1 page typed letter, signed "Oscar." New York City, January 3, 1958. To Jean Dalrymple, in full: "I looked over the list of scenes and numbers in Helen Thomas' musical version of 'The Barretts of Wimpole St.' I cannot say that it told me very much. Perhaps some time it would be best if we can sit down and listen to some of Miss Thomas' songs. This cannot be in the immediate future because Dick and I are at the moment up to our necks in the job of writing, and we don't want to come up for air until we have the assurance that we are going to have a score ready in time for the production of 'Flower Drum Song.'" A few folds and creases, else fine. Read More...
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A very fine large original signed and numbered photograph, an iconic image of the great violinist. Silver gelatin emulsion photograph (1937, printed later), signed and numbered 23/190. 62 x 51 cm (20 x 24.25 inches) and in very fine condition. Read More...
Boldly signed original doubleweight photograph of the beloved English pianist seated at the keyboard and with the famous silhouette of Brahms showing on the wall behind her. 8 x 10 inches, the photograph by John Vickers of London. Upper margin with a few minor tears and stains outside the image and otherwise in fine condition.
A boldly penned AMQS from the German composer/violist/conductor on a sheet measuring 14 x 7 cm. With a clipped mounted program photograph, some modest toning and otherwise very good.
Glossy 7 x 9.25 inch Christian Steiner for Deutsche Grammophone photograph of the beloved and legendary pianist, boldly signed "VL Horowitz 1984 / N. York August" in blue ink. Small crease to lower right corner, otherwise a fine uninscribed example in very good condition.
Signed very uncommon early original Hoppé gelatin silver portrait photograph of the very prolific English composer, teacher of Benjamin Britten and many others. He wrote many songs, chamber music and works for the piano and his Piano Concerto, recorded by Eileen Joyce, is highly considered. He also wrote the music for the Australian film "The Overlanders." An original photograph by the important German-born British photographer, one of the most important photographic artists of his era, signed in ink by the photographer on a smaller upper mount, and by the composer "in sincere regard from John Ireland / May 1915" on the contrasting lower mount. 17 x 23.5 overall, lower mount a little unevenly cut, else in fine condition.
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...
New York: Mills Music. 1932. First edition. One of the most important and iconic American compositions, a high point of the Big Band era, signed by the composer "Duke Ellington" in pencil over the first free open measure of the vocal line. The original printed purple wrappers quite creased and with tape remnants along the more recently archivally tape-repaired spine, margins slightly spotted but generally fine within, with an ownership signature at the head of the first page and neatly penned also within the front cover illustration. Read More...
Lovely vintage matte-finish 10 x 13 photo of the young Garland looking skyward, signed and inscribed in blue ink to pianist, comedian, and composer Oscar Levant, “For Oscar—Our friendship is the most precious thing I have. May it last forever. Love always, Yours, Judy.” In fine condition, with some light contrast to closing of inscription and signature, and a bit of scattered light silvering. Accompanied by the original Sotheby Parke Bernet mailing envelope. Read More...
A February 3, 1954 Western Union telegram from band leader Mitch Miller to Judy Garland's second husband Sid Luft, at this time with Warner Bros. The message reads: "Tried to reach you during the week but couldn't make connections. Paul Weston [band leader] has material for Judy to record. He will get in touch with you. As soon as date is set up I will be glad to fly out to supervise. All the best to you and Judy." Nothing came of this proposed collaboration, probably because Warner Bros. released Luft and Garland due to the poor box office returns of 'A Star Is Born.' 1 page, oblong 4to. File holes at top.
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Uncommon signed 1949 set of 78 RPM records "Hot Jazz Classics" on the Columbia label. Signed "Best of Everything Always / Billie Holiday" in ink on the inside front cover and signed additionally at the foot in blue ink by saxophonist Bob(bie) Barfield. Spine of album case mostly perished and separated, the signed inside flap with an approx. 2 inch surface loss at upper left and tape remnants lower left, neither affecting the signed areas. Records in apparently fine condition, though untested. Read More...
Bold autograph signature "Good Luck / always / Thelonious Monk" from the influential American jazz pianist, composer and arranger who had a highly unique improvisational style and who made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't." Considered one of the most important, and eccentric, figures in modern jazz, he spent most of his life in New York City, playing in nightclubs; in the 1940s, he was one of the first players of bebop. Read More...
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Vintage 1958 photograph of the Sicilian American singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. 17 x 21.5 cm. Mounting traces on verso, a few marks and extensive surface creasing. A fabulous image!
A most unusual signed photograph of a youthful Sinatra, shown here in rehearsal with Bing Crosby and three unidentified musicians. Mounting remnants on verso, a few small abbrasions, surface tears and light creases to the image with most of the damage fully matted out of sight. The visible area of the photograph measures 9.5 x 7 inches [24 c 18 cm], matted to 14 x 11 inches [35.5 x 28 cm] overall. Read More...
Extraordinary photograph of the legendary violinist and the Australian Soprano, signed by both in ink and dated 1897. Albumen photograph by Guigoni & Bossi of Milan, mounting remnanta and losses to verso and around the edges, mostly on the mount only and easily matted out of sight. 22 x 17 cm. Read More...
Undated autograph manuscript, presumably October 1845, a 4-voice canon in F Major, notated in brown ink on twelve staves, with a number of alterations in the texts visible. 1 page, 25.5 x 33 cm, 12-stave paper. Verso features an additional four measures on the bass notes G-A-D-E, a reference to the Danish composer Niels W. Gade (1817-1890), a friend of Mendelssohn and Schumann from Leipzig in the 1840s, and the dedicatee of a short piano piece by Schumann based on the same pattern. Read More...
Signed postcard photograph of the great German pianist-organist. An attractive bust portrait by Harcourt of Paris, signed and inscribed and dated 1959 in the lower blank margin and in very fine condition. 10.5 x 14.7 cm.