FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC TO THE STOCKHOLDERS. JUNE 5TH, 1905.
Philadelphia: Press of Allen, Lane & Scott, 1905. 8pp, two staples. Light dustsoiling, light tanning. Good+. More
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BANDMANN BEAUDET CO. GREATEST ORGANIZATION EN ROUTE. [On verso: ACADEMY OF MUSIC! ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY, FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE EMINENT TRAGEDIAN DANIEL E. BANDMANN, AND THE TALENTED YOUNG ACTRESS MISS LOUISE BEAUDET, SUPPORTED BY AN EXCELLENT COMPANY OF ARTISTS, FOR ONE WEEK! COMMENCING MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1886. MONDAY NIGHT, OTHELLO. TUESDAY NIGHT, CORSICAN BROTHERS. OTHER GREAT PLAYS TO FOLLOW. POPULAR PRICES: PARQUETTE, 35CTS., DRESS CIRCLE, 25 CTS., GALLERY, 15 CTS. NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR RESERVED SEATS.
New York: Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann Lith. 1886. Broadsheet, 4.75" x 7.75", full color lithographed handbill, with portrait illustration of Bandmann in oval border surrounded by several flags, a bust of Shakespeare, and several small illustrations. Verso printed with black ink. Small chip to a blank corner, small closed tear..... More
TREMONT TEMPLE. STRANGERS' SABBATH HOME. SERVICES, 10 1-2 AND 3 AND 7 1-2 O'CLOCK. OPEN TO ALL.| SABBATH SCHOOL AND BIBLE CLASSES AT 1 1-2 O'CLOCK.| YOUNG PEOPLE'S MEETING AT 6 O'CLOCK.| FORTY-SIXTH SERIES.| HYMNS. | "ALL ARE INVITED TO JOIN IN SINGING."
[Boston]: J.A. Cummings & Co., Prs. [1870s?]. Broadside, 5" x 11 1/4". Printed in black ink using several different typesettings. Edgeworn, archival tape repairs on verso of short closed tears. About Good+. Evidently unrecorded OCLC 31877942 notes a similar broadside, located only at Brown, by the same printer... More
BLAINE AND LOGAN SONGSTER.
[Philadelphia: Thos. Hunter, 1884]. 64pp, original staples and wrappers. Words and music, lightly worn. A doodle on one page, else Very Good. The wrappers are illustrated with portraits of "our martyred Presidents," Lincoln and Garfield; and portraits of Grant, Washington, and others. Songs include 'America,' 'Wearing of the Blue,' 'Come..... More
CANADIAN ROSE BUD SONG BOOK. CONTAINING ALL THE POPULAR SONGS OF THE DAY. [NO. 2.] Toronto, Ont.: A.S.
Irving, Publisher, 35 King Street West: [1880?]. [1, title page], [1 blank], [vii]-99, [1 blank] pp. Original printed wrappers [light chipping, minor foxing, faded numerical stamp on front wrap], disbound, loosened. A few minor spots of foxing, else clean. Good+. OCLC notes publishing date as 1880 and shows pages as..... More
CATALOGUE OF SHEET MUSIC AND MUSIC BOOKS. FOR SALE BY ED. W. CASE, CITY DRUG STORE, MAIN STREET, PICTON.
Toronto: Imrie & Graham, Printers, [1888?]. 64pp + original printed yellow wrappers, with wrapper title [as issued]. Light soil, Very Good. OCLC locates only three copies of this scarce catalogue, all in Canada and under two accession numbers. Contents include anthems, banjo music, Catholic music, flute music, military band music..... More
SHE'S BLACK, BUT THATS NO MATTER. COMPOSED BY HENRY HOWARD PAUL, ESQ. AND SUNG BY EDWIN P. CHRISTY. CHRISTY'S ANMERICAN OPERA HOUSE, N.Y.
New York: [1853]. 10" x 13 1/2". Reinforced spine. 5, [1 blank] pp, elaborately printed title page. Light scattered foxing, about Very Good. Words and music. The song was included in several anthologies of freedom songs during the Civil War. This is the "authorized and genuine edition." Library of Congress, Music..... More
WAR-SONGS FOR FREEMEN. DEDICATED TO THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES: AND ESPECIALLY TO THE 2D, 15TH, AND 20TH REGIMENTS OF MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS, IN HONOR OF THEIR HEROIC COMRADES, FALLEN IN THE COUNTRY'S CAUSE, AND TO THE 43D, 44TH, AND 45TH REGIMENTS, IN CONFIDENT EXPECTATION THAT THEY WILL EQUAL THE BEST EXAMPLE. SECOND EDITION.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 12mo. Stitched in original printed wrappers. [4], 56 pp. Wrappers with light to moderate wear and some spotting. A couple of blank margin tears, scattered text foxing. Good+. Thirty songs, with music, including 'A Mighty Fortress is Our God,' Julia Ward Howe's 'Harvard-Students' Song,'..... More
GOD SAVE THE SOUTH. OUR NATIONAL CONFEDERATE ANTHEM. THE TEXT BY ERNEST HALPIN. COMPOSED BY C.T. DE COENIEL RICHMOND VA. PUBLISHED BY THE COMPOSER AND MAY BE HAD AT HIS RESIDENCE GRACE ST. COR 1ST & OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL BOOK & MUSIC STORES IN THE CONFEDERACY. LITH BY E. GREHEN 146 MAIN ST.
Richmond: [1863]. [5], [1 blank] pp. Folio, 13-1/4" x 10" on 2 unbound, folded sheets. Light dusting, Very Good. With words and music; lithograph title leaf depicting a kneeling soldier, sword drawn, holding aloft the Confederate flag with the legend, 'GOD SAVE THE SOUTH.' The figure '2' is enclosed within..... More
JEFF IN PETTICOATS. A SONG FOR THE TIMES. WORDS BY GEORGE COOPER. MUSIC BY HENRY TUCKER.
New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., [1865]. Folio. 5, [1- advt] pp. Words and music. Title page with lithograph of Jefferson Davis, in his wife's dress and holding a knife, running from a Union soldier whose gun is drawn. His wife, also in a dress, remonstrates; two men are..... More
TO MISS FANNIE A. WATTS | BLOOMINGTON, IND. DAY DREAMS! SOLO OR DUETT. WORDS BY ANDREW DOWNING. MUSIC BY E.K. COLE, M.D.
[New Orleans: Published by Louis Grunewald, 129 Canal Street, 1860s? ]. Quarto. [5], [1 advt] pp. With Dr. Cole's penciled signature, and inscription to a Miss Hattie ---. Decorated title border, disbound, mild spotting, else Very Good with words and music. Final page lists "New and Popular Music Published by..... More
THE BABY'S FESTIVAL OF DANCES. ARRANGED BY J. DUNNING.
Cincinnati: W.C. Peters & Sons; Louisville: Peters Webb Co.; Cleveland: Molbrook & Long; St. Louis: Balmer & Weber, [1853]. Folio, 10" x 13-1/2", disbound, loose. 6pp. Music only, no words. Original printed and full color illustrated wrappers, engraving of several well dressed ladies, babies in their arms and small rocking..... More
TO VIOLA BARRETT. MY SWEETHEART CAME A COURTING. BALLAD. WRITTEN BY MRS. C. EDMONSTON | MUSIC BY E.K. COLE, M.D.
[New Orleans: 1865]. Quarto. [3], [1 blank] pp. With Dr. Cole's penciled signature, and inscription to a Miss Hattie ---. Decorated title border, red and black inks. Light edge wear, disbound, Very Good with words and music. More
GARFIELD AND ARTHUR CAMPAIGN SONG BOOK. PUBLISHED BY THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, WASHINGTON, D.C.
[Philadelphia: J.M. Armstrong & Co., Music Typographers and Printers, 1880]. 24pp, stitched in original printed and illustrated wrappers [worn at inner margin of wrappers], with wrapper title [as issued]. Good+. Lots of songs, with music, celebrating the Republicans' Civil War achievements, the life of 'Jim Garfield of the West,' condemning..... More
THE SONGS OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS. (AUTHORIZED EDITION.).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1875. Original printed front wrapper, stitched. Pages xi, [2], 206-272 [as issued]. Frontis illustration of Jubilee Hall. A couple of short, closed tears without loss. Good+. The Introduction is signed 'E.M.C.', which stands, evidently, for E.M. Cravath. It explains the beginnings of Fisk University and its..... More
DAS NEUE UND VERBESSERTE GESANG-BUCH, WORINNEN DIE PSALMEN DAVIDS...VOR DIE EVANGELISCH-REFORMIRTEN GEMEINEN IN DEN VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VON AMERICA.
Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Steiner und Kammerer, und H. Kammerer, jun, 1797. Bound in contemporary calf, raised spine bands, clasps. Relief-cut frontispiece. Pages [8], 148, [8], 585, [43]. Printed in double columns. Endpapers spotted. A Very Good copy in an attractive contemporary binding. Early ink writing on front free endpaper, modern..... More
DAS NEUE UND VERBESSERTE GESANGBUCH, WORINNEN DIE PSALMEN DAVIDS...VOR DIE EVANGELISCH-REFORMIRTEN GEMEINEN IN DEN VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VON AMERICA. ZWEYTE AUFLAGE.
Germantaun: Gedruckt bey Michael Billmeyer, 1799. Bound in original sheep, raised spine bands, lacking the clasps [some chipping, but a firm binding]. Frontispiece. pp [8], 148, [8], 585, [9- Register], 26 pp. Printed in two columns per page. Very Good. Some music is included. Evans 35453, 36193. ESTC W6294. More
H. M.S. PINAFORE OR THE LASS THAT LOVED A SAILOR. AN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL NAUTICAL COMIC OPERA IN TWO ACTS. THE MUSIC BY... SULLIVAN. THE BOOK BY... GILBERT.
Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1926. 40pp, stitched in original printed and illustrated wrappers [light wear]. Very Good. More
GEN. SCOTT'S GRAND REVIEW MARCH.
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co. 277 Washington St. [1861]. 9-1/2" x 13-1/4." [6], [1 blank] pp. J.H. Bufford's Lithograph on title page, a color portrait of a seated Scott, in full military uniform under a canopy of the American flag. Light foxing, Very Good. Music only, no words, and probably..... More
OUR COUNTRY'S FLAG. SONG COMPOSED AND DEDICATED TO HIS EXCELLENCY ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. BY G. GUMPERT.
Philadelphia: G. Andre & Co., [1861?]. Sheet music. Folio, 10.5" x 13.75". 5, [1 blank] pp, folded [pp.3-4 loose]. Attractive color lithograph on title leaf of young soldier in military camp holding an American flag, signed in type, 'J. Queen Del. & Lith; P.S. Duval & Son Lith. Philada.' At..... More
HARRISON MELODIES. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE BOSTON HARRISON CLUB.
Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1840. Original printed brown wrappers, with portrait of Harrison. Stitched, 72pp. Light foxing, private owner's rubberstamp, Very Good. Enthusiastic Boston Whigs dedicate these campaign songs to Harrison, "the gallant soldier, the enlightened statesman, the consistent republican, and the honest man." Most of the songs..... More
HAYES AND WHEELER SONG BOOK.
[np: 1876]. 32pp, disbound, caption title [as isssued]. Good+, but lacking the wrappers [which probably include title and imprint]. With words and music for a variety of campaign and patriotic songs, rallying the Republican forces for the 1876 presidential election. OCLC 18310840 [4]. More
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. FILLMORE QUICK STEP AS PERFORMED BY THE INDEPENDENT BLUES BAND. COMPOSED AND ARRANGED BY ALBERT HOLLAND.
Baltimore: Miller & Beacham, [1856]. 10 1/4" x 13 1/4". Lithograph of Fillmore by A. Hoen & Co., of Baltimore. [1], [1 blank], [3pp of music], [1 blank] pp. Light wear, Very Good. The title page oval lithograph shows Fillmore surrounded by abbreviated States' names, each on a shield. It..... More
INVITATION HYMN.
[Enfield MA: Printed by Solomon Howe, 1838]. Broadside, 6.25" x 8". [Enfield, MA? 1838?]. Untrimmed. Beneath title is illustration of Masonic emblems. Printed in double columns, ten numbered stanzas. Words only, no music. Minor foxing, Very Good. OCLC states the following: "Imprint information from Howe bibliography in Proc. Amer..... More
BURCH'S ORCHESTRA CONCERT, AT COLUMBIA HALL, ODELL, ILL., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1904. VIOLINS... F.M. BURCH, CECIL PHELPS, CARLOS COOK; BASS VIOL... HARRY ARMSTRONG; FLUTE AND PICCALO.... E.W. KINSLEY; CLARINETS... J. ROLLIN RUFF, ALBERT SHEPHERD; CORNETS... J.A. BURCH, ELMER TRAVIS; TROMBONE... MRS. A.M. BURCH. PROGRAM. PART I...
[Odell, IL? 1904]. Folio broadsheet, 8.5" x 15.5". Actual program information is contained in a block measuring 2.25" x 6" on the recto and 2.25" x 4" on the verso. The remainder of the broadsheet is filled with advertisements. Tanned, old folds with splits [crude tape repairs, no text loss]..... More