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Berat, Frederic My Normandy (Ma Normandie) - Sheet Music
Baltimore G. Willig Jr. 1840 Sheet Music Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Complete; six pages including the cover. The cover illustration shows a gentleman relaxing under a tree by the side of a road. My Normandy is the semi-official anthem of the Baliwick of Jersey, one of the British Channel Islands, which historically was part of the Duchy of Normandy. The song is also widely used as a regional--but unofficial--anthem of Normandy. Music has some minor soiling and toning. There is some edge wear (the music was previously in a privately bound volume) and a small store stamp on the front cover.
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45.00 USD
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Berlin, Irving At the Devil's Ball
New York Waterson, Berlin & Snyder 1913 First Edition Sheet Music Near Fine Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Nice sheet music of a relatively forgotten Berlin composition with a terrific cover that shows a large red devil pulling back a curtain to reveal a number of men and women dancing as costumed devils and devilettes Clean. Light wear and toning. 1.5" slit at the base of the spine fold.
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20.00 USD
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Berlin, Irving The Ragtime Soldier Man [Sheet Music]
New York Ted Snyder; Waterson, Berlin & Snyder 1912 Sheet Music Near Fine No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Pfeiffer, E. H.
Rag. 5 pages. Nice cover illustration of soldier dancing to dodge giant bullets. Clean pages. Light cover wear. See accompanying scanned image.
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30.00 USD
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Berlin, Irving This is the Life - Sheet Music
New York Waterson, Berlin & Snyder 1914 Sheet Music Very Good
Approximately 11"x14". 6 pages including cover. "Successfully Introduced by Al. Jolson. Terrific large sepia photo of Jolson. Clean pages. Light wear. See accompanying image.
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45.00 USD
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Brooks, Shelton Some of These Days
Chicago Will Rossiter 1922 Sheet Music Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Sophie Tucker's classic. Photo inset of Tucker on the cover. 6 pages including the cover. Clean with some wear. Music store and conservatory stamps on front cover.
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25.00 USD
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Cohan, George M. Over There
New York Leo Feist 1917 Sheet Music Very Good
Nice copy of an early printing without the French lyrics. Cover shows J.M. Reilly, a sailor from the U.S.S. Wisconsin. Some edgewear with a few small closed tears. See accompanying scanned image.
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20.00 USD
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Deems, James M. The Telegraph Quick Step [Sheet Music]
Baltimore F. D. Benteen 1844 Sheet Music Near Fine No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
2 leaves (2 pages of music inside of two blank pages). Once bound in a private volume. "As performed by the Independent Blues Band" and "Respectfully Dedicated to Professor S. P. Morse Inventor of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph." On 24 May 1844, the first telegraph line (between Washington DC and Baltimore) officially opened with the transmission of the test message, "What hath God wrought?" Later that year, Deems composed this piece in honor of the telegraph's inventor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse. Music is clean with very light soiling. Slight wear along one edge where it was previously bound.
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300.00 USD
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Emmett, Dan. (Daniel) D. I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land [Sheet Music]
New York Firth, Pond & Co. 1860 First Edition Sheet Music Very Good
Very nice example of Emmett's classic, published after the extremely rare New Orleans southern printings. "Written and Composed expressly for Bryant's Minstrels." "Arranged for the Pianoforte by W. L. Hobbs." No mention of guitar on cover. Last page shows Firth & Pond advertisement No. 1, 1860. This format has been long considered to be the first authorized edition, however some maintain that the 'first' authorized printing by Firth, Pond & Co. had no advertisements on the rear cover (see Fuld, Book of World Famous Music, and Dichter/Shapiro, Early American Sheet Music). Others have stated that the copyright date on the front cover of the 'first' authorized printing was originally and mistakenly shown as 1858 (see Christie's Sale 2011, Lot 23, 12 June 08). The precedence of the three printings has not been definitively established. Previously bound in a private album, so some glue along the left edge. Clean pages with light foxing. Second leaf slightly (1/8") trimmed along fore-edge. No rips or tears.
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600.00 USD
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Feltman, Alfred Ziz - Sheet Music
New York E.T. Paull 1906 Sheet Music Very Good
Complete: 8 pages including cover. Although the multi-color cover illustration of this sheet music features lightning flashing across the night sky, the title actually alludes to an early Coney Island roller coaster ride. Feltman's father, Charles, owned and operated a giant Coney Island beer-garden restaurant named, appropriately enough, Feltman's Restaurant. At the turn-of-the-century, the restaurant had over 1,200 workers, seated 8,000 customers, and served well over 1 million meals each year in several different theme-based sections with costumed waiters, bands, and entertainers. The complex also held a movie-house, dance hall, merry-go-rounds, and from 1905-1908 a three-rail electric roller-coaster, the Ziz, that wound through the gardens, out to the sea, and returned. Interestingly, since Feltman's opened in the 1870s, in addition to an endless variety of seafood, it was famous for serving sausages (though not necessarily frankfurters or wieners) on a piece of bread or in a roll (though not necessarily a bun) as a type of early hot dog that cost 10 cents. In 1916, one of Feltman's employees, Nathan Handwerker a bun-maker, was encouraged by two of the restaurant's young singing waiters, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, to go into business for himself. Nathan and his wife used their life-savings to open a small street-side grill where they undercut Feltman and captured most of his sausage business by selling better-tasting Nathan's hotdogs for only 5 cents. Clean pages with bright cover color. Some edge wear and some minor splitting starting along the spine.
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75.00 USD
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Fields, Arthur and Walter Donovan Aba Daba Honeymoon
New York Leo Feist 1914 Sheet Music Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Anthropomorphic monkeys were quite popular in the early years of the 20th century, perhaps as a result of debate over Darwin's theories. This novelty song about a monkey marriage was a big hit, and gained a second wind in the 1950s when sung by Debbie Reynolds and Charlton Carpenter in Two Weeks With Love. Complete. Clean. Small owner's stamp at base of cover.
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35.00 USD
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Frisbie, H. L. The Stars and the Stripes, the Flag of the Free
Chicago Root & Cady's 1861 Sheet Music Very Good Unlisted
Complete. 6 pages including cover. Red, white, and blue patriotic cover features an American flag An early Civil War patriotic song published by Root & Cady. Root & Cady quickly switched from popular music to patriotic songs following the bombardment of Fort Sumter and became the most successful music publisher of the American Civil War. Among it's hit tunes were The First Gun is Fired, The Battle Cry of Freedom, Just Before the Battle Mother, Tramp Tramp Tramp, On the Boys are Marching, and The Vacant Chair. Clean pages. Light wear and minor soiling. Once bound. Slight tobacco odor.
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125.00 USD
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Goodwin, Joe and Lew Brown The Ragtime Dream [Sheet Music]
New York Leo Feist 1913 First Edition Sheet Music Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Rag. Nice piece of sheet music features cover illustration of ten stylized dancing men. Complete. 6 pages including cover. Some light soiling. Splits starting at spine ends. Owner's name in upper right corner of front cover.
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35.00 USD
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Grobe, Charles Major Anderson's Grand March [Sheet Music]
Philadelphia Lee & Walker 1861 Sheet Music Very Good Unlisted
Complete. 6 pages including cover. An early Civil War patriotic march published shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter. Cover features a large portrait of Major Robert Anderson, the Commander of the Fort Sumter. Clean with only light wear. Once bound. Slight tobacco odor.
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200.00 USD
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Heber, Reginald with Music By Lowell Mason From Greenland's Icy Mountains [Sheet Music]
Philadelphia J. C. Smith 1835 Sheet Music Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
2 leaves (2 pages of music inside two blank pages). Once bound in a private volume. Circa 1835 based on the dates of other music in the same volume. This is Lowell Mason's arrangement of Reginal Heber's famous missionary hymn. "The most animating and missionary hymn ever written." see Smith's "Hymns Historically Famous." Heber wrote the words to this song in 1819 for his father-in-law's church in response to a Royal letter requesting hymns be composed in honor of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Allthough the lyrics to the hymn were were published throughout the English-speaking world, its tune varied by local until a Savannah woman requested a young bank clerk, who had a local reputation as a church composer, to write the music. That clerk was Lowell Mason who was to become the leading figure in American church music throughout most of the 1800s. Music is clean with some toning. Wear along one edge where it was previously bound.
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40.00 USD
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Herzer, Wallie Everybody Twostep Rag - Sheet Music
Jerome H. Remick 1911 Soft Cover Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
6 pages including the cover. This rag features a cover illustration of a black banjo player that is notorious for being one of most disgusting racist caricatures on any piece of sheet music. Clean; no splits or tape. Several very tiny closed marginal tears on front cover. Slight sliver of light color loss in lower left cover corner. Minor edgewear.
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150.00 USD
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