GERSHWIN, GeorgeABAA
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1935réf. 212351New York: Random House 1935. Limited. hardcover. very good. Libretto by Dubose Heyward; Lyrics by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Frontispiece and title page decoration by George Biddle. Small folio full red leather professionally recased with most of the original spine preserved and with the black morocco labels restamped. New York: Random House 1935. First Edition. One of 250 copies autographed by both Gershwins Heyward and Rouben Mamoulian the director. A very good copy. Random House unknown books
1941réf. 45968NY: Chappell 1941. Sheet music. 4to pp. 5. Music by Kurt Weill. Pink wraps with photo of Gertrude Lawrence. Cover very slightly soiled o/w a nice copy. Chappell unknown books
1927réf. 46050NY: New World Music/Harms 1927. Music. 4to pp. 12. Cover split partway at fold o/w VG. New World Music/Harms unknown books
1928réf. 586928New York: New World Music / Harms 1928. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Some light toning else near fine. For voice and piano with chord diagrams for ukulele. Plate imprint "N.W. 68-4 Oh Gee! ect." Features seven short samples of other Gershwin compositions including "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Clap Yo' Hands." The front cover features a black and white portrait of Marilyn Miller. OCLC locates 4 holdings. New World Music / Harms unknown books
1928réf. 586932New York: New World Music / Harms 1928. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Sunning to the exterior else near fine. For voice and piano with chord diagrams for ukulele. Plate imprint "N.W. 69-4 Say So ect." Features six short samples of other Gershwin compositions including "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Oh Lady Be Good" The front cover features a black and white portrait of Marilyn Miller. New World Music / Harms unknown books
1938réf. 99122New York: Privately printed 1938. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile of the handwritten score. Folio. Full leather ruled with a Greek key design and lettered in gilt. Blue silk endpapers all edges gilt. Fine. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed dated 12 April 1938 from Abraham Ellis to Gershwin's mother Rose who was the unmarried composer's heir. Ellis announces in the letter that he has just purchased the Manhattan Opera House which became the Manhattan Center and that with Rose's permission he would like to rename the rebuilt auditorium the Gershwin Room. This volume was apparently a private photographic reproduction of the score that was produced for family and friends before the manuscript was eventually donated to the Library of Congress. Gershwin's mother's copy with the letter dated less than a year after the composer's untimely death. A classic of 20th Century composition and inspiration for the Vincente Minnelli film scripted by Alan Jay Lerner around Gershwin's music and starring Gene Kelly Leslie Caron and Oscar Levant. Privately printed hardcover books
1983réf. 341505New York: Playbill 1983. Softcover. Near Fine. Playbill program. April 1983. 82 pp. 22 cm. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Printed for the original run at the St. James Theatre on Broadway. Winner of multiple 1983 Tony awards with Twiggy and Tommy Tune and Charles "Honi" Coles in the lead roles. Playbill unknown books
2013réf. CNAP098bSan Francisco: The Arion Press 2013. Hardcover. New. Kara Walker. Quarto 12-5/8 by 9-3/4 inches 136 pages. Prints editioned by Derrière L’Etoile Studio NYC under the supervision of Maurice Sanchez. Bound with red leather spine and printed cotton sides in slipcase. Edition of 400 numbered and signed copies for sale. Additional suite of four lithographs different from the images in the book signed and numbered by the artist. This artist book of Porgy & Bess the libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin is the occasion for Kara Walker’s first series of lithographs. The book contains 16 lithographs with another four images not in the book in a separate portfolio. Porgy & Bess has been controversial since its premiere in 1935; Kara Walker is known for her controversial art on themes of race violence and American history. In her Artist’s Statement she says of the characters: "they’ve become archetypes of another no less grand drama that of: ‘American Negroes drawn up by white authors and retooled by individual actors amid charges of racism and counter charges of high-art on stage and screen in the face of social and political upheaval over generations." This fraught status along with memories of her mother’s reaction to a cast recording led her to render them in a straightforward way "…more an homage to the feeling of the music. And to that feeling I had as a child of a heavy atmosphere hanging around a timeless act of love." ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
1932réf. 130Ltd to 300 numbered copies signed by Gershwin & the illustrator Alajalov on the colophon. Orig. moroccan leather cover with gilt title. Gilt title on spine. Includes the 8pp pamphlet containing the song: "Mischa Yascha Toscha" inserted in rear pocket as issued. Slightly rubbed at edges but a beautiful copy! Spine has been professionally rebacked. Signed. Also annotated in pencil on free end paper by singer Gerald Shattuck: "Yps - while this is signed by the composer & the illustrator I feel it would not be complete until signed by the choice singer of these lovely ballads. None other than Gerald Shattuck". Random House hardcover books
1953réf. 502093PROGRAM for the Blevins Davis/Robert Breen production of "Porgy and Bess" Ziegfeld Theatre New York 1953 starring Cab Calloway LeVern Hutchinson and Leslie Scott. 4to. 37 b/w photographs numerous b/w illustrations. Stiff color pictorial wraps. books
1997réf. 336521San Francisco: The SF Gay men's Chorus 1997. 20p. includes covers 89.5x11 inches lightly-worn glossy program booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. The SF Gay men's Chorus unknown books
1946réf. 597834New York: Columbia Masterworks 1946. Hardcover. Good. Later pressing two 12" 78 rpm shellac records. Piano performed by Oscar Levant with the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy as conductor. one side Prelude No. 2 and Prelude No. 3 is quite soiled along the area that was sticking out of the top of the paper sleeve and playback will likely be affected the other three sides suffer from some minor wear but appear largely playable overall a good or better set in a good or better album-style case with quarter cloth papercovered boards and two unprinted paper sleeves bound in with some soiling to the recto of the first paper sleeve and edgewear and rubbing to the boards. Columbia Masterworks MX-251. Contains "Rhapsody in Blue" "Prelude No. 2" and "Prelude No. 3. Columbia Masterworks hardcover books
1926réf. 319092New York: Harms 1926. Sheet_music. 1 2-5 1p. wraps. 11.75 x 9 in. Ink stamp on front cover: “Ned Douglass Seattle Wash.” Covers lightly faded and worn along spine; crease and small tear at foot of the front cover. Very Good. Sheet music for voice and piano. From the musical about Jazz Age bootleggers who fall in love. Harms unknown books
1944réf. 215197New York: Al Greenstone 1944. Magazine. 20p includes covers 9x11.75 inches programme cast and crew bios photos scene breakdown numbers printed in blue inks on white stock cover in red white and blue illustrated by Hirschfeld musty odor light wear otherwise good souvenir program in stapled pictorial wraps. This is for the revival tour which started at The Majestic. Great Hirschfeld cover drawing. Al Greenstone unknown books
1939réf. 186977New York: Gershwin Publishing Corp. & Chappell & Co. Inc 1939. 6p. including covers 6.75x10.5 inches sheet music and lyrics folded sheets in pictorial covers light wear and toning else very good condition. Cover shows a silhouette-drawn Porgy in a goat-cart the title in production-font. Gershwin Publishing Corp. & Chappell & Co. Inc unknown books
1919réf. 2716Folio. About 32 published song sheets of various sizes the largest being 13 1/4 x 10 bound into one volume. with the signature of Rosalind Wood former Countess Gauardabassi of Perugia Italy. Compilation of WWI Patriotic songs most with colorful cover graphics. Including a typescript of two songs pasted inside the front cover. Includes 3 songs by Irving Berlin Litz Rice George M. Cohan and Jerome Kern among others. 13 1/4 x 10. In Fine condition. This is a unique compilation of music sheets. One of a kind. Various Publishers for each music sheets hardcover books
1953réf. 195098under direction of Robert Breen. New York Everyman Opera 1952. 4to. Introduction reproduces a Dwight D. Eisenhower letter dated March 30 1953. 28 pages including outer printed covers. Gershwin 1898-1937 American composer of theatrical and film scores often with his brother Ira; also known for his semiclassical jazz-influenced orchestral works "Rhapsody in Blue" 1924; "An American in Paris" 1928 and his innovative folk opera "Porgy and Bess" 1935; won first Pulitzer Prize for a musical "Of Thee I Sing" 1931. unknown books
réf. 306242New York Doubleday 1987. First edition so stated. 8vo. Author's 7 page preface and epilogue. 83 b/w illustrations. List of compositions by George and Ira Gershwin bibliography source notes acknowledgments selected discography index. Dust jacket photograph of George Gershwin by Edward Steichen unclipped. Very good-fine. 436 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Study by the noted Gershwin authority. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Doubleday [1987]. hardcover books
réf. 13928LONDON HALE 1962. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. LONDON, HALE, 1962 unknown books
1973réf. 194745NEW YORK ATHENEUM 1973 1973. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED; INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD ROGERS; 11 PLATES IN COLOR AFTER ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS BY GEORGE GERSHWIN; OVER 350 B/W PHOTOGRAPHS; CHRONOLOGY OF PRODUCTION DISCOGRAPHY AND PIANOROLLOGRAPHY; BIBLIOGRAPHY. FIRST EDITION SO STATED VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. NEW YORK, ATHENEUM, 1973 hardcover books
1956réf. 304984New York Henry Holt 1956. 1956. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips; few nicks. Very good. 384 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by Ewen to 20th Century-Fox executive Buddy Adler: "For Buddy Adler with best wishes of the author David Ewen Feb. 12 1956.". Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Henry Holt, 1956. hardcover books
réf. BN164826Springer International Publishing. Liver Immunology: Principles and Practice Liver Immunology: Principles and Practice Gershwin M. Eric; Vierling John M. and Manns Michael P. Springer International Publishing unknown
1941réf. 30932New York: Random House. Near Fine with no dj. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket nice copy with minimal shelfwear some age-toning to endpapers and pastedowns spine lettering rubbed but still readable. B&W photo frontispiece The first Freudian Broadway musical depicting the dreams and nightmares of a fashion magazine editor played in the original production by Gertrude Lawrence who is undergoing psychoanalyis to deal with career pressures and her unsettled romantic life. The original Broadway production debuted in January 1941 and ran for 16 months 467 performances then went on tour before returning to New York for an additional 83 performances finally closing in May 1943; Gertrude Lawrence remained with the show throughout all these performances. And it made a star of one of her co-stars Danny Kaye although he had moved on to another show "Let's Face It!" in the Fall of 1941. It was adapted into a delirious Technicolor film in 1944 under the direction of Mitchell Leisen and starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. Although not marked as such this book comes from the collection of longtime New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther. . c.1941. Random House hardcover
2017réf. BN333894Delius Klasing 2017. 2017. Quallen: Von der Faszination einer verkannten Lebensform Quallen: Von der Faszination einer verkannten Lebensform Lisa-ann Gershwin Delius Klasing unknown
1999réf. BN502022Totowa : Humana Press 1999. 1999. Nutrition and Immunology : Principles and Practice / Hrsg. M. Eric Gershwin ; Hrsg. J. Bruce German ; Hrsg. Carl L. Keen Nutrition and Immunology : Principles and Practice / Hrsg. M. Eric Gershwin ; Hrsg. J. Bruce German ; Hrsg. Carl L. Keen Gershwin M. Eric J. Bruce German und Carl L. Keen Totowa : Humana Press unknown
