Rare handbill for the American Negro Blues Festival at Fairfield Hall in Croyden, featuring Lightning Hopkins, Howling Wolf, Sleepy John Estes, Hubert Sumlin, John Henry Barbee, Hammie Nixon, Sugar Pie Desanto, Clifton James, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon, and Sunny Boy Williamson. Mild wear and toning throughout, usual folds, else fine. 5.75 x 7.75 inches (14.5 x 17.8 cm.). Read More...
Charming International News Photos photograph of the Italian heavyweight boxer posing with his father. A typed press blurb to verso reads, "Sequals, Italy...This quiet little village is proud of its first citizen, Primo Carnera, current World's Heavyweight Champion and is glad that the big boy is back again in their midst, enjoying the rustic retreat that is the Carnera ancestral domicile. Here is 'Da Preem' himself giving his dad a practical demonstration of the art of fisticuffs, and demonstrating the lethal punch with which he won the title from Jack Sharkey, and—sadly, it must be mentioned—also with which he failed to rock the ancient and somewhat battle-scarred warrior Paulino Uzoudun to sleep in their meeting in Rome a few days ago. / K-10-27-33." Photographer's stamp and ink to verso, else in fine condition. 6.5 x 8.5 inches (16.5x 21.6 cm.). Read More...
Original broadside for a Thursday, March 11, 1813 performance at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden of John Burgoyne's opera The Lord of the Manor, presented "with... [a]lteration" to include new songs from Bishop and several other composers. Also in this remarkable performance would be "a New Farce, with Musick" entitled At Home, featuring among other enticements "In act I. a SHAWL DANCE by Miss S. Booth." At the bottom of the program are a series of advertisements for future performances, including "the First Part" of Haydn's The Creation. The bottommost entry would like "those numerous Parties who have been disappointed of Boxes for the New Farce of At Home, the Burletta of Midas, & the Farce of Love, Law & Physick" to know "that those pieces will be repeated together on Monday next." Creases and rough edges, fine tears in middle that do not obscure the text, but overall in fine condition for its age. Approximately 7.5 x 10.25 inches (21.3 x 42.5 cm). Read More...
Outstanding hand-painted gouache on 16 field acetate production drawing setup of John and Ringo in The Beatles' Yellow Submarine, ca. 1968. This is a great single cel setup with an amazing 6.25 x 7 inch depiction of two of the band members on one level, the full sheet measuring approx. 16 x 12 inches. Letter and numerical notations along the lower edge, set against a toned rigid pale yellow matboard with superficial warping of the acetate but otherwise in fine condition. Framed in a period red wooden frame. 16.5 x 13.25 inches overall. Read More...
23133. Schweitzer, Albert. (1875–1965). "...that you will regret one day to have deferred its publication" – Autograph letter and secretarial letter, both signed
Two letters of the Alsatian physician, theologian, philosopher, organist and musicologist to G. Schirmer, Music Publishers, New York. Read More...
TLS from the writer to a Director Giancarlo Camerana in Turin of an unknown institute regarding a conference to be held the next Spring. Dated Milan, 27 October 1953; 1 pp., typed on hole-punched 8.75 x 11.25 inch (22.2 x 28.6 cm.) stationary. Text translated from the Italian: "Dear Director, Please excuse my late response to your invitation, but it is only now that I can tell you with certainty that I can hold a conference in April. I will send you my bio-bibliographic note and a photograph soon. In the meantime, I tell you the title of the conversation: Discourse on Poetry. Please accept my best regards." Mailing folds, else fine. Read More...
17851. [Minstrelsy] [Trumpet]. "100th Performance in Old Kentucky" - Metal Trumpet Player Figurine
Vintage 1894 metal figurine of an African-American trumpet player. Incised on the top of the base: "Leader of the Pickaninny Band / Master Brister," and around the base: "100th Performance Old Kentucky / Academy of Music NY Jan 12 1894." A few chips; overall very good. 6 inches high, base 3.5 inches in diameter. Read More...
Redding, CT: C.E. Ives. 1922. Folio. 3ff. (title, index), 259, [iii] pp. + 1f. First Edition, second issue. Original blue buckram boards with title in gilt on front cover. Inscribed on the front free endpage to the musical impresario, Hugo Goerlitz: "To Hugo Gortitz [sic] from Chas. E. Ives. / Jan 24 - '24." In very good condition, corners lightly bumped, minimal fraying to extremeties, first endpaper torn at edge and repaired with tape from verso. Kirkpatrick p. 151. Rossiter p. 183. De Lerma S78. Sinclair p. 658. Read More...
Costume design for a wood spirit, identified "silvain" upper right corner, depicting a male figure, probably masked, carrying a walking stick. Ink and watercolor on paper, chiefly incarnadine in colour, with yellow leaves for the ruff and head-band. Notes on the drawing indicating different colors: "vert naissant," "jaune doré" (light green, golden yellow). Sheet size 12 3/4 x 8 in. (32.4 x 20.3 cm), framed. In fine condition with subtle rippling, staining and foxing, backed to sheet from original binding. Provenance: Wheelock Whitney Collection, New York. Literature: Margaret M. McGowan, The Court Ballet of Louis XIII: A Collection of Working Designs for Costumes, 1615-33 (London:Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986), this image illustrated as plate no. 120. Read More...
Seventeen original movie stills with promotional captions from the 1972 Sam Peckinpah western Junior Bonner, starring Steve McQueen as a veteran rodeo rider, "a rugged individualist whose only enemy seems to be the Twentieth Century." The film also starred Robert Preston, Ida Lupino and Ben Johnson. In very fine condition, each photograph approx 8 x 10 inches, varying slightly. Read More...
A very rare original mezzotint. Engraved by J. Simon after the original of John Wallaston and printed by Phil. Overton in 1703. The print is titled below the image, and includes the following laudatory verse by Matthew Prior: Read More...
Autograph manuscript. 105 pp. mostly religious music in provençale and old French, title inscribed "ce livre de musique a été fait par moy Joseph Brunel le 18 Avril lannée 1758. Livre de musique apparetnant a moy Joseph Brunel de Marseille, Maitre Serbalanquier de cette ville d'Arles, que Dieu me fasse la grace d'en faire mon profit et de m'en servier pour la plus grande gloire. Cayer de musique contenant tous les airs des Cantiques Sprituels a l'usage des missions de Provance en langue vulgaire, composé par le Reverend pere Gautier pretre de l'Oratoire, tres ediffiant pour le peuples et capable d'exiter en aux les veritables sentiments de Religion dons l'auteur a eté si vivement penetré pendant sa vie." Leather binding, stamped "Recueil." 22 x 14 x 3 cm. Fine.
Portrait medal, ca. 1790's France, commemorating the Union des Sociétés Musicales de Paris. The recto shows a nude male, crowned in laurels and playing a lyre; the verso shows a garland of leaves and musical instruments. Heavy die-clashe on both sides, which has left some mirror-image of the opposite side (a so-called ghosting) of the medal; otherwise very good. 17.39 g, 34 mm.
London: Printed for D. Henry by John Nichols. December, 1791. First edition. The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. For December, 1791. Being the Sixth Number of Vol. LXI. Part II. 194 [1073 - 1168] pp. Disbound, from a larger volume with traces of leather and string along spine, in very fine condition. Read More...
Rare copper portrait medal by T. Mercandetti. Bust right, the text: "IOANN BAPT PERGOLESE" with the reverse showing an altar with lyre and sheet music for his Stabat Mater and the text "MIRIFICIS ANIMOS DOCTA MOVERE MODIS." 67mm. Niggl 1589 (this example from the Niggl collection); Andorfer & Epstein 245.
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. For July, 1809. Title; [i]; 595 - 687 pp. [i]. Complete. 5 by 8 inches, full title/contents page with an engraving of St. John's Gate. Disbound, from a larger volume with traces of leather and string along spine. Fine condition. Read More...
An interesting manuscript collection of French songs, ca. 1820. Each song titled in a different color ink, with the indication "à prendre," or “à faire” or "air le bien aimer," or "air du vaudeville" etc. and with many of the song authors cited. An attractive manuscript of 44 pages, beautifully calligraphied and enhanced by the use of colored inks and occasional ornaments, bound at the spine with three silk ribbons. The first and last pages somewhat soiled, overall in fine condition.
1823 bronze portrait medal by Caqué as part of his Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium series 41 mm. Recto shows the composer in bust profile, with "Nicolaus Piccini." Verso with the text: "NATUS/ BARII/ IN REGNO/ NEAPOLITANO/ AN. M. DCC. XXVIII./ OBIIT/ AN. M. DCCC./ SERIES NUMISMATICA/ UNIVERSALIS VIRORUM ILLUSTRIUM/ M. DCCC. XXIII./ DURAND EDIDIT " In very fine condition. Read More...
A very fine original mezzotint portrait of the celebrated English actor and theatre manager, brother of John Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons and father of Fanny Kemble. Engraved by Lupton after the painting by G.H. Harlow and published in London by W. Crubb in 1824. Outer margins lightly toned, overall in very fine condition. 30 x 40 cm.
An original stipple engraving of the great English/Jewish tenor, widely considered to have been one of the finest singers in history. The husband of Anna Nancy Storace (creator of Susanna in Figaro), the two performed together frequently. Creator of the role of Huon in Weber's "Oberon," Braham was also a composer of many popular ballads as well as additional music to be inserted into the operas he sang!