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1974129252N.p.: N.p. 1974. First Draft script for ah unproduced play. <br/><br/>A whimsical play within a play about the hardships of finding monetary backing and the windfalls of governmental control. A tax error grants a theatre producer and unsuccessful Broadway promoter $687700 instead of the $68.77 he is actually due. Satire ensues. <br/><br/>Ray Golden was a lyricist and composer who primarily worked on Broadway and is known for his contributions to the productions "Catch a Star" 1955 and "Ziegfeld Follies of 1943" 1943-1944. Jack Marlowe was a writer who primarily worked on television including the 1966 television movie "And Baby Makes Three." <br/><br/>Set in New York City and Washington DC. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 1974 noted as First Draft with credits for playwrights Golden and Morlowe and for writer Kanter. 102 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1917WRCLIT79166New York: Joe Morris Music Co. 1917. 4pp. Folio 34.5 x 26.5cm. Pictorial upper wrapper by André DeTakacs. A bit of smudging and creasing a few small edge tears but a good copy. Unlike other songs embodying a reluctance to send a child off to war this song stops just short of implying that military service at the Front was the mother's son's reason for being as well as his brother's if he had one. OCLC: 9892806. Joe Morris Music Co. unknown books
191046786New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1910. First Separate Edition. Slim oblong quarto 19x25.5cm.; publisher's pale grey pictorial cloth stamped in black and orange; 237pp.; illus. and sheet music throughout. Cloth a bit dust-soiled and toned corners gently bumped else Very Good and sound. First published in the 1897 collection "Three Operettas." BAL 1946. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
19719006855New York: Boosey & Hawkes 1971. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in the publisher's original wrappers. <br/><br/> Boosey & Hawkes paperback books
19482221883<p>First edition. Octavo. Original yellow cloth stamped in black. Dust jacket designed by F. E. Banbery unclipped; small chip; spine faded. Very good. 247 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed to actor Ken Murray: "To a dear friend and mentor. David."</p><p>Broekman b. May 13 1902 Leiden Holland; d. January 7 1958 New York City film composer songwriter musical director Frankenstein 1931 uncredited. Scored several films including "Phantom of the Opera" "All Quiet on the Western Front" and many others from 1928 to 1956.</p> Simon and Schuster hardcover books
19651326452New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc 1965. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo; unpaginated; Good; ivory beige spine without text; no jacket; cloth shows modest soiling to exterior; some rubbing wear to corners; strong boards; text block shows some toning to edges; previous owner's name to ffep; frontispiece; interior clean; illustrated;. 1326452. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc hardcover books
1862008383Cleveland Also New York Detroit and Chicago: S. Brainard & Company Also S. T. Gordon D. S. Amsden and Root & Cady 1862. First Edition. Sheet Music. Very Good. Complete with six pages including the cover. Light soiling and wear with a couple of short closed marginal tears. Old tape repair to the spine. Very scarce; at time of listing OCLC reports no copies of this sheet music held by any institution. There are no examples in the trade and no auction records at the Rare Book Hub. Although often credited to Root & Cady or others the original lyrics of this famous Civil War ballad were actually written by a young soldier Lawson Wood while he waited to die in a Union hospital after being mortally wounded during the initial battle at Vicksburg. Root & Cady planned to publish the soldier's far more heartrending lyrics as written under the title "On the Field of Battle Mother" and later explained that a mistake was made "in regard to these words." See "George F. Root" by P. H. Carder and "The Compendium of Every Day Wants" by Luther Minter. This example published by Brainard in Cleveland simultaneously with Root & Cady's Chicago 1862 edition contains the dying soldier's original lyrics. Very scarce; as of 2018 OCLC reports no copies of this sheet music held by any institution. There are no examples in the trade and no auction records at the Rare Book Hub. <br/><br/> S. Brainard & Company (Also S. T. Gordon, D. S. Amsden, and Root & Cady) unknown books
2143glsNew York: The Women’s Press n.d. Narrow quarto hardcover green cloth-backed green textured boards gilt letters 157 pp. Good with light rubbing to edges cello tape repair to Page 34. Ephemera laid-in. The Women’s Press, n.d. hardcover books
1900000503Chicago and New York: The George M. Hill Company 1900. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Denslow William M. 4to. 84 pp. with Denslow's inimitable illustrations. Soilage to pictorial boars and shelfwear along edges. Paper over board worn through in corner. Spine strip expertly replaced and inner joint also expertly reinforced. Now tight. Bookplate on FEP. Pages toned generally clean. Overall an attractive copy. <br/><br/> The George M. Hill Company hardcover books
19621324786Boston: Little Brown and Company 1962. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with yellow print; DJ in mylar small tears at spine ends and front top edge edgewear and mild peripheral tanning; Boards in blue cloth with black print mild peripheral tanning stain to lower spine corner light wear to spine caps; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf else clean and tight; 31 pages illustrated color. 1324786. FP New Rockville Stock. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1960012154NY: Random House 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . Review copy with review slip laid-in. Orange cloth backed covers with b&w pastedown of Mary Martin. Dustjacket is price-clipped. The original Broadway musical about the Von Trapp family's escape from Nazi Austria which became the beloved blockbuster movie musical with Julie Andrews. Book covers are a bit spotted around the edges and to the cloth spine. Dustjacket a bit rubbed still very presentable. Random House hardcover books
196024113New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1968 c.1960. 11th printing. Hardcover. price-clipped no discernible wear to book tiny bookseller's rubber-stamped name at bottom corner of ffep brief annotation facing cast page see notes; jacket has a couple of itsy-bitsy tears at base of spine light soiling to rear panel. B&W photographs The popular musical basis for the incredibly popular film of the same name. Although this particular printing dates from 1968 several years after the release of the movie it retains the front-panel illustration of a photograph from the original Broadway production featuring Mary Martin et al. Note that the character name "Elsa Schraeder" is circled lightly in ink in the cast list at the front of the book with a handwritten note on the facing page indicating that the book once belonged to the actress who played the role in the first national touring company of the show in 1961-62. There are no markings in the text itself. . Random House hardcover books
1946005909New York: Rinehart & Co. 1946. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "To Joe - Hoagy Carmichael". SCARCE SIGNED. Very Good boards lightly soiled in a Very Good Minus dust jacket 2" chip at base of spine edge chips and tears and wear at flap folds. The story of his writing of the classic song "Stardust" illustrated with photographs. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rinehart & Co. Hardcover books
1946005337New York: Rinehart & Co. 1946. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and Bloomington Indiana's legendary composer and actor Hoagy Carmichael on front end page. Very Good slight spine lean boards a bit soiled in a Very Good priced dust wrapper rear panel soiled and minor edge wear. An uncommon SIGNED BY AUTHOR copy !. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rinehart & Co. Hardcover books
186444589New York: Wm. Hall & Son 1864. Paperback. Very Good. musical score 6p. Disbound. 35cm. Some offsetting and soiling. Moderate tear 5cm. in cover leaf which has a music seller's stamp at bottom. Songs of the War series. A memorial to fallen officers. O'Reilly appears to have served in the civilm War with the 10th Army Corps Union side. An interesting 5-vignette lithograph on the cover illustrates all five Civil War songs in the series. <br/><br/> Wm. Hall & Son paperback books
190523065London: The Strad Office 1905. 2nd edition. Original publisher's deep maroon cloth lettered/decorated in gilt. Spine sunned otherwise VG. 149 xiv pp. Adverts last 14 pp. Frontis. Text illustrated with drawings & musical scores 2 folding. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5" <br/><br/>The Strad Library No. V. This muscian's first book. The Strad Office hardcover books
1895WRCLIT70831Brooklyn: Citizen Job Printing Office 1895. 391pp. Typographically decorated wrappers. Hint of trivial dust soiling to wrappers otherwise near fine. First edition of this libretto by the popular lyricist book collector and briefly bookseller. It was first produced by the Lillian Russell Opera Company and Russell played the lead. OCLC locates 3 copies of the production program but only microform copies of this libretto are reported there. Citizen Job Printing Office unknown books
191720760Kenton Ohio: The U.S. Music Co. 1917. Music and lyrics 3 verses and a chorus; first verse: "We have found a way in the U.S.A./ To make ev'ry body feel at home/ From whatever place no matter what race/ Or country they called their own./ We don't have space for the whole blame race/ But they're welcome to our cue/ To get on with one another /We treat ev'ry one as brother./ Neat the old Red White and Blue."; printed by H.S. Talbot Co. Music Printers Chicago; 13 1/4" x 10 1/2" size; light wear in very good condition; a very optimistic piece given the state of war in Europe at the time. . Second Edition. Very Good. The U.S. Music Co. unknown books
1971148028New York: Melanie Herman 1971. Draft script for an unproduced musical comedy based on the 1911 short story by Saki.<br/><br/>Clovis Sangrail upon hearing the complacent middle-aged James Huddle complaining about his routine and resistance to change makes the suggestion that he needs an "unrest cure" involving them in an "invented outrage."<br/><br/>Set in 1904 England. <br/><br/>Yellow Studio Duplicating Service titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1971 with credits for author H. H. Munro Saki music and lyrics Ernest McCarty and book by Marc P. Smith. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-44. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with dampstain to verso of top corner of wrapper and first four leaves of script bound with two gold screw brads. Melanie Herman unknown books
1961D11115New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 181. Book is fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. <br/><br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
196025992New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1961 1960. Fireside BCE. Hardcover. agency name rubber-stamped on both pastedowns otherwise a nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; jacket browned along spine and a little bit at the edges tiny tears at a couple of corners. Musical play "based on the story of the illiterate girl from Hannibal Missouri who married Leadville Johnny Brown a gangling Irish prospector and discoverer of one of the richest silver mines in Colorado" and her ambition to be accepted by Denver society which leads her to a successful effort to establish herself as a presence in Paris whereupon she heads back to rejoin her husband in Colorado. Unfortunately her return trip is on the Titanic the disastrous sinking of which she survives hence becoming known forevermore as "unsinkable." The original 1960 Broadway production starred Tammy Grimes who won a Tony Award and toured with the play for a couple of years but was supplanted for the 1964 film version by Debbie Reynolds; Harve Presnell as Molly's husband appeared in both the original play and the movie which was pretty much the high point of both his stage and film career although he had a pretty decent late-in-life run as a grizzled character actor. NOTE that in the typical fashion of published musical plays the text of this volume contains the song lyrics but not the music. . G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1961011566NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed on the title page by actress Tammy Grimes who played the totle character in the original Broadway production "Dear Jane and Bob - I remember her well - wishing you unsinkable joy. Tammy Grimes" Jane and Bob Emerson managed the Drama Book Shop for many years the go-to bookstore for theatre professionals and aficionados. Book near fine dustjacket rubbed. Book club edition. Dustjacket worn and toned especially at spine. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
186350898Macon and Savannah GA: John C. Schreiner & Son James F. Weeks printer 1863. 4to. 4 pp. Schreiner's Port-Folio of Popular Songs no. 5. Parrish 7574. Disbound; foxed. <br/><br/> John C. Schreiner & Son (James F. Weeks, printer) unknown books
186314532Boston: Henry Tolman 1863. 5 pages; black and white title in a few type-faces with calligraphic flourishes; music & lyrics; inside title is "I Wait For Thee" or the War is Nearly Over; 'To be Sung in a Plaintive Style'; good Civil War era item the war not being nearly over signals the weariness of the population with the long-drawn-out conflict; a little dustiness couple of spots; old pencil name on top edge; overall very good condition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Henry Tolman Paperback books
1929188307San Francisco: Sherman Clay & Co 1929. Sheet_music. 8p. including covers 9x12 inches illustrated with cartoon depiction of the wedding featuring fairytale characters and a color photo of the twins in wedding drag very good. "Broadway Melody" was the first talky-musical released by MGM. Beaumont was an actor/director and the 7 year-old twins playing bride and groom were his daughters. Not really a drag item per se but camp all the same. Sherman , Clay & Co unknown books
