131-41037 on the front cover. The back cover features samples of "The House by the Side of the Road" "My Lover is a Fisherman" "Drake's Drum" and "Goin' Home." OCLC locates three holdings. Theodore Presser Co unknown
1937617346St. Louis MO: Shattinger Piano & Music Co 1937. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Scattered foxing mostly along the edges corners bumped still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 781-3. OCLC locates two holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. Shattinger Piano & Music Co unknown
1952617348New York: Edition Musicus 1952. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Corners lightly bumped some very minor edgewear very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "SR-9-4." OCLC locates four holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. Edition Musicus unknown
1996035676Chantilly VA: The Teaching Company 1996. DVD. New. The Great Courses: The Symphonies of Beethoven. Parts 123 and 4. Each hard case cover holds 2 DVD's 8 total and a guidebook. 32 total lectures of 45 minutes/lecture. New book and DVD in original publisher's shrink wrap. This book/DVD set would make a great gift. Full refund if not satisfied. The Teaching Company unknown
1942232H3185New York: Southern Music Pub. Co. Ltd. 1942. Book. Good. Sheet Music. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 56 pages. Centerfold photos of Dick Todd. Includes piano music lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle; You Are My Sunshine; Somebody's Thinking of You Tonight; It's Unbelievable; I Told You So; I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes; Swanee River; It Makes No Difference Now; Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep; The Ferris Wheel; Candid Camera Shots; Beautiful Dreamer; Live and Let Live; Lazy River; Maria Elena; Sweethearts or Strangers; The Sun Has Gone Down On Our Love; It's Your Worry Now; Pay Me No Mind; It's All Over Now; Worried Mind; It's All Over Now; Worried Mind; Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair; The Bells of San Raquel. Unmarked with average wear. Faint moisture marks inside covers. A sound vintage copy. Southern Music Pub. Co. Ltd. Paperback
1976BOOKS095323ILondon: Stainer & Bell. Very good copy. 1976. 1st. hardcover. 8vo 140 pp. Ex-library with the standard stamps and pockets. . Stainer & Bell hardcover
196248380New York: Random House 1962. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Random House 1962. First Edition Stated First Printing. Octavo 21cm; publisher's cloth-backed boards bright lilac topstain in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price $3.95; 10120pp.; halftone frontispiece and two leaves of plates from the original production. Jacket and board margins a bit chipped and worn white portions of jacket dust-soiled foxing to rear jacket flap and throughout textblock front free endpapers unevenly toned. Good or better overall. <br /> <br /> Groundbreaking musical comedy first produced as the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum. Though the story itself does not address the race of either character the original production cast Black actress Diahann Carol in the role of the female romantic lead across from the white actor Richard Kiley. Random House unknown
194711051Geneva: Editions Henn 1947. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff cream wrappers. 130pp. Very good. Very good. First edition of this study by the French composer and chapel master of Dijon Cathedral handsomely signed and inscribed in French to American pianist John Leiser and dated Dijon 14 June 1949 on the printed dedication page. Laid in is Samson's calling card and the front portion of the envelope in which this book was transmitted addressed entirely in Samson's hand and signed again. Very unusual. Editions Henn paperback
1968170827N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage photograph of Sammy Davis Jr. and dancer Lola Falana in Davis' dressing room following the June 4 1968 performance of the musical at the London Palladium. Provenance sticker and a mimeo snipe printed on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1937 play by Clifford Odets the 1964-1966 Broadway musical directed by Arthur Penn opened on October 20 1964 at the Majestic Theatre and ran for 568 performances. The role was reprised by Davis for the 1968 West End production at the London Palladium seen in the photograph found here and was the first musical to play the theatre.<br /> <br /> 6.5 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus with a 1/2 inch closed tear to the top left repaired with cello tape on the verso. N.p. unknown
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
19471944160620043Sands Music Corp 1947-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear.has writing on front cover. Sands Music Corp paperback
1968011894Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 9-1/2" x 12" Softcover; First Edition; 213pp; Covers slightly age-toned clean tight copy VG condition. The early symphonies of G. B. Sammartini with Introduction sources and editorial notes. Includes the composer's first 19 symphonies two versions of No. 17 and an appendix with Overture to Memet. Illustrated with photos of manuscript pages. Harvard University Press paperback
1903MO8060Minneapolis: Til Salgs Hos P. Benson; Skoog & DeLander Music Printers 1903. First Edition. HB. Red cloth black lettering on front cover 12 mo 205 pp. all edges of text block stained red. Sacred songs medium voice with musical scores for guitar. Text in Norwegian. No marks in book front hinge cracked but binding holding. Covers show edge wear minor fraying top and bottom of spine. Uncommon title. Book condition Good. Til Salgs Hos P. Benson; Skoog & DeLander Music Printers hardcover
191766932London: Chappell & Co 1917. Vintage Copy. Softcover. Poor in wrappers. Heavy tearing. Some taping at fold. ; Signed and inscribed by performer Miss Elsie Baker. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Signed by Actress. Chappell & Co unknown
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 Cruikshank's lauded short film "Quasi at the Quackadero" and features the director'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 Anita ends up hallucinating while never leaving her own overflowing bathtub. <br /> <br /> 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
1934836H3067Cincinnati OH U.S.A.: The Willis Music Company 1934. Book. Fair. Paperback. Grand Edition Complete. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 128 pages. 1934 reprint of the 1928 first edition. Covers detached but present. Pencil markings to contents. A worthy vintage copy of this early piano accordion elementary and progressive method. The Willis Music Company Paperback
1927010445New York: Bloch Publishing Company 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 463pp; Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front & spine top edge gilt rear hinge professionally repaired a few small stains to front board wear to spine ends & corners of boards gift inscr. to title page text unmarked binding is sound Good condition. Signed by Author. Biographical sketches of several hundred Jewish musicians. Illustrated with portraits some photos of many of the entries. Contents: Composers; Conductors; Violinists; 'Cellists; Pianists; Singers; Other Instrumentalists; Biographical sketch of the author by Maurice M. Altermann; Addenda. Bloch Publishing Company hardcover
