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
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1929). First edition. Orange cloth, very good. Includes a half-chapter, largely unfavorable, about George Gershwin. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More
London: Rockliff, 1953. First edition. Red cloth, very good in chipped dust jacket. Inscribed to Ira Gershwin by Bob Breen, with references to Breen's production of Porgy and Bess. 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
New York: Knopf, 1945. First edition. Cloth, fine in near-fine dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More
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
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
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
New York: Knopf, 1924. First edition. Blue cloth , good. With two ownership signatures, one Ira Gershwin's. Includes an attack on Cubism. More
New York: Allen, Towne, & Heath, 1947. First edition. Publisher's cloth, spine slightly faded. Inscribed by the author to Ira Gershwin. More
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
New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe, 1919. First edition. Boards, very good. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature. More
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
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
Garden City: Doubleday, 1929. First edition. Publisher's cloth; very good. Inscribed by the author "With compliments and the hope you will like the 'Gershwin' chapter", signed and dated August 1929". From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More
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
New York: Knopf, 1921. First edition. Boards, worn, spine defective. Ryskind's first book, a collection of light verse. Inscribed by Ryskind to Ira Gershwin, and signed by Gershwin. Ryskind's collaborations with the Gershwins include Strike up the Band (1930), Of Thee I Sing (1931), and Let 'Em Eat Cake (1933). More
New York: Holt, 1928. Arno, Peter. First edition. Block cloth, front cover with inset Peter Arno illustration; very good. Inscribed by Shaw to George Gershwin, who is one of the twenty-four subjects of Shaw's profiles, each with an Arno portrait. Shaw would become a founding member of American Abstract Artists. More
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
New York: Doubleday, 1951. First edition. Blue cloth, very good copy. Inscribed to Wouk to Lee and Ira Gershwin, dated March, 1951. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it was turned into a successful Broadway play, and a movie starring Humphrey Bogart. More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1931. First edition. Cloth, very good. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature. An interesting association, although Ira Gershwin was not a collector of rare books such as Smith, Jerome Kern or Paul Francis Webster. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1931. Early reprint. Cloth, spine dull but a very good copy. With a rather drunken-looking inscription from Smith to George Gershwin. More
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
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1967). First edition. Boards, fine in dust jacket. Inscribed to Ira Gershwin, "my favourite lyricist and author of my favourite book. from Plum/ P.G. Wodehouse Dec 27, 1967" More