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The Memphis Blues (Or Mr. Crump). [Inscribed to Noble Sissle]

The Memphis Blues (Or Mr. Crump). [Inscribed to Noble Sissle] by [Music – Blues – Inscribed Copies] Handy, W. C.; Robinson, J. Russel

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Seller: Auger Down Books
Title
The Memphis Blues (Or Mr. Crump). [Inscribed to Noble Sissle]
Author
[Music – Blues – Inscribed Copies] Handy, W. C.; Robinson, J. Russel
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Excellent condition.
Description
New York: W.C. Handy, 1940. Folio sheet music, 8 pp. Inscribed to Noble Sissle and signed by both J. Russel Robinson and W. C. Handy. Excellent condition.. The sheet music for one of the foundational publications of American blues, inscribed to Noble Sissle. Written by W. C. Handy with collaborator J. Russel Robinson and first issued in 1912, “The Memphis Blues (Or Mr. Crump)” is widely considered one of the first blues compositions to achieve broad popularity through commercial sheet music. The piece originated as a campaign song for Memphis political figure Edward H. “Boss” Crump but was quickly adapted for popular use. Sissle (1889–1975), later known for the landmark Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) with Eubie Blake, was active in Black theatrical and orchestral music during the 1910s and 1920s and performed a number of Handy’s compositions. Sissle and Handy remained connected professionally over their careers. Sissle and his orchestra performed and recorded Handy’s “St. Louis Blues,” and he participated in recordings of Handy’s “Loveless Love” beginning in the early 1920s and again in later revival recordings during the 1930s. In later decades Sissle and Blake also involved Handy in projects celebrating early Black musical theatre and blues, including demonstrations and recordings prepared for a proposed revival of Shuffle Along in 1950. Their collaborations frequently centered on presenting Handy’s blues compositions in concert and recording contexts that highlighted the development of Black popular music. The song “Memphis Blues” was also quite significant in Sissle’s position as vocalist and drum major in the regimental band of the 369th Infantry Regiment during the First World War, where he performed with James Reese Europe. Sissle appeared as one of the band’s featured singers and helped present the group’s popular repertoire, “Memphis Blues” being one of their core pieces. This inscription happened after 1940, per the copyright renewal note on the sheet which we used to date it. Overall a fantastic association, linking Handy, Robinson and Sissle early in their careers.
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Norma. Facsimile della Partitura Autografa Volume Primo [-Secondo]. [Facsimile of the autograph musical manuscript full score] by BELLINI, Vincenzo 1801-1835

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Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Title
Norma. Facsimile della Partitura Autografa Volume Primo [-Secondo]. [Facsimile of the autograph musical manuscript full score]
Author
BELLINI, Vincenzo 1801-1835
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Roma: Real Accademia d'Italia, 1935. 2 volumes. Oblong folio. Original publisher's light gray boards with dark gray printed title label to upper and spine of each volume. Vol. 1 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title printed in red and black, verso blank), 1f. (recto printed note by Ottorino Respighi regarding the opera with printed date of "23 Settembre 1935-XIII," verso note regarding facsimile reproduction), 1f. (recto facsimile reproduction of original title-page, verso blank), 147ff. (i.e. 294 pp.) autograph musical manuscript facsimile. Vol. 2 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title printed in red and black, verso blank), 103ff. (i.e. 206 pp.) autograph musical manuscript facsimile. Bindings slightly worn. Published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bellini's death. Norma, in two acts to a libretto by Felice Romani after Alexandre Soumet's verse tragedy Norma, was first performed in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala on 26 December 1831. "Norma has always been revered above other Italian operas of the period ... The title role is one of the most taxing and wide-ranging parts in the entire repertory: a noble character whose tragedy lies in her fatal love for an enemy of her people. The many different aspects of Norma's temperament are marvellously drawn by Bellini, not only in the aria 'Casta diva', but also in the superb duets with Adalgisa and Pollione, and in the ensemble in the finale of Act 2, where Bellini reaches his peak as a musical dramatist." Simon Maguire and Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online.
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Handbuch der Chormusik Band I [-II] by VALENTIN, Erich

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Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Title
Handbuch der Chormusik Band I [-II]
Author
VALENTIN, Erich
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes. Small quarto. Full black cloth with decorative design gilt to uppers, titling to spines gilt. 645; 525 + publisher's advertisements. Slightly browned; minor foxing to endpapers. In slightly worn dustjacket.
UNDERWORLD (1927) Photo ft. Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft, Clive Brook

UNDERWORLD (1927) Photo ft. Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft, Clive Brook by Paramount

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Title
UNDERWORLD (1927) Photo ft. Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft, Clive Brook
Author
Paramount
Seller
Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: Paramount Pictures, [1927]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, light crease and rippling from descriptive paper snipe on back, near fine.A portrait of Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft and Clive Brook from Josef von Sternberg's gangster film, often cited as a proto-film noir.Grant, p. 675: "Important precursor of the 1930s US gangster movie and, as such, significant to noir's ancestry." Silver and Ward, p. 301: "Enhanced immeasurably by the exotic visual preoccupations of ... Sternberg, which encompass a range of original symbols and imagery... The script, as written by ex-newspaperman Ben Hecht, realistically details the personalities populating the sordid speakeasies and dingy dwellings of the gangsters."
NOW FOR A STORY!

NOW FOR A STORY! by Henty, G.A. (and others)

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NOW FOR A STORY!
Author
Henty, G.A. (and others)
Seller
Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1893. A Collection of Short Original Stories for Children. London: Skeffington and Son, 1893. Original light blue paper-covered boards decorated in white, pink, green and black. First Edition of this anthology of 18 "short original stories for children" by 13 different authors of the day -- including G. A. Henty ("The Wreckers of Pendarven"); others include L.T. Meade, Mrs. Molesworth and Mabel Wotton. It is a very delicate book, because it was bound in paper-covered boards rather than in cloth. This copy is in very good condition, the main flaw being that the volume has been re-backed in similarly-light-blue cloth, with most of the original spine laid back down; the original light brown patterned endpapers are covered with later blue-patterned ones. Newbolt 165.1.
Recording Britain

Recording Britain by Cumberledge, Geoffrey

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Title
Recording Britain
Author
Cumberledge, Geoffrey
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Oxford: Oxford University Press / The Pilgrim Press, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Four volumes complete 4to., 222(1)pp., 218(1)pp., 227(1)pp, 238pp,. Beautiful First Edition of this comprehensive survey of counties, towns and buildings throughout Great Britain. Bound in brick-colored cloth with tittle in gilt on spine. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a hint of page edge toning. Very little wear. Perhaps a gently bumped tip or two; a couple of rubs here and there but a very well-preserved set. A very attractive collectable set and quite uncommon in any condition. Please note: As this is a very heavy set, International and Priority orders will require additional postage.
Secrets of the Hand-cuff Trick. Also an Expose of the Famous Needle Trick, with a Short Article on Hypnotism as Practised on the Stage To-day (Title from Front Wrap)

Secrets of the Hand-cuff Trick. Also an Expose of the Famous Needle Trick, with a Short Article on Hypnotism as Practised on the Stage To-day (Title from Front Wrap) by Mutual Book Company

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Title
Secrets of the Hand-cuff Trick. Also an Expose of the Famous Needle Trick, with a Short Article on Hypnotism as Practised on the Stage To-day (Title from Front Wrap)
Author
Mutual Book Company
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Boston: Mutual Book Company, Publishers, Booksellers, 1907. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 x 3 3/4; pp. [1], 4-31; beige wraps, ruled and printed in black and decorated with a small vignette; illustrated with numerous photographs; a few minor spots to margins of wraps and a tiny nick to fore-edge of front wrap; a small cut to top edge of back wrap, along spine; in very good- condition. An uncommon, amusing, and frankly bizarre little book (OCLC lists 3 institutional holdings with none in the trade at time of cataloging), it began with a richly-illustrated with photos chapter on the famous handcuff trick, "...here revealed for the first time." It also explained "The Needle Trick," assuring the reader it was easily-accomplishable with very little practice and "only" involved placing of 10 needles in one's mouth. The truly-outlandish sections instructed on how to hypnotise, how to make a subject fall backward, how to produce sleep, how to make a subject forget his name, etc.
Hudson River and Its Painters

Hudson River and Its Painters by Art. Howat, John K. (Auth)

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Title
Hudson River and Its Painters
Author
Art. Howat, John K. (Auth)
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Viking, 1972 Orange cloth boards, a few smudges to endpaper else fine; color illustrated dust wrapper with rubbing at folds. Color and b&w reproductions of artwork by artists of the Hudson River School. Large heavy book, will require extra postage.. First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Large 4to.
PAPER MAKER.|THE

PAPER MAKER.|THE

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Title
PAPER MAKER.|THE
Seller
Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
Wilmington: Hercules Powder Co, 1963. spiral plastic spine with stiff paper wrappers. Papermaking. 4to. spiral plastic spine with stiff paper wrappers. 43+(1) pages. Volume 32, No.2. Voorn on the history of Dutch paper commerce, an article on Hans Spilman and an article on papier mache.
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The Layman's Parallel New Testament

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Title
The Layman's Parallel New Testament
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Zondervan, 1971. Very Good. The Layman's Parallel New Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1971. 943pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with some bumped edges. Gift inscription verso of half title.

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