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114 Songs (First Edition)

114 Songs (First Edition)

by Charles E. Ives

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Redding, CT: Charles Ives, 1922. First Edition. First Edition. Second issue, in publisher's blue cloth with titles and rule in gilt on the front board and spine, and with pages 37-39 printed, and no dust jacket as issued. Fine condition. A collection of avant-garde short pieces in every imaginable format (marches, violin sonatas, group sing-a-longs, etc.) written by Ives using the poetry of Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wordsworth, Keats, James Fenimore Cooper, and others as lyrics. Notable as much for musical content as for the long essay by Ives at the rear regarding his typically involved conceptual intentions for this particular gathering of compositions. An eccentric publication by one of our greatest and certainly most eccentric twentieth century composers.
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50 Songs (First Edition)

50 Songs (First Edition)

by Charles Ives

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Redding, CT: C.E. Ives, 1922. First Edition. First Edition. A self-published volume of songs by Charles Ives, selected from a volume published earlier the same year, titled "114 Songs." Like "114 Songs," this was printed for distribution among the composer's friends, and judging from the small number of copies in world libraries (OCLC locates 12 libraries with copies, whereas 106 are listed with copies of "114 Songs"), it must surely have had a much smaller printing. A selection of "folk songs" by Ives, many dedicated to the work of literary greats of the generation that preceded him (Shelley, Wordsworth, Goethe, Longfellow). Characteristically, simple melody lines are played against a complex and sometimes argumentative accompaniment. Very Good in tan paper-covered boards, with a brown quarter-binding, moderately worn at the corners, brief spotting on the front board, and a touch of wear to the paper spine label, firm and clean overall. Contemporary owner name in fountain pen at the top right… Read More
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Autograph Note from Adele Franz [Longmire] signed to Daniel Selznick, 1969
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Autograph Note from Adele Franz [Longmire] signed to Daniel Selznick, 1969

by Adele Franz [Longmire] (composer); Daniel Selznick (producer);

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1969. Autograph note signed from composer Adele Franz to producer Daniel Selznick. The note, executed on Franz's stationery, noting that she is delivering herewith the LP soundtrack recording for an obscure play titled, "Long Time Between Loves," along with a script for same. Included is a photostat of Selznick's detailed response, in which he mentions his favorite songs on the record, noting that it has "the primitive charm of French cabaret music." Adele Franz worked most notably as an actress under the name Adele Longmire, and is best known for her roles in "Battle Circus" (1953) and the film noir, "The Turning Point" (1952). Daniel Selznick, the son of David O. Selznick, is best known as a producer for films such as Peter Bogdanovich's "Targets" (1968) and various documentaries about Hollywood. His association with his father allowed him many opportunities to meet and correspond with numerous actors, actresses, and directors of note. Note: 5 x 4 inches. Bonded stationery stock, Near Fine.… Read More
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Bachelor in Paradise (Original photograph of Henry Mancini from the 1961 film)
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Bachelor in Paradise (Original photograph of Henry Mancini from the 1961 film)

by Jack Arnold (director); Valentine Davies, Hal Kanter (screenwriters); Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton (starring)

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N.p.: N.p., 1961. Vintage publicity photograph of composer Henry Mancini from the 1961 film. With cropping annotations in ink and pencil on the verso, along with Mancini's stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A bestselling paperback author who has recently moved into a small development in the California suburbs becomes the de facto relationship expert for the housewives in the community, to the displeasure of their husbands. In addition to the theme for "Bachelor in Paradise," prolific composer, conductor, and pianist Mancini wrote the themes and soundtracks for hundreds of films throughout the late twentieth century, most notably including themes for The Pink Panther film series, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961), and "Victor/Victoria" (1982). He was nominated for 18 Academy Awards throughout his career, winning four. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Cage, Cunningham, Johns: Dancers on a Plane (First Edition)

Cage, Cunningham, Johns: Dancers on a Plane (First Edition)

by [John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns] Susan Sontag (contributor)

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London: Anthony D'Offay Gallery, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the work of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Jasper Johns which ran from October 31 to December 2, 1989 at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, and from January 23 to March 25, 1990 at the Tate Gallery. Near Fine in wrappers.
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Der Titan von Tanger (Original vernacular photograph of Paul Bowles from the 1994 television...
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Der Titan von Tanger (Original vernacular photograph of Paul Bowles from the 1994 television documentary)

by Paul Bowles (subject); Sebastian Hirt (director)

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N.p.: ARTE, 1994. Vintage borderless vernacular color photograph from the 1994 television documentary, showing writer and composer Paul Bowles sitting on a chair on an airplane tarmac, having evidently refused to board a plane. Printed mimeo label affixed to the verso, dated 7.3.1994. Born in New York, Bowles began traveling between Paris, Berlin, Morocco, and New York at a young age, befriending a number of prominent artists and writers in the process, including Christopher Isherwood, Tristan Tzara, and Gertrude Stein, who encouraged Bowles to write his first musical compositions. Using the advance on a contract from Doubleday, Bowles moved to Tangier in 1947, where he would write his first novel, "The Sheltering Sky," largely based on his experiences in the Algerian desert. He would remain in Tangier for the remainder of his life, publishing three more novels, a substantial amount of short fiction, and numerous musical compositions, as well as working as a translator of works in Moroccan Arabic,… Read More
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I Dream of Jeanie (Original photograph from the 1952 film)

I Dream of Jeanie (Original photograph from the 1952 film)

by Allan Dwan (director); Alan LeMay (screenwriter); Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy (starring)

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Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1952. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1952 film. Production number rubber-stamped and in ink on the verso. A biographical musical about American composer Stephen Foster. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.
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It's a Howdy Doody World song manuscript and typed letter signed by composer Edward Kean, circa 1949
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It's a Howdy Doody World" song manuscript and typed letter signed by composer Edward Kean, circa 1949

by Edward Kean (composer); Bob Smith (starring)

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New York: Children's Songs, 1949. Original manuscript and typescript for "The Howdy Doody Show" theme song "It's a Howdy Doody World," created by and belonging to the song's composer Edward Kean, INSCRIBED by Kean in the margin: "From Edward Kean / to / the very special Scott Petersen man!," and further annotated by Kean in manuscript ink. The listing also includes a typed letter signed from Kean to the manuscript's recipient, in which he writes that of the 51 songs in his collection that he wrote for the show ("most while taking showers"), only a dozen or so were manuscript originals as opposed to photostat reproductions, with "It's a Howdy Doody World" being one of the few that he "really liked." Also included is a modern photocopy of a 1953 biography of Kean written for NBC that states "he hopes to see his name in lights on Broadway," to which Kean has affixed a manuscript note reading "TACO BELL made it, but I didn't," plus a couple of other typescript and manuscript marginalia from the… Read More
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John Cage (First Edition, inscribed to Ellsworth Snyder in 1971)

John Cage (First Edition, inscribed to Ellsworth Snyder in 1971)

by [John Cage] Richard Kostelanetz

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New York: Praeger, 1970. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cage in 1971 to Ellsworth Snyder: "for Ellsworth Snyder, / with admiration and friendship / John Cage, Madison '71." Ellsworth Snyder and Cage were longtime friends. Snyder performed the composer's work on many occasions, perhaps most infamously at Cage's much-protested 1965 appearance at the University of Illinois: "At one point [Snyder] crawled under the piano, made a show of carefully marking a precise point on the under-body of the instrument with a tape measure, then hit that spot with a mallet. Even more provocative for that particular audience, he had planted a loose piano string in the instrument, and after striking an unusually percussive chord he slowly pulled the ostensibly broken string out of the piano. By this time the audience was screaming and throwing objects at the stage." (Johanne Rivest, "In Advance of the Avant Garde: John Cage at the University of Illinois, 1952-69," 1999). Snyder contributes an essay to… Read More
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The Music Lovers (Original maquette from the 1970 film)

The Music Lovers (Original maquette from the 1970 film)

by Ken Russell (director); Barbara von Meck, Catherine Drinker Bowen (book); Melvyn Bragg (screenwriter); Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson (starring)

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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1970. Original photographic mock-up from the 1970 film, showing actor Richard Chamberlain in character, with the background retouched in gray paint, matted and mounted on illustration board. With annotations to the mat and board in manuscript ink and pencil. Based on the 1937 collection of personal correspondence between Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his patron Nadezha von Meck, edited by her granddaughter Barbara von Meck and Catherine Drinker Bowen. Director Ken Russell's dramatic and visually stunning depiction of composer Tchaikovsky's turbulent life. Presented largely in flashbacks, nightmares, and fantasy sequences, the film illustrates the true stories of his nymphomaniac wife, his homosexual feelings for Count Anton Chiluvsky, and his unusual relationship with his widowed patron, to whom he never spoke. Shot on location in Somerset, England. Photograph 8 x 10 inches, board 10 x 15 inches. Generally Very Good plus, lightly age-toned, with faint soil to… Read More
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Original photograph of Karlheinz Stockhausen

Original photograph of Karlheinz Stockhausen

by Karlheinz Stockhausen (subject)

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N.p.: N.p., 1950. Vintage borderless photograph of composer and electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhauser, circa the 1950s. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso. 12 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine.
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Original photograph of Michel Legrand, circa 1960s

Original photograph of Michel Legrand, circa 1960s

by Michel Legrand (subject)

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N.p.: N.p., 1960. Vintage borderless press photograph of composer Michel Legrand, circa early 1960s. The photograph, which shows Legrand exiting a gate with a suitcase in hand, is somewhat prescient, as the first half of the 1960s would see him leap to international renown, both as a popular musician and a composer of the film scores for such French New Wave classics as "Cleo from 5 to 7," "Band of Outsiders," and, of course, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," for which he would receive the first of his 13 Academy Award nominations. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine.
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Original photograph of Henry Mancini at home, 1969

Original photograph of Henry Mancini at home, 1969

by Henry Mancini (subject)

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N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage photograph of composer Henry Mancini at home in 1969, flanked by his personal library and Grammy Awards. Prolific composer, conductor, and pianist Mancini wrote the themes and soundtracks for hundreds of films throughout the late twentieth century, most notably including themes for The Pink Panther film series, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961), and "Victor/Victoria" (1982). He was nominated for 18 Academy Awards throughout his career, winning four, and was nominated for 72 Grammy Awards, winning 20. 5 x 7 inches. About Fine.
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Original photograph of Elmer Bernstein recording the soundtrack to The Man with the Golden Arm, circa 1956

by Elmer Bernstein (subject)

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N.p.: N.p., 1956. Vintage photograph of composer Elmer Bernstein conducting an orchestra in rehearsal for the soundtrack to Otto Preminger's "The Man with the Golden Arm," circa 1956. With two stamps for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Bernstein worked as a composer for film and television throughout the mid-to-late twentieth century, composing and conducting soundtracks for this film, as well as "The Ten Commandments" and , "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), "The Great Escape" (1963), "True Grit" (1969), "Ghostbusters" (1984), and many others. 8.25 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Original photograph of Arthur Honegger filling his pipe, circa 1940s
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Original photograph of Arthur Honegger filling his pipe, circa 1940s

by Arthur Honegger (subject)

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N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage borderless photograph of French-Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, filling his pipe with tobacco in front of his extensive, mounted pipe collection, circa 1940s. With the stamp of Omnium-Presse on the verso, along with a stamp noting the letter P, and cropping annotations in pencil. Honegger was best known as a member of Les Six, an alliance of six French composers in Montparnasse who declared opposition to contemporary classical styles, particularly the work of Richard Wagner and impressionist music popularized by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. 6.75 x 9 inches. Very Good plus overall.
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Original photograph of composer Burt Bacharach in the recording studio, circa 1970s
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Original photograph of composer Burt Bacharach in the recording studio, circa 1970s

by Burt Bacharach (subject)

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N.p.: N.p., 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of musician Burt Bacharach playing the piano and singing in a recording studio, circa 1970s. With a Columbia-Warner copyright stamp on the verso. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine.
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Original photograph of Henry Mancini, circa 1963

Original photograph of Henry Mancini, circa 1963

by Henry Mancini (subject)

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N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage photograph of composer Henry Mancini leaning out of a car window, holding a compilation of his greatest hits on 8-track tape. Printed mimeo snipe in French affixed to the verso. Prolific composer, conductor, and pianist Mancini wrote the themes and soundtracks for hundreds of films throughout the late twentieth century, most notably including themes for The Pink Panther film series, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961), and "Victor/Victoria" (1982). He was nominated for 18 Academy Awards throughout his career, winning four, and was nominated for 72 Grammy Awards, winning 20. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly age toned.
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Original photograph of composer Joseph Kosma, circa 1960s
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Original photograph of composer Joseph Kosma, circa 1960s

by Joseph Kosma [Jozsef Kozma] (subject); Edward Quinn (photographer)

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Paris: Marie-France, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of Hungarian-French composer Joseph Kosma at the piano, circa 1960s. With the stamps of Marie-France archives and photographer Edward Quinn on the verso. Kosma was primarily known as a composer for film, despite his education at the Budapest Conservatory in Hungary. He was introduced to director Jean Renoir by writing partner Jacques Prevert in the 1930s, and would go on to work with Renoir as well as a number of prominent French directors in the ensuing decades, most notably including Marcel Carne. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine.
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Original photograph of Juliette Greco and Michel Legrand, circa 1958
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Original photograph of Juliette Greco and Michel Legrand, circa 1958

by Juliette Greco, Michel Legrand (subjects); Guy Le Page (photographer)

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N.p.: N.p., 1958. Vintage borderless photograph of composer Michel Legrand and chanteuse Juliette Greco, circa 1958. Stamp of photographer Guy Le Page on the verso. Greco and Legrand collaborated on several releases in the 1950s and 1960s, most notably Greco's self-titled album produced by Columbia in 1960. 7.25 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine.
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Original Program for a performance of three pieces by the Orchestra of St. Lukes

Original Program for a performance of three pieces by the Orchestra of St. Lukes

by [Orchestra of St. Luke's] Glenn Branca, John Cale (composers); David Byrne (composer, performer); New York Voices (performers)

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New York: Arts at St. Anna's, 1991. Original program for a performance by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by David Alan Miller, held at The Town Hall in New York City on June 8 and 9, 1981. The performance featured four pieces: "Freeform" and "Shivering Air," composed by Glenn Branca, "Sanctus," composed by John Cale, and "The Forest," composed by David Byrne, who also performed this piece at the concert, support by the orchestra and the group New York Voices. With brief notes by each composer regarding their pieces. From the collection of Glenn Branca. 7 x 9.75 inches. Ten pages, saddle stapled in self wrappers. Near Fine.
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