Oversize photograph of the great composer/lyricist seated at the keyboard with the important playwright/director. 10 x 13 inches. Small tear at right, edges lightly dinged, white paint highlighting (for reproduction in newspaper) around Porter's head. Still, a striking and large image. Read More...
Original letter from Cole Porter, written beginning on the cover and continuing across seven pages of a Polish jazz program from 1937. Dated Sept. 7 and addressed "Dear Henry," the letter concerns Jerome Kern's music and is from the personal files of Kern, acquired by descent through his daughter's estate. While we are uncertain of the identity of the addressee "Henry," it is clear he was an intimate of Kern's to whom he passed this letter. Read More...
New York: Chappell Music Company. 195. First edition. 319 pp. Large softcover volume. Some water staining to lower portion of covers, letter and bottom of a few pages, mostly fine. With presentation letter, 10/7/75 stapled to first free endpage from Lee Snider, editor of Chappell Music. In full: "Dear Miss Merman, Inasmuch as Cole Porter was very much a part of your career, I thought it would please you to have a copy of Chappell's newly published book The Music & Lyrics of Cole Porter Volume II. I'm sure you will note that many of the shows with which you were associated are represented herein. Having long been a great Ethel Merman fan, I am pleased to send you this book in the hopes that you wll find it to your liking." Read More...
An "Elvis Exclusively on RCA" promotional display standee that was used in record stores in the 1970s but which shows Elvis in his famous gold lamé suit in 1957, as seen on his album "Touch of Gold." The iconic image was inscribed by Elvis at a Las Vegas concert, "To Janet Nancy Carol Judy Pat and Catherine from Elvis Presley." Measuring an astonishing 28 x 21 inches, this is perhaps the largest and most visually striking Elvis signed photograph ever to be on the market. Read More...
Signed early original photograph of the great bass-baritone singer, writer, civil rights activist. 8.5 X 13.5 cm. With verso blank and without photographer attribution. An ideal example, in very fine condition.
Fine original signed program cover from the great dancer/performer in the 1939 hit show, produced at the New York World's Fair. Boldly signed and inscribed, light fold and edgewear, else fine.
Highly unusual original 1935 photograph of the great dancer and the great boxer. The caption affixed to the verso reports that "The famous 'Brown Bomber' recently started training for his forthcoming bout with Max Baer. His training, however, was unique, for Bill Robinson, famed colored tap dancer, supervised. The purpose, according to Bill, was to improve Joe's footwork. Here they are seen in Detroit, Mich. 8 /14/35." Scattered edgewear and creases, else fine.
New York: Williamson Music. 1951. First edition. Upright score, in paper binding printed in red and blue. 198 pp. With slight edge wear to covers and spine, but still very bright and internally very fine throughout. Fuld p. 494. Rare. Read More...
An intimate 8 x 10 inch black and white doubleweight photograph of the American composer and his wife, by the important photographer Philippe Halsman. Stamped by the photographer on the verso and dated 1950. In very fine condition.
1 page. On personal letterhead. July 31, 1962. Signed "Dick." 10.5 x 7.5 inches and in very fine condition. Sold together with the original transmissal envelope. In part: "I can't begin to tell you how happy your letter has made me. It brought back to me the happy moments of my work with London company of 'The Sound of Music'. I've had very few associations in my theatrical life that have been quite so gratifying as my one with you and I treasure it." Read More...
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A very fine original 8 x 10 inch photograph, ca. 1945, boldly signed in green ink by the Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress, dancer and singer. Stamped by the photographer John Miehle on ther verso and in very fine condition.
Scarce AMQS from the great pianist, dated Berlin December, 1890. Signed additionally by Joseffy, dated December, 1882. 4.5 x 7.5 inches. Both signed in ink, Joseffy autograph somewhat lighter, but overall fine. Read More...
Rare souvenir from the 1927 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates, a wooden bat-shaped harmonica embossed on the barrel "Babe's Musical Bat." The instrument has 5 holes which will play 10 notes and was manufactured by F. A. Rauner, Klingenthal. A similar example is found in the Alan G. Bates Harmonica Collection in the National Music Museum. Slightly rubbed, overall fine.
Neatly penned AMQS from an unidentified composition, four measures signed "C. Saint-Saëns 1906." 1 page, 21 x 7 cm. In fine condition, with one vertical crease and neatly mounted to another page.
Autograph musical quotations from the influential French composer are quite uncommon.
Paris: Durand, Schoenewerk & Cie. [ca. 1885]. First edition. Upright folio. 9 pp. [PN] 2339 (5). Original printed wrappers, title page printed in pale green and purple. Wrapper edges rough, reingforced at spine with archival tape, ownership signature of composer F. Stuart Mason, else fine.
197. Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951). [Modern Psalms, op.50c] Moderne Psalmen. Die Skizzen zum ersten Psalm. Partitur nach den hinterlassenen Skizzen Schoenbergs herausgegeben von Rudolf Kolisch.
Mainz: 1956. [Ms. Arnold Schoenberg Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles]. 23 x 30, upright & oblong cm, 15, 56 with 34, 22 pp. Halftone of all the autograph sketches as well as the full texts of the poems, together with full transcriptions. Introduction in German. Wrappers, with handsome protective folder in quarter linen.
Vienna: Universal Edition. XII, 1925. First Edition, second issue. 24 pp. [PN] 7627. A somewhat later issue of the first edition, published in the same year. Original pale green wrappers bound into full black cloth. Ex-library with usual labels and stamps to inner boards and endpages, the score itself affected only by a small dry stamp to the title and otherwise in very good condition throughout. Rufer p. 25-27; Ringer p. 315; Schönberg-Interpretationen I, p. 377; BSB 14, 5767; CPM 50, 389. Read More...
Signed candid photograph of the German conductor and composer, warmly inscribed to the violinist, Emma Louise Odum, "the most gifted pupil of the goddess of goddesses...with all our admiration and all our gratitude." 14 x 11 inches and in very fine condition.
A beautiful signed photograph from the beloved classical guitarist, shown with his guitar. Inside of a 1986 London Wigmore Hall concert program (complete), signed and inscribed in bold black ink. Very fine. 21 x 29.5 cm
Silver gelatin print, stamped on the verso and titled in ink. 8 x 10 inches and in very fine condition. An unusual and attractive original 1959 photograph by celebrated Jazz photographer, Herb Snitzer, of Nina Simone in her Philadelphia apartment, reflecting in a mirror. Read More...