Ting a Ling Tales
New York: Scribner's, (c. 1910). Original green cloth, fine and bright copy. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Ting a Ling Tales
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The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language.; Revised and enlarged by Lawrence H. Dawson
New York: Dutton, (1936). First edition. Brown cloth, very good. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language.; Revised and enlarged by Lawrence H. Dawson
An Ideal Husband. A Woman of No Importance
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
Wood's Unabridged Rhyming Dictionary
Cleveland: World, (1943). Cloth, very good. 1040 pp. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Wood's Unabridged Rhyming Dictionary
Poems of Charles Warren Stoddard. Collected by Ina Coolbrith
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
Growing Pains
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
The Bright Promise
Boston: Little, Brown, 1947. First edition. Boards, fine. Inscribed by the author to Leonore and Ira Gershwin. More about The Bright Promise
Wood's Unabridged Rhyming Dictionary
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
Playwright at Work
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
The Home Book of Verse
New York: Holt, 1922. Fifth edition, revised. Red cloth, gilt, binding a bit used. A comprehensive anthology of 4009 pages. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature. More about The Home Book of Verse
Please Don't Hate Me
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
Who Could Ask for Anything More?
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?
Theatre World Annual. (London). No. 4
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 about Theatre World Annual. (London). No. 4
A Whimsey Anthology
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
The Musical Scene
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
All Our Yesterdays.
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
Verge of Glory
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
From Ragtime to Swingtime
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
The Music. Poems
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
American Music Since 1910
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
A Mirror for the Sky. Costume sketches by Raoul Pène du Bois.
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
Merry Mount. A dramatic poem for music. Illustrated by Horace Raymond Bishop
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
First Nights and First Editions.
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 about First Nights and First Editions
The Night Life of the Gods
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 about The Night Life of the Gods
Marjorie Morningstar
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
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