Antiphonal leaf, 19th Century Spanish.
Begins: "Morte dira...."Framed.
MUSIC
Jazz 'n Pops. A complete catalog of Jazz and Popular Longplay Records. Volume 1 Number 5. Gershwin Anniversary Issue
New York: Longplayer Publications, 1957. Wrappers, edge worn. Essay by Edward Jablonski. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.
Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book
New York: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1955. First edition. Blue cloth, 678 pp. Fine. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.
The Life and Work of Sir Arthur Sullivan
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, (1975). First edition. Cloth, fine, in slightly faded dust jacket. Inscribed by Allen to Ira Gershwin.
George Gershwin
New York: Longmans, Green, 1938. First trade edition. Original red cloth, fine in dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. "With articles by Paul Whiteman, Olin Downes, Walter Damrosch, George Gershwin, Merle Armitage, Otto H. Kahn, Arnold Schoenberg, William Daly, Harold Arlen, Oscar Hammerstein II, Isamu Noguchi, David...
Schoenberg
New York: G. Schirmer, 1937. First edition. One of fifty special copies signed by Schoenberg. Publisher's black leather, front outer hinge cracking, but cords are sound, hairline cracks to surface of the lower spine, gilt dulled; binding otherwise very good, internally fine. With original black paper unprinted dust jacket, chipped...
The Sound of Surprise
New York: Dutton, (1959). First edition. Gathered and sewn, unbound sheets, in dust jacket. Slight offsetting on the front endpaper, otherwise fine. First edition, an advance copy of the author's first book.
Selected Songs
Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1984. First edition. Wrappers, very good.
Signed photograph: montage of three portrait photographs clipped from concert programs.
The whole measures 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches. Two of the portraits are inscribed: "To G.H.R. Gardener in remembrance of A. Brailowsky. London" and dated November 1938 and April 1943. Tipped to a leaf of sturdier paper (with a truly frightening portrait of Beethoven on the verso). Noted French...
Pagan Love Lyrics
[Los Angeles]: [K. Mason & Collins Co.], 1921. First edition. Original maroon wrappers, glassine cover; very good copy. The scarce first edition with 32 pages and no publisher's imprint. An enlarged edition was published in 1925. Inscribed by Bryan, lyricist and author of "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be...
The guests go in to supper
Oakland, Calif. Burning Books, 1986. First edition. Wrappers, fine. 383 p. 26 cm. Signed by John Cage on the title page. Edited and designed by Melody Sumner, Kathleen Burch, and Michael Sumner. Interviews with John Cage, Robert Ashley, Interviews are followed by texts (poems, essays, songs) by the interviewees (contains no music).
Cowboy Lyrics
Boston: Small Maynard, (1915). "Roundup Edition" Revised and enlarged. Original maroon cloth, very good. Laid-in autobiographical printed slip. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.
La Musique Moderne. Préface de Claude Rostand.
Brussels: Elsevier, 1958. Second edition, revised and corrected. Boards, light browning but a very good copy in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Virgil Thomson. With the separately printed section of examples.
Our New Music: Leading Composers in Europe and America
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1941. First edition. Cloth, 305 pp. Small stain on rear cover, very good.
Early Jazz Greats
Newton, N.J. Yazoo Rcords, 1982. First edition. Set of 36 trading cards, in box, the fronts with portraits drawn by R. Crumb, with biographical and discographic information on the backs. Fine,
Heroes of the Blues
Newton, N.J. Yazoo Rcords, 1980. First edition. Set of 36 trading cards, in box. The fronts of the cards have portraits drawn by R. Crumb, with biographical and discographic information on the backs. Slight wear to box; the cards are all fine.
Listen Here!
New York: Obolensky, (1963). First edition. Red cloth, fine copy in slightly faded dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.
Passport to Paris
Boston: Little, Brown, (1955). First edition. Blue cloth, near-fine copy with ownership signature on pastedown, in lightly worn and faded, price-clipped dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.
Words with Music
New York: Macmillan, (1972). First edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Lee and Ira Gershwin. Engel, a Broadway composer also conducted (in1951) the longest recording of "Porgy and Bess" until the complete recordings of the 1970s.
A Journey to Greatness. The Life and Music of George Gershwin
New York: Holt, (1956). First edition. Special presentation binding for Ira and Leonore Gershwin, with their names stamped on the front cover, inscribed to them by Ewen. Red leather, gilt, t.e.g. edges rubbed, very good.
Twentieth Century Composers
New York: Crowell, (1937). First edition. Blue cloth, fine, jacket slightly chipped at top of spine. Inscribed to Ira Gershwin by Harold Arlen. A scarce title; it contains a chapter on George Gershwin.
The English Madrigal
London: Oxford University Press, 1925. First edition. Cloth, fine in chipped dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.
Signed card. In blue felt-tip on a 3 by 5-inch card.
Fine.Godunov (1950-1995) danced with the Bolshoi and, following his defection in 1979, with the American Ballet Theater. Subsequently he enjoyed a minor acting career playing villains and madmen in films like Die Hard and Waxwork II. Signed card.
George Gershwin: A study in American music
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. First edition. Blue buckram, spine gilt, fine, in a protective jacket from George Gershwin Jr. High School, Brooklyn.. From the library of Ira Gershwin, the book's dedicatee, with posthumous bookplate.
George Gershwin: A study in American music
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. First edition. Variant binding in dark blue buckram, spine gilt, stain from enclosed newsprint, else fine. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate.