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1975131490San Francisco: San Francisco Folk Music Club 1975. 17 issues 8.5x14 inches mimeographed newsletter issues range from 4 to 10 pages stapled folded in half handwritten addresses and cancelled stamps on last pages mild toning on some issues. Partial run of newsletters variously from vol 8 1972 through vol. 11 1975. Full runs of volumes 9 & 10. Mix of contemporary Bay Area folkie news travel reports sheet music for original folksongs and classified ads "Rosalie Sorrels needs a housekeeper/kid-sitter". Included are an obituary for Malvina Reynolds' husband listing of Utah Phillips 1973 house concerts in Bay Area etc. Includes calendars for all the area folk music venues. San Francisco Folk Music Club unknown books
1898WRCLIT70832New York & Chicago: M. Witmark & Sons 1898. 32pp. Printed wrappers. Faintest tanning at edges otherwise about fine. First edition of this libretto by the popular lyricist book collector and briefly bookseller. It was an important collaboration with Herbert and was first produced by the Alice Nielson Opera Co. It premiered on Broadway on September 26 1898 at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 40 performances. OCLC: 1015278. M. Witmark & Sons unknown books
196518579New York: Ed Sanders / Fuck You Press 1965. First Edition. Near fine. 4to. broadside mimeographed recto only on blue-grey paper; 11" x 8.5". Near fine with just touches of wear. Bright and sharp overall. <br/><br/>Promotional flyer executed in Sanders' distinctive FU Press style touting a string of Saturday "dope-grope rock 'n' roll meat-shrieks & rice paddy frenzy" midnight shows at The Bridge Theater on St. Marks following the band's return from their October 1965 Vietnam protest tour. These ephemeral broadsides are among the scarcest items to roll off Sanders' notorious press. [Ed Sanders / Fuck You Press] unknown books
1941004252New York: The Lambs 1941. Volume One Number One Winter 1941-1942. 128 page magazine published for members of The Lambs America's first professional theatrical club organized in 1874 by a group of actors and enthusiasts. Since the club's founding there have been more than 6000 Lambs with an elite roster reading like a Who's Who of American theater and film: Maurice Lionel and John Barrymore Irving Berlin Cecil B. DeMille Charlie Chaplin George M. Cohan Douglas Fairbanks John Wayne Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. RARE the magazine is in Very Good condition small corner crease front wrappers 1" loss of paper at bottom edge of spine. Editorial content includes "Sports at the Lambs "by Tex O'Rourke "Why Pick on Hollywood" by James Mongomery Flagg "Roysterers and Little Neck Lambs" by John Golden and "Ballad Maker" by Theodore Dreiser. Numerous publicity photos of stars of the day including Spencer Tracy George M. Cohan Al Jolson Boris Karloff and Joe E. Brown. Also numerous cartoons and drawings of scantily-clad women. A quite RARE piece of American stage and film history !. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. The Lambs Paperback books
1966235638London: Spring Books 1966. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good Dustjacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Blue cloth binding. Light edgewear to boards with slightly heavier wear to lower extremities. Light to moderate edgewear to dustjacket. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good Dustjacket. Spring Books unknown books
1953011548NY: Random House 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. Inscribed by musical comedy actress Kaye Ballard who played the lead role in the original production of THE GOLDEN APPLE: "To Jane & Bob - Memories!!!! Love & Peace Kay Ballard" Between two lines of the inscription Ballard has sketched a musical scale and within her signature Kay has sketched a self-caricature. Jane and Bob Emerson managed the Drama Book Shop the go-to bookstore in Manhattan for theatre professionals and aficionados. Unclipped dustjacket lightly soiled more so to spine and rear panel. Random House hardcover books
19691340856London: The Macmillan Company 1969. Hardcover. Octavo; First printing; G/Fair; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine tan with black print; DJ in mylar tears at spine ends and flap corners one-inch closed tear to rear top edge and to front top edge small hole torn in center of front hinge edgewear toning to spine stains on spine and front; Boards in yellow illustrated cloth light wear to spine caps and corners else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; unpaged illustrated color. 1340856. FP New Rockville Stock. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1941139101New York: Famous Music Corporation 1941. Original sheet music for the song "Fireflies on Parade" from the 1941 film "The Hard-Boiled Canary" here under the working title "There's Magic in Music."<br/><br/>Words and music by Ann Ronell whose notable songs include "Rain on the Roof" "Let's Go Out in the Open Air" "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" and "Willow Weep for Me." <br/><br/>9 x 12 inches. Eight pages 2 folded leaves in illustrated wrappers. Very Good with brief creasing and tears. Famous Music Corporation unknown books
1897WRCLIT70835New York: Printed by William Green 1897. 74pp. Typographically decorated wrappers. Small chips at upper wrapper tips otherwise very good or better. First edition of this libretto by the popular lyricist book collector and briefly bookseller. Its first New York production was by the Broadway Theatre Opera Company. This edition without a formal publisher's imprint is uncommon. OCLC locates four copies: HRC NY State Library Buffalo & Erie County Pub. Library & NYPL. OCLC: 9996344 & 30124148. Printed by William Green] unknown books
194929610Cincinnati: Scrapbook Publishers / Jordan O. Zimmerman 1949. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong stapled 4to. Unpaginated scrap book of country and western music stars with photos and facsimile signatures plus text. Over 100 stars 125 pictures and 45 biographies. Covers a bit worn. A very good copy. Scrapbook Publishers / Jordan O. Zimmerman paperback books
1972006834Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Co. 1972. SCARCE in such lovely condition. Near Fine small chip to wrappers at spine. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Dramatic Publishing Co. Paperback books
193326371Chicago: IWW Industrial Workers of the World. 1933. Sheet Music. Wraps "Adapted from Chas. H. Kerr's translation." Very good to near fine.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 4 pp . IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) unknown books
1873WRCLIT84154Boston & New York: Lee and Shepard 1873. 221pp. Gilt brown cloth. Frontis and portraits. 1874 female ownership inscription on verso of front free endsheet extremities worn and sunned modest soiling slight damp mark to covers at top of spine slightly affecting text block at extreme upper gutter stain to sectional music title following leaf and few fore-edges but a good sound copy. First edition of this popular Seward beginning on p. 165. Among the most important of the several contemporary books on the Jubilee Singers and their tours. HORN 783. WORK p.436. Lee and Shepard hardcover books
195123944New York: Random House. Very Good. c.1951. First Edition. Hardcover 1st Printing stated. no dust jacket; photographic front-cover label light shelfwear to bottom edge two tiny rips in cloth at top of spine long diagonal surface-scrape across rear cover. B&W photographs Timeless musical about the not-quite romance between the King of Siam and the English schoolteacher hired to instruct his children. . 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
1921019992New York NY: Broadway Music Corporation. Fair. 1921. Sheet music. Sheet music is in fair condition. Character in Blackface. Stamp on front of wrapper. Pages toned. Closed tears on spine wrapped edges and on loose interior sheet. ; 12" x 9"; 5 pp . Broadway Music Corporation unknown books
192119993New York NY: Broadway Music Corporation. Fair. 1921. Sheet music. Sheet music is in fair condition. Character in Blackface. Stamp on front of wrapper. Pages toned. Closed tears on spine wrapped edges and on loose interior sheet. ; 12" x 9"; 5 pp . Broadway Music Corporation unknown books
184371305Boston: George P. Reed 1843. Good. Sheet Music 9p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 34 cm. Moderate soiling and edge-wear including a couple of chips. Tinted lithograph on front of a forlorn young man leaning against a stile in a rural Irish setting. "8th edition" in tinted border around the lithograph. "The Music composed and most cordially dedicated to Mrs. Isaac McGaw of New York City by William R. Dempster" printed beneath the illustration. Statement preceding the music" Portraying the feelings of an Irish peasant previous to his leaving home calling up the scenes of his youth under the pitiful reflection of having buried his wife and child and what his feelings will be in America." <br/><br/> George P. Reed unknown books
19621340091New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. Third Printing. Hardcover. Quarto; VG-/G-; ivory white/orange spine with ivory white and yellow text; third printing; dust jacket has slight exterior wear; several chips to edges; two slight creases to front flap; cloth shows some white spots to exterior; strong boards; text block edges have mild tone; frontispiece; interior clean; illustrated; pp 255. 1340091. FP New Rockville Stock. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
240124New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. illustrations; "Review Copy Reprint Bulletin" stamped on ffep. Blue cloth binding with light to moderate edgewear. Spotting and scratches on rear board. no markings in text. Very Good binding. E. P. Dutton and Company unknown books
1898WRCLIT70837New York & London: Breitkopf & Haertel 1898. 311pp. Printed wrappers.Tiny chips to tips of lower wrapper which is partially detached otherwise very good or better. First edition of this libretto by the popular lyricist book collector and briefly bookseller. The operetta was produced by the Francis Wilson Opera Company at the Broadway Theatre and ran for 68 performances. OCLC: 22744700 etc. Breitkopf & Haertel unknown books
186153712New Orleans LA: A.E. Blackmar & Bro 1861. One of "Blackmar & Bro.'s Parlour Gems by Favorite Authors". 4to. 7 pp. Parrish & Willingham 7383 locating five copies Georgia Johns Hopkins Duke Brown Tennessee State Library. Disbound old staining through text. A little insect damage to several leaves not affecting text. Good copy only. 626. <br/><br/> A.E. Blackmar & Bro unknown books
1936WRCLIT77000Np 1936. 495pp. Narrow large octavo 24 x 10.5 cm. Cloth tape backed pictorial wrappers. Mimeographed typescript. Fine. A collection of the lyrics of over one hundred songs of a military nature here transcribed for use as a songbook by soldiers and Marines in camp. One song by Fairfax Downey is noted as the 1936 revision and there is a smattering of college songs included as well. hardcover books
19473045New York: Music Press Inc. Very Good. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. grey decorated cloth no dust jacket moderate exterior soiling corners bumped light stain across bottom of front cover spine somewhat darkened. two B&W photographs This opera first performed at Columbia University in May 1947 was inspired by the life and career of Susan B. Anthony and includes a wide range of historical characters among them Daniel Webster Anthony Comstock Ulysses S. Grant and Lillian Russell. This is No. 47 of 55 copies of which only 50 were for sale which were "printed on special paper cloth bound and numbered . and are signed on the limitation page by Virgil Thomson." The regular trade edition was 1000 copies in wrappers. Included but transferred from another copy of the book are the three original portrait photographs by Carl Van Vechten which were originally issued with each of the numbered copies. Each photograph is approx. 5x7 inches and is mounted on a 9x12 piece of thin textured card stock; each has a printed label on the verso bearing Van Vechten's original signature. The three photographs contained in their original envelope are: Gertrude Stein; Virgil Thomson; and Dorothy Dow as Susan B. Anthony and William Horne as Jo the Loiterer as they appeared in the original production. NOTE that the original photo of Stein in profile is different from the shot of Stein in front of an American flag that's reproduced as part of a dual frontispiece in the book itself; the two portraits of Thomson are identical. Signed by One Author . Music Press, Inc. hardcover books
1909005595London: B. T. Batsford 1909. 5 plates 33 illustrations 196 pp. decorative end pages quarter red morocco over grey cloth boards gilt titles. Near Fine slight rubbing to morocco at spine ends usual uniform browning to plates. With notes by T.L. Southgate. A quite lovely copy. . Second Edition. Quarter- Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. B. T. Batsford Hardcover books
