New York: Longplayer Publications, 1957. Wrappers, edge worn. Essay by Edward Jablonski. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Jazz 'n Pops. A complete catalog of Jazz and Popular Longplay Records. Volume 1 Number 5....
New York: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1955. First edition. Blue cloth, 678 pp. Fine. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book
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... More about George Gershwin
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. More about The Sound of Surprise
Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1984. First edition. Wrappers, very good. More about Selected Songs
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... More about Signed photograph: montage of three portrait photographs clipped from concert programs
[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... More about Pagan Love Lyrics
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). More about The guests go in to supper
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. More about Cowboy Lyrics
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. More about La Musique Moderne. Préface de Claude Rostand
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1941. First edition. Cloth, 305 pp. Small stain on rear cover, very good. More about Our New Music: Leading Composers in Europe and America
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, More about Early Jazz Greats
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. More about Heroes of the Blues
New York: Obolensky, (1963). First edition. Red cloth, fine copy in slightly faded dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about Listen Here!
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. More about Passport to Paris
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. More about Words with Music
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. More about Twentieth Century Composers
London: Oxford University Press, 1925. First edition. Cloth, fine in chipped dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about The English Madrigal
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. More about Signed card. In blue felt-tip on a 3 by 5-inch card
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. First edition. Light blue cloth, blocked in silver and red. Endpaper and frontispiece loose. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about George Gershwin: A study in American music
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. First edition. Set of gathered and sewn, untrimmed sheets, very good.From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More about George Gershwin: A Study in American music
New York: John Day, 1930. First edition. Black cloth, blocked in red, very good condition. Publisher's or manufacturer's dummy copy. Comprises the text through page 3 (including George Gershwin's preface, the Table of Contents, with zeroes for page numbers, three illustrations). The striking dust jacket's front and spine panels are... More about Tin Pan Alley.; A Chronicle of the American Popular Music Racket
Mainz: B. Schott's Shne, 1959-1972. Five volumes, original cloth, joints worn. The last three volumes were edited by Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. From the library of Nicolas Slonimsky. Extra shipping required. More about Riemann Musik Lexikon.12th neubearbeite Auflage
London: Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition. Two volumess, buff cloth wrappers, very good. Ownership signature "G.A. Gresham, Caius". Woolmer 194. More about An Outline of Musical History (2 vols
New York: Garden City Publishing, (1939). First edition stated. Cloth, very good in dust jacket. Inscribed to Ira Gershwin by Harold Arlen. This book contains a biography of George Gershwin by Ferde Grofé. More about Music Lovers' Encyclopedia. Compiled by Rupert Hughes. Completely revised and newly edited by...