London: Boosey & Hawkes. 1960. Pocket score of the suite from "The Tender Land," boldly signed on the title page by the Brooklyn-born composer. 92 pp. Fine. Read More...
Chicago: Buck and Lowney. 1916. First edition. A truly bizarre Christmas song where the children write to Santa that their mummy is dead so "don't bring the dolly" and just kill me and "take me to heaven." Illustrated wrappers, 2 pp. Wrinkled, a few tears to edges, one repaired with tape, generally very good.
Cast bronze portrait medallion by E. Joly, dated 1962. Head in profile facing left, dated, signed with initials by the medallist and with the composer's name in the field; obverse with an image of Hokusai's wave, as it appeared on the first edition of the composer's "Nuages." 82 mm in diameter, 271 grams. In very fine condition.
Chicago: Samuel Merwin and Company. [1897]. First edition. Six Songs. The musical settings by Charles Dickinson. The poems by Emily Dickinson. Folio, title wrappers. 16 pp. Wrappers stained along spine and outer edge, lower wrapper corners chipped. Read More...
1940 color storyboard sketch of Mickey Mouse dressed as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, from his most famous role in the most famous sequence of Disney's ground-breaking feature. Rendered in mixed media on paper, the work has an image area of 7.25" x 5.25". The number 58 affixed upper left corner, studio stamp on the verso with notations in pencil ("Concert Feature...Seq. No. 1...Sketch No. 135....Filed...Date...Oct 3..."). Some paper aging and light soiling (outside of the image area), otherwise fine. Read More...
Original hand colored engraving from "Scenes de la vie et publique des animaux" (J. Hetzel et Paulin, Paris 1842). The elegantly attired dog pianist performs at the keyboard from sheet music reading "My Dear Milord / Wouah! Wouah!"
250mm x 168mm ( 9 7/8" x 6 5/8" ), removed from the original volume and sold with a photocopy of the original title page. Fine.
Boldly penned and lenthy AMQS from the most popular song by the versatile Russian-born American composer. The opening 7 measures marked "Amoroso," the tune and lyrics, neatly penned on a page measuring 26 x 17 cm, inscribed and signed "with my best wishes / Vernon Duke / September 1966." Simply matted and framed. Read More...
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Large signed inscription on an album page dated 1922. In very fine condition, from an album compiled by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1869 - 1937), English-Canadian botanist and journalist. 25 x 33 cm. The verso of the page features a bold 1914 autograph from Edward R. G. Evans, the British naval officer and Antarctic explorer who served as second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913 and as captain of the expedition ship Terra Nova. Read More...
Vintage 5 x 6.75 inch photograph of the beloved English composer, taken on the occasion of his being made a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order. Stamps on the verso, in very fine condition.
Boldly signed 1925 Lansing, MI single sheet removed from a recital program by the great violinist known for his sensuous and infinitely expressive tone. A few creases, in good condition, signed also by the pianist, Josef Bonime, and with program additions written in an unknown hand.
Printed visiting card from the great French composer, inscribed in pencil with a short note ("please speak of the matter to your friends..."). In very fine condition.
New York: Crown Publishers. 1971. First edition. 8vo. 214 pp. Red cloth, lacking dj. Signed on both sides of the front free endpage and title by composer Jerry Bock, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, author Joseph Stein and by many of the leading performers from early productions the historic show, including Zero Mostel, Molly Picon, Leonard Nimoy, Bette Middler ("Bette Midler from Fiddler"), Giorgio Tozzi, Hershel Bernardi, Maria Karnilova, Richard Altman, Charlotte Jones, Peg Murray, Paul Lipson, Harry Goz and others. Fine. Read More...
Sheet music to the titular song from Fiddler on the Roof, 9 x 12 inches, 5 pp, signed on the front cover in felt tip, “love, Zero Mostel.” In fine condition.
Very fine AMQS from the great Swiss pianist, associated in particular with the music of Bach and the first to record The Well-Tempered Klavier. A probing interpreter, he wrote that "our aim should not be pure soil and sterile air in which nothing will grow." The BACH motif neatly penned and signed "zur freundl[iche] Erinnerung / Edwin Fischer" on a blank off-white card measuring 14.5 x 9 cm. In fine condition and sold together with the original envelope and some German newspaper clippings about the pianist. Read More...
Autograph signature from the important Russian composer, together with three glossy reproduction portrait photographs. The card measuring 7.5 x 5.5 cm.
A student of Rimsky-Korsakov, the first of his nine symphonies premiered when Glazounov was only 16 years old, and due in part to the advocacy of Franz Liszt, his work soon became well known in Russia and abroad. He was an important pedagogue, professor and later Director at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
38. Grieg, Edvard. (1843-1907). Autograph Musical Quotation of an Original Finger Excerise for a young Pianist
An especially unusual original AMQS from the Romantic Norwegian composer, who writes out a finger exercise for a young pianist. Beautifully penned on a decorative album page, inscribed (translated from the German): "Very Slowly! Daily exercise for the dear little Gretchen Klinkerfang (?), a souvenir from Edvard Grieg" dated "Stuttgart, Febr[uary] [18]90." With a tear to the right edge effecting the inscription and slightly touching the signature, repaired with archival tape on the verso. Professor Alexander Rehding (Harvard University) has suggested that "Grieg may have made it up. It crunches up the hand and makes the ring finger do all the work."
The London Chronicle or Universal Evening Post. For April 14, 1759. Disbound, from a larger volume with traces of leather and string along spine. 4to, 8 pages, bit of rubbing in unrelated content. Read More...
London: Printed for the Benefit of the musical Fund; and sold by T. Payne and Son. 1785. First edition. 4to., pp. vii, [1], xvi, 8, *8, 9-20, *19-*24, 21-56, 21, [6], 26-41, [6], 46-90, [5], 94-139, [3], with the frontispiece and seven other engraved plates, two of them offering stunning views of Westminster Abbey during these vast concerts, and one being a full plan of the orchestra. Modest and inevitable foxing to the plates, but otherwise a very fine, uncut copy in recent full calf boards with five raised bands to the spine. Rothschild 544; Hazen, pp. 30-33; Chapman and Hazen, p. 161; Fleeman, p. 1570 (85.2BH/1a). Read More...