[Rarebooks] For Sale: California sheet music

[Norman Kane]

We offer:
ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTER AS SUNG BY BEN COTTON . . .  San Francisco:
M. Gray; &c, n.d., [1862/'63].  Attributed to Septimus Winner; arranged by
F. H. H. Oldfield.  3 pages + 1 page of advts.  Cover lithograph of 
Cotton as a black Union recruit,after a photograph by Bryan & 
Johnston.  Spine reinforced; some moderate marginal soiling.  Cotton, 
a minstrel, is reported to have "spoken proudly about mingling with 
blacks on Mississippi riverboats & performing music with them," which 
set him apart from other minstrels.
OCLC locates only the U.C.Berkeley copy.  $195.00

"AGGIE ASTHORE" . . . DEDICATED TO THE LADIES OF SAN FRANCISCO
BY BEN COTTON. ARRANGED BY GEORGE T. EVANS.   San Francisco:
M. Gray,  1862.  Spine reinforced,3 pages + 1 page of advts.  OCLC 
locates only the U. Cal. Berkeley copy.   $150.00

THE UNION RIGHT OR WRONG . . . SONG AND DANCE AS ORIGINALLY PERFORMED 
BY BEN COTTON . . . ARRANGED BY GEORGE T. EVANS.
San Francisco: M. Clay, cop. 1862.  Spine reinforced, 3 pages + 1 
page of advts.  (Black dialect.)  OCLC locates only the S. F. Public 
Library copy.
$150.

COAL OIL TOMMY.  WORDS BY JOHN BROUGHAM,  AS SUNG IN HIS
DRAMA THE LOTTERY OF LIFE AS PRODUCED IN SAN FRANCISCO BY
CHAS. WHEATLEIGH.   San Francisco: Gray's Music Store, n.d.,[1867-'68].
Vignette on title page of an oil well and refinery.  ("I've come from
Pennsylvania some city life to see . . .")  Spine reinforced, 3 pages.  OCLC
locates copies at the S.F.Public Library & Reed College.  (Brougham was a
leading American actor/playwright.)   $150.00


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