MUSIC from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Wisconsin: Chas. K. Harris, 1897. Ephemera. Otherwise very good condition. Sheet music with a red, black and white illustrated cover image of a woman and two men in fancy dress. The woman with red and white dress and hat decorated with feathers. Lyrics use stereotypical references and politically incorrect language. 10 1/4 x 14", 8pp, cover detached, spine… Read more about this item

New York: F.B. Havilland Pub. Co., 1918. Wraps. Good + overall. W.W.I sheet music. "The theme and title of this song was suggested by an article in the New York American by K.C.B. and the song is respectfully dedicated to him by special permission. Color cover image by EE Walton shows a wounded soldier thinking about his mother… Read more about this item

New York: Howley, Haviland & Co., 1897. Ephemera. Otherwise very good condition. Sheet music with a striking color cover image of an African American woman with parasol, red and white dress with puff sleeves and hat decorated with feathers. Lyrics describe her as the "Queen of color'd high society" and uses stereotypical references and politically incorrect language. 10… Read more about this item

New York: Program Publishing Company, 1950. Very good condition. Signed by Romberg. Sigmund Romberg [1887-1951] was a Hungarian-born American composer, most known for his musicals and operettas. This is a 16 page Program for a concert with soloist singers: Gene Marvey, Kirsten Kenyon, Gail Manners and Christina Carroll, under the baton of Sigmund Romberg, signed in blue… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Hays & Zell, 1854. First printing. Pamphlet. Good + overall. Signature on the inside cover of Edmund Hart. Explains the rudiments of music, scales, inversions, dictionary of Italian music terms, and many sheet music songs for the flute. Oblong 8vo, 79pp, (1) index, 17pp of text, 62 pages of score and 1pp of index. Stiff paper wrappers,… Read more about this item

New York: J.F. Atwill, 1842. First printing. Very good condition. The Celebrated Croton Ode written at the request of the Corporation of the City of New York by George P. Morris, Esq. and sung in front of the Park Fountain by Mrs. Strong, Miss J. Pearson, Mr. J. Pearson and the Members of the New York Sacred Music… Read more about this item

Melbourne: E. W. Cole, 1908. Very good overall. A racist postcard, sent to a member of the Lilliputian Opera Company touring in Yokohama, Japan in 1908, sent by "Grandma" to Miss Davis, wanting to see the singing parts and wish her and Charlie (Charles Pollard?) a good New Year. "Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company troupes (were) run by… Read more about this item

New York: Scarecrow Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed presentation copy. "The culmination of three decades of research on Adams' recorded work." The author worked with Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams [1930-1986] on his memoirs during the last two years of his life. Signed and dated by the author, September 2012. Pepper Adams was an American jazz baritone… Read more about this item

1890. Very good condition. A cabinet card for the Shepard Family Band. The family toured and performed throughout the Northeast in the 1880s and 1890s, with each family member performing with brass instruments as well as string and vocal compositions. Originally they hailed from New York, and eventually settled in Vermont. The family consisted of: Mr. J.… Read more about this item

London: Various, 1850. Hardcover. Very good condition. Squires' scores for three different operas, including Fra Diavolo, performed in Melbourne in 1861, signed many times, and Linda Di Chamounix, performed at the Theater Royal in Melbourne on Nov. 7th, 1861, extensively annotated by Squires for his performance as the lead. Squires was an American tenor born in Bennington,… Read more about this item

Robert Olin "Cutter" Brandenburg III, 2006. First edition. Soft cover. Fine. Limited edition 190/1500. Signed presentation copy, lavishly inscribed by Cutter Brandenburg to his friends Al and Penelope Smith. Included, loose in the book is the rare audio CD "Cutter's Texas Music Hall & Wild West Cantina" along with two V.I.P. Lifetime Member badges made out to the… Read more about this item

London: Joseph Williams, 1840. Good + overall. Sheet music for the song "Adelaide" with music by Beethoven and lyrics, "rendered into English from the German of Matthisson by J.W. Mould." 14 1/2 x 10 1/2", 10pp, cream paper, black text. Front cover with an index of 50 songs, back cover with inventory by artist. Toned uniformly, damp… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1918. Nouvelle edition. Original Printed Paper Wraps. Good + overall. Blue paper wraps with black text on front., with a portrait of the author and two monograms by Picasso. 12mo, 74pp, heavy paper, slt. fox spotting, title on blue cover. Text in French. Collection des Tracts - No. 1. OCLC: 2487762.

1950. Three painted mock up designs for album covers by Curt John Witt. Two of Witt's designs were used, for Tschaikovsky's Nutcraker Suite (sic) and for "Songs of the West". The Nutcracker was record number P[ontiac] 10-13 "2094" and the text is altered from that shown here, (Austrian Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Woss conductor). The "Songs of the… Read more about this item

New York: Waterson Berlin and Snyder, 1916. Ephemera. Very good condition. As sung by Al Jolson. The cover illustration is of a black man with a goat, with a bottle of liquor attached to its collar. Piano Score & Lyrics. Folio, 6pp, cover illustration by Barbelle, orange and black. Slt edgewear, otherwise vg. LOC Classification 53/3595.

Wien / Leipzig: Verlag Gerlach und Wiedling, 1920. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Songs with both music and text, attractively printed in colors in the manor of a Medieval antiphonal. Endpapers in an insect design. Slim 12mo, 96pp, publishers binding with gilt title on front board and green oxidized gilt spine. Corners chipped.

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London & New York, 1958. Robeson has signed the cover of a London concert program at The Lord Melchett Hall, Maccabi House, Compayne Gardens, N.W.6. It is trimmed to 5x3". On the verso is a partial listing of the concert, including "Group of Negro Spirituals and of English Songs Paul Robeson. At the Piano: Lawrence Brown." It… Read more about this item

Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts,, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dj.. Signed by the 14 contributing authors on front free endpaper. The book features paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, including a list of the 100 essential books printed on Hawaii before the end of the 19th century. Also includes chapters on surfing, ukuleles, kitsch, quilt making sculpture,… Read more about this item

Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1895. Later printing. Flexible 'Ivorine'. Fine. A gift binding, beautifully illustrated and designed, one of Stephen Foster's early musical compositions. This edition is not recorded in OCLC. OCLC 13422575 cites an earlier edition, published by Nims and Knight in Troy. Joseph Knight went out on his own in about 1892, located in Boston, and… Read more about this item