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Playbill for the Wigwam Theatre. San Francisco: April 1,  1889. 12-1/4" x 5-1/2", black print on brown paper. A little chipped at top and bottom, smallnick on left side, else fine.
Advertising "Engagement Extraordinary of the Donaldson Bros. ... Les Hommes Elastique!", "First Appearance of the Pleasant Entertainers Lang's Comiques! Edwin R. Lang and Viola Rosa" and many more. On the verso is printed the words to what was evidently a well-know song of the times "Marguerite". The Wigwam Theatre was one of the San Francisco theatres. $35.00  rh id: 5752

[ADVERTISEMENT]. Four trade cards advertising pianos, organs and piano tuning. Boston, Washington, Bridgeport: Various, c. 1880 - 1930. Illustrated. Approximately 5 x 3 inches, full colour, and two toned. Very light rubbing at two corners of one card, else fine.
"Tuning Department, Institution for the Blind" in South Boston -Pianos carefully tuned by Experienced Workmen ..." "Beatty's Organs, Beatty's Pianos" are advertised by a little girl in Victorian dress on the front and images of the factory and a square piano and organ on the back from Washington, New Jersey.
"Haines Bros. Piano" established 1851 advertise themselves by a little girl holding an umbrella and a little boy sucking a sweet she is holding, both barefoot ...
"Bridgeport Organ Co." has a charming Victorian young girl handing a flower to a smaller gilt sitting on abench, surrounded by a decorative border in gilt; on the verso is an image of an organ from the Bridgeport Organ Co..                       $25.00
rh id: 31382

[ADVERTISEMENT]. The Edison Phonograph. The Acme of Realism. Orange, N. J: The National Phonograph Company, 1901. Chromolithograph in colours. Approximately 3-1/2 x 6 inches, front side in full colours, verso in blue lettering. One small abrasion on front affecting text slightly, two brownish (faint) stains, else fine.
The image shows a little boy sitting by a phonograph with an axe raised in one hand. The caption at the bottom is "Looking for the Band". The verso states "Music for all tastes . The Edison Phonograph is a popular musical instrument, but it is equally available for those who want classical music. The large list of Edison Moulded Records contains hundreds of the best musical compositions ever written ...." Stamped on verso "O. A. Clarke / Rockville, R.I./ Phonographs & Records".                 $40.00
rh id:  31390

[BEATLES]. TURNER, J. Lancelot.  Turn Me On Dead Man. An Examinatior of the clues Surrounding the Rumoured Death of Paul McCartney. U. S. A.: Stone Garden Press. September, 1969.   21pp. Octavo, original cream pictorial wrappers lettered and illustrated in black and grays. Very lightly dust soiled, else fine. First edition. Rare.
'This pamphlet is designed to give the interested reader a chance to examine the facts surrounding the rumoured death of Paul McCartney.
It does not intend to prove validity of the circumstances ... but, mrerely to present a concise view of the mysterious clues discovered in the Beatle productions since "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band." -from the introduction.                 $250.00
rh id: 32589

D'ALEMBERT, M. Élémens de Musique Theorique et Pratique suivant les Principes de M. Rameau, éclaircis, développs et simplifiés, .... Lyon: Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, 1766. iv, xxxvi, 1-236, iv. Illustrated with ten fold out plates, chapter heads and tails. Octavo, contemporary brown calf, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Spine and corners a little rubbed (gilt bright), else fine. Second edition corrected and enlarged, complete with half title(first edition was in 1752).                              $375.00
rh id: 32103

EDWARDS, [Gus] and COBB, [Will D.].  If A Girl Like You Could Love A Boy LIke Me. New York: Gus Edwards Music Pub. Co, 1905. Sheet music. 6 pp (with covers) . Folio, offwhite paper pictorially stamped and lettered in green reds, and brown. Very slight damp stain at top, else fine.
"Sung with great success by Lillian Russell" .            $10.00
rh id: 32123

HAKWINS, John. A General History of the Science and Practice of Music. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son, at the Mews-Gate, 1766. Five volumes, complete, including an index and appendix. Profusely illustrated with full page plates, full page music notations and in text illustrations. Quarto, early 20th century three quarter brown morocco over brown cloth, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Spines a little faded, a few leaves with very slight browning, else fine. First edition. With a handwritten slip from Queen Square, Westminster, dated 29th Feb. 1766, to Mr. Nicholls, thanking him for "his curious appendix to Mr. Mores's dissertation" and "takes this opportunity of assuring him that the name Fortier page 98 is right and not mistaken for Fournier" .
Sir John Hawkins (1719 – 1789) was an English author and friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole. He was part of Johnson's various clubs but later left The Literary Club after a disagreement with some of Johnson's other friends. His friendship with Johnson continued and he was made one of the executors of Johnson's will. He married the heiress Sidney Storer and was the father of the novelist Laetitia Hawkins.
During his life, he wrote many works, including A General History of the Science and Practice of Music and his Life of Samuel Johnson in memory of his friend. He was appointed as a magistrate and later became Chairman of the Quarter Session for Middlesex. He was knighted in 1772 for his services.
It took Hawkins 16 years to write A General History of the Science and Practice of Music which was published in 1776. Although this publication was somewhat respected, it soon was overshadowed, with the help of the likes such as Dr Callcott who composed a mockery song against Hawkins, by Charles Burney's General History of Music (1776–89). However, in years to come Hawkins's music history was considered to be superior to Burney's music history (compare the 1875 edition of Hawkins's work). Particularly, Burney's discourse on Handel and Bach was viewed as being inadequate. - wikipedia.                        $2,000.00
rh id: 32104

LLOYD, J. William. Songs of the Desert. N.p: The Berryhill Co., 1911. Tall 12mo, original brown wrappers decorated in red, lettered in black. With some repairs in wrapper fold, else fine. This edition is a reprint of a publication the author's father had produced in Westfield, New Jersey.
"In the summer of 1903 ... I went to the Indian reservation Sacaton, Arizona, to gather those mystic and legendary tales which are elsewhere written under the caption "Arizona Indian Nights.  .. I dwelt among these simple, kindly, and hospitable people; in their fierce, terrible, beautiful land of cactus and mesquite, heat and thirst; eating their food, sleeping on their house-tops, riding their ponies, listening to their weird tales and weirder pipes ..." from the authours "To tell you".                                                  $50.00
rh id: 31387

MALCOLM, Alexander (1685 - 1763). A Treatise of Musick, Speculative, Practical and Historical. Containing an Explication of the Philosophical and Rational Grounds and Principles thereof; The Nature and Office of the Scale of Musick; The whole Art of Writing Notes; And the General Rules of Composition. ..... London: Printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1730. Illustrated with six fold out plates, chapter heads and tails. Octavo, contemporary brown calf tooled in blind, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges stained brown. Spine ends and joints worn, else fine. With occasional old notations, pp. 586-607 with considerable marginalia. This is actually the Edinburgh 1721 first edition with a new title page and a cancel at b4. With the "Ode on the Power of Musick, Inscrib'd to Mr. Malcolm ... by Mr. Mitchell".
"I have no secret history to entertain my reader with, or rather to be impertient with, concerning the occasion of my studyig, writing, or publishing any thing upon this subject [music] ... if there be a fault, it lies somewhere else; for, to be plain, I have taken allt he pains I could. ... Of the original and various significations of the word "Musick," you'll have an account in the beginning of  chap.14.  ..." -from the Introduction.                      $800.00
rh id: 32102

MONACO, Jimmie V. I'll Sit Right On the Moon and Keep My Eyes on You. New York: Harry von Tilzer Music Pub. Co, 1912. Sheet music. 6 pp (with covers) . Folio, blue paper pictorially stamped and lettered in red, white and black. Fine. $10.00
rh id: 32127

[MUSIC]. .LEWIS, A.L.  All American Girl.  Collegiate Fox Trot Song with Eight Extra Choruses. New York: Leo Feist, (1932). Quarto, 8 pp., pictorial paper wrappers. Fine.
Front cover lithographed in color depicting a football player being idolized by a pretty flapper. This edition contains eight  additional choruses including ones for New York City, Pacific Coast, Western Conference, Southern,  Fashion, and even the League of Nations!.        $10.00
>  rh id: 2635

PARISH, Mitchell and ANDERSON, Leroy.  The Syncopated Clock. New York: Mills Music, Inc, 1946. Sheet music. 6 pp (with covers) . Folio, offwhite paper pictorially stamped and lettered in pink and blues. Slight rubbing, else fine.                                $10.00
rh id: 32137

PARISH, Mitchell and CARMICHAEL, Hoagy.  Star Dust. New York: Mills Music, Inc, 1929. Sheet music. 6 pp (with covers) . Folio, offwhite paper pictorially stamped and lettered in blues. Slightly rubbed and dust soiled, else fine.                            $10.00
rh id: 32135

REILLE, Karl Baron. La Vénerie Française Contemporaine. Paris: Adolph de Goupy, 1914. Profusely illustrated with in text drawings and music scores, frontispiece and numerous full page plates in colour. Half folio, original green cloth lettered in gilt, front cover with padded design of deer head with antlers in brown and cream, gilt medallion of fox at top, lettered in gilt on spine . Minor silverfishing to green cloth, else a fine copy. One of 600 copies, "No. ASH for Mr. H. Sinney" below which is a charming original small watercolour signed by Reille.
La Vénerie Française Contemporaine is a  famous and important book of the twentieth century about hunting in France. It gives a comprehensive overview of the French Hunts, which were then at their peak. The text is filled with anecdotes and, often amusing, comments. The individuals portrayed are identified by handwritten notes that the author had left in his own copy (not present here).
Baron Karl Reille (1886 - 1975) was the great grandson of Honore Reille, Marshal of France, who had married the daughter of [Andre] Massena [the great Marshall under Napoleon, and perhaps the only possible rival to him]. Karl Reille had a happy childhood, divided between Paris and the Chateau de Baudry in Touraine, in the period preceding World War I. Reillee had shown at an early age a talent for art and design and his uncle Peter Verteville was his guide in developing these talents. They worked in an artistic affinity and often treated the same subject  identically.  In 1906 they produced jointly a series of portraits and caricatures of actors The Vénérie Montpoupon.
A passion for hunting with hounds ultimately determined where the talent of Karl Reille should be directed and bore fruit in the publishing in 1914 of Vénérie Francaise Contemporaine. This important work  presents all the hunts existing in France at the time, with each hunt illustrated by the author, and also its hunting song musically notated.
Throughout his prolific career, Reille illustrated many books written by other  authors about hunting. He also looked closely at the world of horses and horse racing which were his constant inspiration.
Mobilized in 1914, he was taken prisoner early in the war. He spent four years in captivity at Plassenburg Ingolstadt in Bavaria. After the war, in 1922, Karl Reille created in association with the Baron de Lauriston, Rally Gaiment,  a hunt for deer.  In April 1924, Karl Reille married Odette Goury of Roslan, and they had six children.
In 1939 he enlisted again at the outbreak of war, and was again taken prisoner by the Germans. Released in 1941, he returned to Baudry and became mayor of his town, Cerelles, at the end of the war. After the armistice, he was vice-president of the Society Vénérie. Having previously painted in watercolour and gouache,  Reille worked in oil from 1960 on. He was struck by disease in 1973, and  died in 1975.                                      $4,000.00
rh id: 28069

ROSSINI, Gioacchino and [BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre-Augustin].  Il Barbieri di Seviglia. The Barber of Seville. A Comic Opera. London: Published and sold at Her Majesty's Theatre, [printed by] W.S. Johnson "Nassau Steam Press", Soho, 1843. 12mo, bound in half red morocco, lettered in gilt on spine, over red cloth, marbled endpapers. Spine extremities a little rubbed, else fine.
The libretto for the opera with text on the left page in Italian and on the right in English. The opera was performed at the Haymarket Theatre in April, 1843.
Rossini (1792-1868) occupied an unrivalled position in the Italian musical world of his time, winning considerable success relatively early in his career. The son of a horn-player and a mother who made a career for herself in opera, as a boy he had direct experience of operatic performance, both in the orchestra pit and on stage. His operas from his first relative success in 1810 until 1823 were first performed in Italy. There followed a period of success in Paris, leading to his final opera, Guillaume Tell, staged in Paris in 1829. The revolution of 1830 prevented the fulfilment of French royal commissions for the theatre, but in his later life he continued to enjoy considerable esteem, both in Paris, where he spent much of his last years, and in his native Italy. There he spent the years from 1837 until 1855, before returning finally to France, where he died in 1868.
Of Rossini's three dozen or so operas, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is probably the best known, a treatment of the first play of the Figaro trilogy by Beaumarchais on which Mozart had drawn thirty years before in Vienna.                             $100.00
>  rh id: 23384

[SHEET MUSIC]. .CAESAR, Irving, LERNER, Sammy and MARKS, Gerald.  Is It True What They Say About Dixie?. New York: Irving Caesar Inc, (1936). Folio, original brown wrappers, stamped and lettered in white. Slight rubbing, else fine.                                   $10.00
rh id: 33042

SOUSA, John Philip. The Fifth String. Indianapolis: The Bobbs - Merrill Company, (1907). Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy in colour. Octavo, original ribbed lavender cloth, lettered in gilt,  oval colour paper illustration pasted to front cover, decorated in blind. Fine, a beautiful copy. Second printing.                                    $20.00
rh id: 31885

[STONE, John A.]. Put's Golden Songster Containing the Largest and Most Popular Collection of California Songs Ever Published. San Francisco: D. E. Appleton, (1858). Illustrated. 16mo, original tan wrappers, pictorially stamped and lettered in black. Fine. First edition. Rare in this fine condition.
"Induced by the indulgence and favor you have extended to my previous "Local Songster" ... Originally commence to relieve the tedium of a lonely cabin life ... I have endeavoured to portray, as graphically as possible, LIFE IN CALIFORNIA, at a time when the restraints of society had to some extent become released; and I can only imagine -from the success which has attended my humble efforts- that I have "held the mirror up to Nature:" ... from the preface.
The last two pages list names of "Mining Localities Peculiar to California" such as Hell's Delight, Miller's Defeat, Ground Hog's Glory, Ladies' Valley and Gridiron Bar amongst others.
"Much of the flavor, pathos and humor of the Gold Days" -Wheat. Includes: California Ball, Miner's Meeting, California Bank Robbers, Hangtown Gals, I Often Think of Writing Home, On Board the Steamer, Sweet Betsey, Happy Miner, and many others plust a list of mining localities peculiar to California including Gouge Eye, Guano Hill, Mad Canon, Quack Hill, Swellhead Diggings, etc.. [Greenwood 983. Wheat 162.  Not in Graff].                             $150.00
rh id: 31346

[THEATER POSTER]. The Yeomen of the Guards. Nottingham: Stafford & Co., Netherfield, c. 1910. Illustrated in colours. Approximately 29.5 x 19.5 inches image area , glassed and framed in ornate wooden frame, overall size 34 x 24 inches. Fine.
Yeomen of the Guards is one of the well known comic operas by Gilbert & Sullivan, and this poster was, presumably, printed for an opening of the opera. This was first performed in 1888 at the Savoy Theatre in London.                     $300.00
rh id: 27282

[TRADE CATALOGUE: TOBACCO]. Song Birds of the World. Richmond, Virginia: Allen & Ginter, n.d.   10 pp. Illustrated with ten full page full colour chromolithographs of birds. Oblong octavo, original pictorial coloured wrappers, Silk cord tie. Horizontal crease on front wrapper, else fine.
The ten plates are of beautiful song birds with a verse from a famous poet. The Allen & Ginter company were manufacturers of cigarettes and advertised: Richmond Straight Cut No. 1, Virginia Brights, Opera Puffs, Richmond Gem, Dubec, Napoleon, Dixie, Dainties and Egyptians.
The illustrations are of the highest quality and the birds are drawn exquisitely.          $150.00           rh id: 26145

VESTAL, Stanley. Fandango. Ballads of the Old West. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1927. Octavo, black cloth spine lettered in gilt, patterned red and gilt boards. Edges a bit rubbed, spine a tad faded, else fine. First edition of the author's first book.                        $45.00
rh id: 25206

WAGNER, Richard. Lohengrin. Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, (1906). Three volumes, complete. Illustrated. Octavo, three-quarter brown morocco over red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spines faded, spines and corners with some wear, ineriors fine. First edition.                  $50.00
rh id: 32105

WARREN, Henry, Music and DUBIN, Al, Lyrics.  She's a Latin from Manhattan. New York: M. Witmark & Sons, (1935). Folio, coriginal oloured pictorial wrappers. Slight rubbing, else fine.
Music from the movie "Go Into Your Dance" with Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler directed by Archie L. Mayo.                      $10.00
rh id: 33043

YOUNG, Filson. The Wagner Stories. London: Grant Richards Ltd, (1912). Illustrated. Quarto, in custom binding of full dark blue smooth calf, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, brown morocco gilt lettered spine label, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Spine a bit faded (gilt bright) slight rubbing of edges, else fine. Early edition. Custom bound for the Bramcote School in Scarboroguh, a public (private) school in England, and given as a prize. The author was a professor at the University of California.
Contains the stories of Wagner's operas, including the three stories in the Niebelungen Ring. Also explains various songs and arias.                   $15.00
rh id: 32944

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