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New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 2000. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Green linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF. Biography of composer Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) whose Appalachian Spring, and Fanfare for the Common Man, gave America a place in classical music. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY. This scholarly study is in two parts w/some 50 color & 90 black/white illustrations. Part I, Aaron Copland's America is written by Gail Levin, curator of the exhibition; Part II is penned by musicologist Judith Tick. Fine copy.

New York, NY: M. Witmark & Sons, 1944. Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Near Fine/None as Issued. 5-page Vintage SHEET MUSIC. Vocal (lyrics in English and French) & Piano. NEAR FINE Copy w/trace shelf wear. COVER ART: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, from the 1935 MGM film version. Naughty Marietta is an operetta in two acts, first performed 1910, set in New Orleans in 1780. "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" is one of the operetta's most popular songs.

New York, NY: Leeds Music, 1945. Paperback/Sheet Music. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Fine. Softcover/VG; strong w/light shelfwear & soiling; edge nips sealed w/archival tape. 3-page 1945 Vintage SHEET MUSIC. Vocal & Piano. COVER ART: A charming, young Bing Crosby with the Andrew Sisters. A 1945 country/pop song, written by Dick Charles (pseudonym for Richard Charles Krieg), Larry Markes, and Eddie DeLange. Title song of the 1945 Roy Rogers film "Along the Navajo Trail", and, also sung in the 1945 film "Don't Fence Me In", and also w/Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. Recorded versions are many; notable renditions include that by Bing Crosy & The Andrews Sisters (1945), and later, Dinah Shore.

New York, NY: Carl Fischer, 1942. Reprint of 1942 . Paperback/Sheet Music. Very Good/None as Issued. 5-page Vintage SHEET MUSIC. Vocal, Piano & Guitar. Strong classical, vintage publication. Score: Clean. Softcover/VG w/light edge & surface wear; short closed tear to spine sealed by archival tape; trace soiling to upper back corner. Official song of the United States Army Air Corps. Creation of Robert MacArthur Crawford (1899 - 1961) who both studied & taught at the Julliard School of Music. Colorful artist, aviator since 1923, he flew to concerts & was introduced as "The Flying Baritone." This march was submitted to the 1938, Liberty magazine sponsored contest --- of 757 entries, Crawford won. The song (1st Line: "Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sun...") was officially introduced at the Cleveland Air Races, Sept. 2, 1939, where Crawford sang its first public rendition!

Columbus, OH: International Clarinet Assoc, 2016. Volume 43, No 4, Sept 2016 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/faint creasing to lower front corner. Quarterly publication of the Int'l Clarinet Assoc (ICA). COVER ART: Photo portrait of William O. Smith playing two demi-clarinets. This issue, Volume 43, No 4 of Sept 2016, includes articles on the Thumbrest Position on clarinet playing and E-flat tips.

New York, NY: Chappell & Co/Lerlane Corp, 1965. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Very Good/None as Issued. 7-page Vintage SHEET MUSIC. Vocal/Piano. Musical score/NEW & Bright. Blue softcover/NF w/trace edge & surface wear, and soil spot to back. Song from Act II of 1965 Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Music by Burton Lane (1912 - 1997) and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner (1918 - 1986). Story line is of a woman, submitting to hypnosis under a psychiatrist, recalls past incarnations. The song's noted recordings include those byf Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, and Sammy Davis, Jr.

Leipzig, Switzerland: Insel-Verlag, 1912. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hard Cover/Stitched. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New w/light marginalia to 9 pgs( 114 thru' 131) to beginning sector on Kleinen Drament. German language text. Vintage 1912, First Edition, 2nd Printing. Taupe boards/NF w/wear to upper spine edge. DJ/None. Text edges dyed green. First published 1911; this copy is the 2nd Printing of 1912. Anthology of poems & short dramas of Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1874 - 1929).

Minneapolis, MN: Filiquarian Publishing, 2007. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. 3-act play by Norwegian playwright, theatre director & poet, Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828 - 1906). First published Dec.1879, the play premiered at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark in the same month. A critique of 19th century marriage norms, the play was highly controversial. It is the story of Nora, who leaves husband & children to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that "a woman cannot be herself in modern society," as it is "an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors & judges who assess feminine conduct from the masculine standpoint. However, it was not meant to advocate feminist rights for in a 1898 speech addressing the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he "must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement," for he… Read More

New York, NY: Harms Inc, 1954. Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Good/None as Issued. Music score/Near New. 3-page 1954 Vintage SHEET MUSIC. Vocal, Piano. Softcover/Good w/PO name & soiling to upper front corner. All time popular 1934 American western song "Don't Fence Me In". This is an issue of 1954. COVER ART: 1944 Hollywood Canteen film, in which tune was sung by Roy Rogers. Music by Cole Porter and lyrics by Robert Fletcher & Cole Porter. Roy Rogers sang it again in the 1945 film Don't Fence Me In. Many other versions , including the 1944 Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters among notable performances.

Madrid, Spain: Editorial Ebro, 1972. Decima Edicion Ilustrada . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New w/sporadic marginalia to some 6 pgs. Spanish language, 10th Edition of 1972. Yellow softcover/NF. Frontispiece: Author's portrait. Spanish playwright Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760 - 1828) wrote El Sí de las Niñas (The Maiden's Consent, or, The Young Lady's Consent) in 1801; it was first performed in 1806 at Madrid's Teatro de la Cruz, drawing extraordinary attendance. The 3-Act play is dramatizes prevalent Spanish mores governing courtship, marriage & family duties --- a rich, elderly man's proposes marriage to a poor, young girl who loves another. With a cast of many, the comedy addresses conflicts between fulfillment of one's personal needs & dreams and those of extended family-societal obligations, marking the rise of the age of Spanish Enlightenment. The drama was denounced upon the reinstatement of the Inquisition when… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton, 1974. First Edition, First Printing . Black Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 7/16" Tall. Occasional essays on the history of music (mainly eighteenth century and before), and musicology by a Princeton professor. The chapter headings are: Erich Hertzmann; The Historical Aspect of Musicology; Sources and Problems for Graduate Study in Musicology; Vergil in Music; On the Date of the Marchetto da Padova; Church Polyphony apropos of a New Fragment at Grottafera; The Music of the Old Hall Manuscript - A Postscript; The ORDINARIUM MISSAE in settings by Dufay and Power; Origins of the L'HOMME ARME Mass; Relative Sonority as a Factor in Style-Critical Analysis; A Cypriot in Venice; Gugliermo Gonzaga and Palestrina's MISSA DOMINICALIS; Some Motet-Types of the Sixteenth Century; Haydn; Haydn's DIVERTIMENTI FOR BARYTON, VIOLA, AND BASS; Notes on a Haydn Autograph; Early Music Publishing in the United States; and Verdiana in the Library of Congress. Eighteen papers, 200… Read More

Sedalia, MO: A.W. Perry's Sons, 1920. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Good/None as Issued. 4-page Vintage SHEET MUSIC. Piano Solo. Score: Fine. Softcover/Good w. PO name to upper front, and losses to lower leading edges. 9th composition in a series of 20 from My Favorite Reveries published by A.W. Perry's Sons. Strong copy despite jagged edges.

New York, NY: Amsco Music Publishing, 1937. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback/Sheet Music. Very Good - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. 1937, 223-page Vintage, SHEET MUSIC. Voice & Piano. Musical score: As New. Green softcover/Good: sound w/small losss to lower sprine; edge & surface wear, light soiling to surface; and, spine foritified with archival tape. Published 1937 w/Forward by Editor, E.M. Schumann. Volume reprinted many atime w/varing pg numbers & songs. Extended introductory notes, synopis of story background to musical gems from popular Italian, French, and German grand operas. Arranged for voice and piano w/complete piano score, upper and lower; verse in both English and the the original language. Collection contains: (10) arias from AIDA; (11) from CARMEN; (15) from FAUST; (11) from LOHENGRIN; (7) from LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR; (7) from RIGOLETTO; (10 from TANNHAUSER; and, (11) from IL TRAVATORE.

New York, NY: MGM/Distributed By Warner Bros, 1980. First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. 1980 First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light of edge & surface rubs. Copyright 1980, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) w/Alen Parker's 1979 pre-production letter to the Crew to first title page. Illustrated with film photos. Our copy was published w/o ISBN --- the ISBN listed for ease in identification was assigned to later printings. Collection of songs from students attending a performing arts high school in New York City. 56 pgs, vocal scores to: 1. Fame; 2, Out Here On My Own; 3, Hot Lunch Jam; 4, Dogs in the Yard; 5, Red Light; 5, Is it Okay If I Call You Mine?; 6, Never Alone; 7, Ralph & Monty (Dressing Room Piano); and, 8, I Sing the Body Electric. Fine copy.

London, UK: Oxford Univ Press, 1964. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Embossed dark blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price clipped w/trace shelfwear. First published 1953; this is the 1964 printing. This collection fills the gap between World's Classics Five Elizabethan Tragedies and Five Restoration Tragedies. These 5 plays, written between 1603 to 1640, in 497 pgs, are: 1, George Chapman's (c. 1559 -1634) 'Bussy D'Ambois'; 2, Francis Beaumont (1584 -1616) & John Fletcher's (1579 - 1625) 'The Maid's Tragedy'; 3, John Webster's (1580? - 1635) 'The Duchess of Malfi'; 4, Philip Massinger's (1583 - 1640) 'The Roman Actor'; and, 5, John Ford's (1586 - 1639) ''Tis Pity She's a Whore'. Spellings modernized, augmented w/footnotes facilitate reading. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Gershwin Publishing/Chappell, 1937. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Sheet Music. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. 5-page Vintage SHEET MUSIC for voice, piano & guitar. Collectible/First Edition, First Thus. Near Fine w/trace surface wear. COVER ART : Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Jo9an Fontaine. "A foggy day --- in London town", sung by Fred Astair while, solo, strolling and dancing. Song from the 1937 English-themed Hollywood film A Damsel in Distress. starring also Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. Screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse, based on his novel of the same name, with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1939. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback/Sheet Music. Good/None as Issued. Vintage 1939 sheet music. "God Bless America". Vocal & Piano for Medium range in F (C to D) in 5 pgs (NOTE: Pge #1 assigned to front cove, & pge #2 to front cover verso. Pge 2 has carries the seldom available first refrain: "While the storms clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that is free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in solemn prayer". Near 65 year old, strong copy w/light soiling, faint surface creasings & edge nips sealed w/archival tape. A prayer & quintessential American patriotic song. First written 1918 by Russian born American musician Irving Berlin (1888-1989) during World War I, and revised, by him, in 1938 during World War II. This revised edition was first performed on Armistice Day, 1938, by contralto Kate Smith (1907 - 1986), to become her signature song and… Read More

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1939. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback/Sheet Music. Good/None as Issued. Vintage 1939 sheet music. "God Bless America". Vocal & Piano for Medium range in F (C to D) in 5 pgs (NOTE: Pge #1 assigned to front cove, & pge #2 to front cover verso. Pge 2 has carries the seldom available first refrain: "While the storms clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that is free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in solemn prayer". Near 65 year old, strong copy w/light soiling, faint surface creasings & edge nips sealed w/archival tape. A prayer & quintessential American patriotic song. First written 1918 by Russian born American musician Irving Berlin (1888-1989) during World War I, and revised, by him, in 1938 during World War II. This revised edition was first performed on Armistice Day, 1938, by contralto Kate Smith (1907 - 1986), to become her signature song and… Read More

New York, NY: Irvine Berlin, Music Company, 1939. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback/Sheet Music. Good/None as Issued. Vintage 1939 sheet music. "God Bless America". Vocal & Piano for Medium range in F (C to D) in 3 pgs (NOTE: Pge #1 assigned to front cover, & pge #2 to front cover verso). Some 65 year old; strong copy w/light surface wear. A prayer & quintessential American patriotic song. First written 1918 by Russian born American musician Irving Berlin (1888-1989) during World War I, and revised, by him, in 1938 during World War II. This revised edition was first performed on Armistice Day, 1938, by contralto Kate Smith (1907 - 1986), become her signature song. A prayer of commitment to cultural & religious tolerance, it was the official campaign song in the 1940 presidential campaign for both Democrat candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt as well as his Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie.

New York, NY: Oxford Univ Press/Franklin Library, 1981. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Rockwell Kent (Illustrator). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. 1981, First Edition, First Thus. Red, gilt embossed leather backstrap & gilt embossed red linen boards/Fine. Decorated endpapers. Red ribbon book mark. All leading edges in gilt. DJ/None as Issued. This edition based on text established by William Aldis Wright (1863 - 1866), the 2nd Edition of which was published 1891. The 6 Rockwell Kent (1882 - 1971) illustrations included were originally commissioned by Doubleday, 1936. 639 pgs. Anthology includes: 1, Macbeth; 2, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; 3, Othello, Moor of Venice; 4, Romeo & Juliet; 5, King Lear; and 6, Julius Cesar.