Benny Mark (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. F/none, used VINTAGE SHEET MUSIC 3 pages of music. Cover has green and cream colored text on upper with art deco illustration; edge wear with tears, scuffing and folds. Includes music and lyrics which are quite usable and readable. Cover fold is almost torn in two. 12"x9".

sheet_music. Condition: Good. Harry Waiman cover photo; spine repaired with clear tape; writing in music.

sheet_music. Condition: Good. Irving Berlin, Incorporated Pages tanned but clean.

Sydney Leff (illustrator). Original large-format sheet music edition featuring a striking Jazz Age cover illustration by noted commercial artist Sydney Leff (1901-2005), one of the most prolific and influential American sheet-music illustrators of the 1920s. Printed in bold blue, gray, and orange tones, the cover depicts a melancholy fireside interior scene with inset publicity photograph of vaudeville performers Lewis and Smith. This issue also includes a ukulele arrangement by May Singhi Breen ('The Queen of the Ukulele'), reflecting the immense popularity of fretted-instrument accompaniment during the height of the 1920s ukulele craze. Rear cover advertises the Irving Berlin title Yearning (Just for You) by Benny Davis and Joe Burke. Condition: Very Good. Light age toning and moderate handling wear consistent with use and age. Mild edge wear, several tiny edge tears, and small corner creases; no major losses or detached leaves. Interior music pages remain clean and fully legible with strong paper integrity and no substantial staining or notation. Cover colors remain bright and attractive, especially uncommon for a 1924 popular-music issue printed on inexpensive stock. Presumed first edition / early commercial printing, 1924. Copyright statement on interior music page reads 'MCMXXIV by Irving Berlin, Inc., 1607 B'way, N.Y.' Original Irving Berlin imprint, period advertising, and the contemporary May Singhi Breen ukulele arrangement are all consistent with a first-year commercial issue intended for home performance and phonograph-era sales. Sydney Leff became one of the defining visual stylists of Tin Pan Alley publishing during the Jazz Age, producing hundreds of highly recognizable covers characterized by elegant elongated figures, theatrical interiors, and bold flat-color lithographic design. His work for Irving Berlin and related New York publishers remains especially sought after by collectors of American commercial illustration and music ephemera. Benny Davis, Joe Burke, and Mark Fisher were major contributors to interwar American popular music. Joe Burke later composed enduring standards including Rambling Rose and Moon Over Miami, while Irving Berlin's publishing house represented one of the dominant forces in Tin Pan Alley music production during the 1920s.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 252 pp. 18 papers with references - citations, etc. by contributors at the Second SIS Cambridge Conference. 11-13 July 1997. Notes on 18 contributors. 8.25" x 11.5" red wraps. Binding tight, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved. Edges of wraps with minor wear, else Fine. Size: Large Quarto. Book.

Sheet Music. Condition: Good. 4pp sheet music booklet with cover photograph of Benny Hill, 1963. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - covers a little creased and soiled with previous owner's stamp to front cover and p.3. Internally clean. No annotations or inscriptions; text and music bright and clear throughout. Arranged for voice and piano with lyrics and tonic sol-fa notation. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 6 pages. Nice color cover illustration plus photo of 'international singing star' Gerald Griffin. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Savage, Edward (illustrator). First Edition. A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Frontispiece engraving by Edward Savage entitled 'Liberty and the American Eagle'; Milestones; Trends in Collecting; The Integrity of the Antique; What Would I Save in Case of Fire?; Is There an American Design?; Craftsmen at War; Decorating with Antiques; John Janvier - Delaware Cabinetmaker; An Antique Dealer's Yesterdays; The Ornamentation of Silver - A Pictorial Demonstration; William Mount - Long Island Genre Artist; A Rare Engraving by Kensett Identified; Antiques in Domestic Settings - 'Shandy Hall' in the Western Reserve; The Springfield Rifle of the Civil War; Firing Glasses - American (?); and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. 96 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 252.