New York: Boni & Liveright, 1919. First Modern Library edition. Limp leather, lightly rubbed. Fall 1919 publisher's catalogue. Initialled by Ira Gershwin on endpaper. More about An Ideal Husband. A Woman of No Importance
Cleveland: World, (1943). Cloth, very good. 1040 pp. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Wood's Unabridged Rhyming Dictionary
New York: John Lane, 1917. First edition. Cloth, very good. Ownership signature of Carl Hovey. BAL 19024. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Poems of Charles Warren Stoddard. Collected by Ina Coolbrith
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936. First edition. Cloth, fine in lightly used dust jacket. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature. Includes "The Merry Adventures of Billy the Kid" More about Sir Galahad and Other Rimes. Pass-Keys to the Classics. Illustrations by Richard Taylor
New York: Huebsch, 1918. First edition. Cloth and boards, faded, corners worn. The poet and translator's first book. Bookplate of screen writers Carl and Sonya Hovey. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Growing Pains
New York: Franklin Bigelow, 1913. First edition. Cloth, very good. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature. More about The Re-Echo Club
Cleveland: World, (1943). Cloth, very good. From Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. He has left torn paper markers between a number of pages, marking the sections on mechanics of rhyme, double and triple rhymes. More about Wood's Unabridged Rhyming Dictionary
London: Walter Scott, n.d. Reprint. Cloth, label. Cover has a white stain. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature. More about Ballads and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, &c
New York: Century, 1922. First edition. Original red cloth, spine dulled, short tear at the top of the spine, text browned slightly. Signed by J.S. Worthington (perhaps the golfer) in 1922, and by Ira Gershwin. More about Shouts and Murmurs. Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights
New York: Harper, (1953). First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine in lightly worn dust jacket. Inscribed by Harold [Arlen] to Lee [Gershwin]. More about Playwright at Work
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. First edition. Cloth, fine. Inscribed by Tiomkin to Ira and Lee Gershwin. In 1928 Tiomkin had played the European premiere of George Gershwin's Concerto in F at the Paris Opera, with both Gershwins in the audience. More about Please Don't Hate Me
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1943). First edition. Cloth, waterstain on front cover, otherwise a very good copy in faded and worn dust jacket. Swift had a ten year-long affair with George Gershwin, and collaborated with Ira for fifty years after George's death. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Who Could Ask for Anything More?
New York: Scribner's, 1906. First edition. Publisher's red cloth, gilt, very good. Inscribed in 1929 by Lou and Emily Paley to Ira Gershwin, "who believes, modestly, that other light versifiers ply their Parkers with as light a touch as he does...." More about A Whimsey Anthology
New York: Knopf, 1945. First edition. Cloth, fine in near-fine dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about The Musical Scene
New York: Harper, 1930. First edition. Original cloth, extremities worn. Inscribed to Ira Gershwin "the great carom shark" on his birthday in 1930. Unfortunately we can't make out the surname of one his pool-playing friends "David". The other inscriber is theatre critic Gilbert Gabriel. More about All Our Yesterdays
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1956). First edition. Cloth, some fading to spine. Inscribed by the author to Ira Gershwin and with a letter of presentation. A scarce novel centering on Modigliani. Wight was chairman of the art department and museum director at UCLA, as well as a novelist and painter. More about Verge of Glory
New York: The H.K. Fly Company, (1922). First edition. Boards, cloth back, label; wear to binding but a good copy. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature. More about Versiflage
New York: Knopf, 1924. First edition. Blue cloth , good. With two ownership signatures, one Ira Gershwin's. Includes an attack on Cubism. More about A Penny Whistle. Together with the Babette Ballads. Foreword by Franklin P. Adams
New York: Lee Furman, (1939). First edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket (slightly chipped at the crown). From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about From Ragtime to Swingtime
New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe, 1919. First edition. Boards, very good. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature. More about Including Horace
New York: Norton, (1965). First edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, wife of the writer Ira Wolfert, to Lee and Ira Gershwin. More about The Music. Poems
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, (1971). First edition. Cloth, fine in near-fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Thomson "gratefully" to Ira Gershwin, and signed. More about American Music Since 1910
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1948. Pene du Bois, Raoul. First edition. Cloth, fine in lightly worn dust jacket. Ira Gershwin's copy with a letter from the publisher. More about A Mirror for the Sky. Costume sketches by Raoul Pène du Bois
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1932). First edition. Original cloth, good copy. Inscribed by the author to George Gershwin. Stokes's poem, based on a Nathaniel Hawthorne story, served as the libretto for Howard Hanson's opera, which opened at the New York Metropolitan Opera in February 1933. Although considered a success... More about Merry Mount. A dramatic poem for music. Illustrated by Horace Raymond Bishop
New York: Doubleday, 1955. First edition. Cloth, front hinge cracked. Inscribed by Wouk to Lee and Ira Gershwin. Marjorie Morningstar was filmed in 1958, starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly. More about Marjorie Morningstar