An Hour with American Music
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.
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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.
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...."
The Musical Scene
New York: Knopf, 1945. First edition. Cloth, fine in near-fine dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.
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.
Morrow's Almanack for the year of Our Lord 1928 - 1929
New York: William Morrow, (1927-1928). First edition. Two volumes, cloth backed boards, spines darkened, else very good. Deluxe issue for 1928, one of 500 numbered and signed copies. Contributors include Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, H.L. Mencken, Don Marquis, Edmund Wilson, and Corey Ford. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.
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.
Versiflage
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.
A Penny Whistle. Together with the Babette Ballads. Foreword by Franklin P. Adams
New York: Knopf, 1924. First edition. Blue cloth , good. With two ownership signatures, one Ira Gershwin's. Includes an attack on Cubism.
Koussevitzky
New York: Allen, Towne, & Heath, 1947. First edition. Publisher's cloth, spine slightly faded. Inscribed by the author to Ira Gershwin.
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.
Including Horace
New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe, 1919. First edition. Boards, very good. With Ira Gershwin's ownership signature.
Carousel
New York: Knopf, 1946. First edition. Green cloth, a near-fine copy in dust jacket, slightly sunned on the spine. Note of presentation to Ira Gershwin from memoirist Irving Drutman.
Aid to Rhyme
New York: Putnam, 1925. First edition. Cloth, worn, backstrip mostly detached. Gotham Book Mart sticker on rear pastedown. Ira Gershwin's ownership signature on front endpaper.
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.
The Story of Yiddish Literature
New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute, 1940. First edition. Blue cloth, very good. Inscribed by the author to Ira Gershwin, who is quoted in the book,
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.
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.
Unaccustomed as I Am
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).
The Low-Down
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.
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...
The Caine Mutiny
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.
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.
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.
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.
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