[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed copy of Merle Armitage's homage volume to George Gershwin

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Armitage, Merle (ed.). GEORGE GERSHWIN. With Articles by Paul Whiteman, Walter Damrosch, Arnold Schoenberg, Harold Arlen, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin [and 30 others]. New York: Longmans Green & Co. 1938. Lg. 4to. (10),252,(2)pp. Including 16 plates of Gershwin's drawings and paintings. Double-page title printed in red & black,  illustrated by Siquerios. Caricature of Gershwin by Covarrubias on the half-title. This is copy No. 91 of a special edition (limitation not stated), signed & numbered on the colophon by Merle Armitage. Additionally inscribed & initialed by Armitage at the end of the preface, "For Isabelle who understands the meaning of this man." Original yellow & black cloth, lower corner of front cover a bit bumped. Acetate dust wrapper.    $275.00 (trade discount allowed)

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