Remarkable jazz and big band autograph album, featuring superb examples (signed to single pages, sometimes with clipped vintage images) of Bunny Berigan, Gene Krupa, Count Basie, Bobby Hackett, Jan Savitt (with an AMQS), Jack Teagarden, Harry James, Bon Bon, Bob Crosby, Al Donahue, Helen Young, Horace Heidt, Frankie Carle, Fred Lowery, Bob Haggart, Joe Carbonaro, Jay Pasto, Johnny Long, Erin Tucker and others. Read More...
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102. [Jazz]. "The Jazz Problem: Opinions of Prominent Public Men and Musicians" - 1924 Etude Magazine
August, 1924 issue of Etude Magazine, a magazine generally devoted to classical music. This particular issue deals with the "Jazz Problem" and features opinions from many prominent musicians and includes a wonderfully sensationalist cover with jazz instruments chaotically strewn around the central cartouche. Edges a little chipped, very good.
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An unusual portrait medal of the Swiss-born French composer, shown in bust profile facing left. The verso inscribed with the title of his Antigone, Le Roi David, and Jeanne au Bucher, with a mask over two fancifully drawn lines of music. 68 mm (2.7 inches). Signed "A. Bass" by the French medalist and in very fine condition.
An interesting series of original Atlantic Press of Paris photographs of the original 1954 Paris production of "Jeanne au bucher." Each 18.5 x 24 cm and all in very fine condition. The collection includes three images of Bergman in the title role, one of which she has boldly signed in blue ink. The fourth image shows her in costume during the rehearsal period, seated together with the director Roberto Rossellini, the composer Arthur Honegger, and the writer Paul Claudel. Read More...
Paris: Maurice Senart. 1939. Upright softcover folio, 32 x 24.6 cm. Printed wrappers, 141 p. [PN] E.M.S. 8819. One of a limited unnumbered series of signed copies, signed in ink by both Claudel and Honegger on the verso of the title page. In fine condition, with slight staining along the front cover spine which is also moderately chipped, and including a musical ex-libris plate on the inner front cover. Read More...
106. Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de. (1694-1778). La Pucelle d'Orléans, poëme, divisé en vingt chants, Avec des notes & figures. Nouvelle édition, corrigée, augmentée & collationée sur les manuscrits de l'auteur.
[Geneva]: 1762. [The first authorised edition]. Octavo, contemporary full leather, gilt-stamped spine. 358 pp. With the half title and all 20 full-page plates by Gravelot. Read More...
New York: Stark. 1908. First edition. Rare first edition of this amazing collaboration between the two greatest Ragtime composers, Scott Joplin and Joseph F. Lamb.
Lamb first met his idol, Scott Joplin, in New York in 1907. It was Joplin who introduced Lamb to his publisher, John Stark, who went on to issue his pieces for the next decade, beginning with "Sensation," a collaboration between the two composers.
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Desirable signed photograph of the great pianist whose flourishing career was cut tragically short by a plane crash on the way back from Australia. Copland wrote of him: “I cannot conceive of his ever having given a dull performance – an erratic one, perhaps, a misguided or stylistically incongruous one maybe, but invariably one that was electric and alive.” Read More...
109. Kern, Jerome. (1885–1945) . "Centennial Summer" - Kern's annoted script and Academy Award Nomination
The revised frinal script of "Centennial Summer," August 8, 1945. 122 pp. With underlining and emphasis (arrows, circles etc.) notations in Kern's hand on 6 pages in pencil and "Office Copy" written in his hand ink on the front cover. Accompanying it is the Academy Award nomination for "All Through the Day" for best song of 1946, and an original 11 x 14 inch doubleweight photograph of Kern. All these from the collection of Jerome Kern, by descent to his daughter Betty Kern Miller and then to the previous owner, and never previously offered on the market. Read More...
110. Kern, Jerome. (1885–1945) . "Show Boat" - Kern's Personal Copy with his Box Office Blue Ribbon Award
London: Chappell & Co. [Copyright by T.B. Harms Company]. 1928. First complete edition. The Theatre Royal Drury Lane production of Show Boat: A Musical Play. Adapted from Edna Ferber's novel of the same name / The whole production under the personal supervision of Alfred Butt. Music by Jerome Kern. Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Read More...
DS, one page, 8.5 x 11, December 26, 1944. Kern, for the consideration of one dollar, sells the rights to his song “Sweetest Sight That I Have Seen,” to the T. B. Harms Company. Signed at the conclusion in black ink, below a crossed out signature. In fine condition, with a staple hole to top left. Read More...
Original pencil caricature drawing of the American composer by the important Russian-American artist. 10 x 15 cm. Sold together with a newspaper reproduction of another Auerbach-Levy caricature of Kern. Both toned, the original piece mounted to rigid backing, small area of abbrasion at top, else fine. Both pieces from the personal files of Jerome Kern, acquired by descent through his daughter's estate.
Chicago-New York: Ziff Davis Publishing Co.. 1944. First edition. 213 pp. Hardcover in blue cloth boards. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpage to the subject of the book's eighth chapter: "For Jerome Kern...with the profound admiration of the author / David Ewen 1944." With moderate staining to the illustration pages, but overall a very good copy with a remarkable inscription to one of America's most important composers.
From the library of Jerome Kern, by descent to his daughter Betty Kern Miller.
Halftone photograph of the great Hungarian composer/conductor, boldly signed with his name alone in blue ink to the lower blank margin. 17.5 x 23.5 cm. Removed from an unknown program, mounting traces on verso, otherwise fine.
Original 1966 10 x 8 inch photograph of the great Hungarian composer/conductor, signed by hm in blue ink to the lower blank margin and by 5 others including conductor Stefan Bauer-Mengelberg (1925-1994), Mario di Bonaventura and Benjamin Suchoff, one of whom has dated the image 16 September 1966 and written "In memory of an unforgettable work day in the Bartok Archives with the great master Zoltan Kodaly."
Vintage press photograph with press clipping on the verso: "Three of the world's top composers who are at Interlochen for the festival-conference of the International Society for Music Education. From left: Norman Dello Joio of New York, whose work, "Songs of Walt Whitman", is having its world premiere; Dimitri Kabalevsky of Moscow, USSR, vice president of the I.S.M.E., and Zoltan Kodaly, of Budapest, Hungary, honorary president of I.S.M.E.." Photo is dated 8/24/1966, and measures 8 x 10 inches.
A beautiful original doubleweight matte head and shoulders postcard photograph of the beloved American violinist and composer of Austrian birth who was one of the most important musicians of the last century. Boldly signed in blue ink, with verso mounting traces and in fine condition. 3.5 x 5.25 inches. Together with a clipped program from a 1916 performance "In Aid of Destitute Musicians" which advertises that signed photographs of Kreisler may be obtained and that the funds will "be used for the relief of the many destitute musicians of all nationalities, who are now in Vienna."
paris: Chez Augte. Le Duc et Comp. [1806]. First edition, first issue.. Title; (ii); 13 pp; title, 13 pp. Engraved throughout. Each part bound in early blue marbled boards, handwritten title plate affixed to each cover. Title of First violin torn and repaired, several pages with early paper repairs, both parts foxed throughout. Rare. Worldcat records only one copy of this issue and two of a later issue.
Autograph letter from the great harpischordist to German composer and critic Ludwig Hartmann (1836-1910). 3 integral pages, in German. Hotel Bellevue, Dresden. Thursday, [no year]. Translated in full: "Dear Professor, I was just visited by my dear friend, Cezary Jellenta [Polish writer and critic, 1861 - 1935], whose recital of Lieder induced you to bring out my songs very favorably. I am taking this opportunity to express my thanks to you, dear Professor, and after my concert in the Court Theater I will take the freedom to visit you. On that occasion, I will be so free as to send you my Little Essay about Bach's Interpretation as a Separate off-print from 'Mercure de France.' Respectfully, sincerely yours, Wanda Landowska." Central fold, fine condition.