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1946réf. 602664New York: Monograph Music Company 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Contract. Single octavo sheet with two holes punched at the topedge. Two small stains staple holes at one corner and a small tears and creases at the edges very good. A music contract Signed by Thelonious Monk assigning the copyright of "Nameless" to Monograph Music Company for the "sum of One Dollar $1.00 and other good and valuable consideration." A contract for the song "52nd Street Theme" listed by its working title and also referred to as "Bip Bop" by Monk. The piece was a regular part of Monk's set and quickly became a popular intro or outro tune for bands playing clubs on 52nd Street in Manhattan at the time. Monograph Music Company unknown books
1930réf. 151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver manuscript ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With manuscript annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura. The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film. Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books