New York: Caliban Press. 2014. Beautiful handmade book, Number 28 of 125 copies. Signed and numbered by the printer (Mark McMurray) and artist (Guy Berard). Bound in Celtic grey handmade paper covers with green cloth spine and circular paper title label "5". Large circular cut out to front cover revealing yellow spot and black number five. The text first appeared in Down Beat magazine on February 13, 1964 and has been edited. Illustrated with a revolving map and a double page centerpiece collage by Guy Berard. The collage is based on a photograph from 1958 of the Thelonious Monk Quartet playing at The Five Spot Cafe. 11 pp. Fine. Read More...
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Magnificent signed 5 x 7 inch Polydor publicity photograph of the great French chanteuse. A classic early image by Harcourt of Piaf looking into the distance, signed and inscribed in French in fountain pen. In very good condition, with a few small stains at the top, dings and tack holes to corners.
A rare 8 x 10 inch photograph by James Kriegsman, signed and inscribed by the American singer known as "Queen of the Blues" in blue ink "To Raye and Ramon / workin was crazy / Fondest Wishes / Dinah Washington." Small creases to corners, a few areas of chipping to the glossy surface, otherwise very good condition. Read More...
Signed halftone photograph of the esteemed and influential blues musician. One of his earliest tunes, “Rollin’ Stone,” became the name of the super-successful British rock group and later a periodical ("Rolling Stone") which ranked him as one of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time” in 2004. A remarkable phtoograph of Waters seated outdoors with his guitar, wearing a white tie and white shoes, apparently backstage for an event, with a film crew and trailers visible beyond the fence just behind him. Boldly signed "Muddy Waters" in black ink to a light area of the image. 8 x 10 inches, mounted to white rigid board with an approx. 1-inch margin around the edges. In fine condition, a very uncommon autograph in this format.
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Autograph letter, written on a 3.5" x 5.5" card, stating that his "greatest satisfaction was in hearing Bing Crosby's first rendition of my song 'My Little Bucharo,'" signed "M K. Jerome." Together with unsigned original vintage sheet music for "Bright Eyes." Fine condition.
My Little Bucharo was written in 1937 by Jack Scholl (lyrics) and M.K. Jerome (music) for the Warner Bro. film "Cherokee Strip," where it was sung by Dick Foran. Bing Crosby had a hit with it the same year.
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A rare and splendid platinum photograph of the Johnson brothers and Bob Cole, inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Marks, music publisher, on May 21, 1904. In the margins are six manuscript musical notations from songs by Johnson and Cole, signatures of J. Rosamund Johnson and Bob Cole, and also the signature of the New York photographer Cornelius Marion Battey, who took the photograph. 11 x 14 inches, affixed to a larger old mat, nearly 14 x 18 overall. Two repaired tears on left side, some acid stains at the margins, else fine. Provenance: from a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Marks. Read More...
Atlanta: Nexus Press. 1988. Four leaves on two joined sheets, 34.5 x 30 cm (13½x11¾"), plus a smaller leaf of letterpress on translucent paper. Housed in a larger black cloth portfolio. Some fading and light soiling to portfolio; near fine.
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An original dyeline copy Piano-conductor manuscript score for the 1975 production of "CHICAGO," preceding the publication of the much shorter score. Acquired for QRS Piano Roll factory for the purpose of a piano roll medley by arranger and company VP Brian Williams in advance of the publication of the score. 268 pp. On manuscript paper stamped "Chelsea Music Preparation...NY." Edges yellowed, otherwise very fine throughout. We located no other copies on Worldcat. Read More...
Signed sepia A. Strauch of Wiesbaden bust portrait photograph the German-born conductor and composer. 8.75 x 14 cm. Signed "Otto Klemperer / 1927 Wiesbaden" in the final year of his tenure as First Kapellmeister of the Wiesbaden Opera House (1924-27). Sold together with a letter of provenance from the daughter of musicians who worked under Klemperer's baton. In crisp, fine condition, this is a remarkable and uncommonly early signed photograph of Klemperer who is rare in signed photographs of any period. Read More...
One bar AMQS from the composer's one-act operatic score, his second, written when he was only seventeen years old. On an album page measuring 19 x 12 cm. Fine. Read More...
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Scarce signed Fayer of Vienna photograph of the renowned American violinist who premiered the violin concertos of Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg and who was a close associate of Webern (who conducted him in the British premiere of the Berg Concerto in 1936). 9.5 x 14 cm.
Vintage glossy 10 x 8 inch photograph of the beloved American violinist and composer of Austrian birth who was one of the most important musicians of the last century. An image of Kreisler playing his violin, signed boldly with his name alone to the lower blank margin "Fritz Kreisler." Corners ever so slightly creased, otherwise fine.
An interesting and boldly penned letter from the Italian composer best known for his operas, and particularly for the beloved repertoire staple, "Pagliacci" (1892). Four integral pages, signed "R. Leoncavallo." 22 x 28 cm. Villa Prince de Galles, Menton. 24 July, 1902. With the original envelope, addressed to the French poet and writer Pierre Louÿs (1870 - 1925). Usual folds, in fine condition. In French, translated in full: Read More...
Postcard photograph of the great pianist at the keyboard, boldly signed in black ink. Heavily silvered around the edges, slight show-through of the printed postal line on the verso, but otherwise in fine condition. Read More...
Lithograph portrait of the young composer and pianist, signed and dated 1832 by the artist within the print lower right, titled in print bottom center. 9.25 x 12.5 inches. Paper quite browned, tipped a slightly larger sheet, small hole upper left, else fine. This is a later impression of this famous print, probably ca. 1920.
Original Nadar cabinet photograph of the elderly composer and pianist, ca. 1885. Some light spotting to the image, else fine. Issued slightly later by his son, Paul Nadar (1856 -1939). 11 x 16.5 cm.
Single sheet (10 7/8 x 12 7/16 inches) color photolithographic print by Larry Rivers of poet John Ashbery working at his typewriter with superimposed upper right quadrant the typewritten text of Ashbery's poem "Pyrography". One of 20 hors commerce Printer's Proofs SIGNED by ASHBERY and RIVERS at bottom edge. Printer's Seal in lower/right corner of the print. In a pale blue stiff card folder with title label tipped on front. Laid in is the Colophon printed on a single shieet of blue paper with biographical notes on Ashbery and Rivers and details of this printing along with an additional pencilled numbering. All in fine condition.
Autograph quotation from the important German-Jewish poet and author, founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions. On an off-white 19.5 x 17.5 cm sheet with an additional quotation from Wilhelm Wolfsohn. Fine.
102. [Literature & Art] Bacon, Francis. (1909 - 1992). FIGURE WRITING REFLECTED IN MIRROR [Francis Bacon. Oeuvres récentes. Galerie Claude Bernard...Paris, 19 janvier-26 mars 1977] - SIGNED POSTER
"Bacon's mirrors can be anything you like - except a reflecting surface... Bacon does not experience the mirror in the same way as Lewis Carroll. The body enters the mirror and lodges itself inside it, itself and its shadow. Hence the fascination: nothing is behind the mirror, everything is inside it." - Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, London and New York, 2005, p. 13 Read More...