[Rarebooks] FS: Collection of Irving Berlin Sheet Music INSCRIBED to Columnist Earl Wilson

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog:

BERLIN, Irving. SIGNED COLLECTION OF SHEET MUSIC. Thick quarto (8-7/8" x 
11-3/4" x 3" thick) in a plastic-enclosed black pebbled leather 3-hole 
binder containing 194 vintage pieces of sheet music by Irving Berlin, 
likely all reprints, specially compiled and arranged alphabetically with 
a special contents page bound at the front. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the 
composer on the front endpaper: "For Rosemary and Earl Wilson/with love 
from/Irving Berlin -- 1981." A privately compiled effort exclusively 
produced and supervised by Irving Berlin during his twilight years, 
likely only for his closest friends. We are not aware of the existence 
of another copy. Earl Wilson was one of the best known gossip columnists 
of his day and an authority on Broadway and show business. He often 
interviewed Berlin, including the well-known interview in December 1953 
about HOLIDAY INN when Berlin told Wilson: "But the public liked 'White 
Christmas' and it became a runaway. You see, a war song doesn't have to 
be about wars. This is really a peace song." Wilson and Berlin were 
longtime friends maintaining a 35-year correspondence. Signed page a bit 
wrinkled not affecting Berlin's writing. Near Fine and possibly unique. 
(#019676)        $6,000.00

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