John Stasny (34 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Starmer Brothers ( Cover Art ) - William Henry and/or Frederick (illustrator). Lovely piece of original, large format sheet music. Some edgewear and stapled spine, otherwise a fine clean copy - piano and lyrics. According to Wikipedia" Anthony John Stastny was born on June 3, 1885, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Bohemian immigrant parents. Sometime after 1910, he modified the original Bohemian spelling of his surname from Stastny to Stasny. Music bearing the A.J. Stasny name appeared as early as 1908, and the firm was formally chartered as a New York corporation in 1922. He relocated to New York City in 1910, composed numerous popular songs and piano solo works, and also served as musical director for the magician Howard Thurston. By 1920, the company had grown into one of the largest music publishing firms in the country, with branch offices in 18 large cities including Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and London, employing over 200 people and grossing over a million dollars a year."James Royce Shannon, born James Royce on May 13, 1881, in Adrian, Michigan, was an Irish-American composer and lyricist who was nationally prominent during the Tin Pan Alley era. He is best known for writing the lyrics to "The Missouri Waltz," the state song of Missouri, and for composing "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral," the Irish Lullaby, which became famous decades later when Bing Crosby performed it in the film Going My Way. Shannon organized his own theatrical company, with which he toured the United States and Europe. He later managed a chain of music stores, served as assistant manager and director of weekly shows at Detroit's Majestic Theater, and worked as drama critic for the Detroit Free Press, also composing special material for vaudeville. He died on May 19, 1946. For Rose Dreams he supplied the pastoral lyric text, evoking dewdrops on roses, soft breezes, birdsong, and the fading light of evening, perfectly suited to the reverie mood of Stasny's melody. Again citing Wikipedia "The name "Starmer" on the Rose Dreams cover refers to brothers William Austin Starmer and Frederick Waite Starmer, noted sheet music cover artists born in Leeds, England. "Starmer" is a household name to collectors of sheet music and appears on innumerable covers from the early 1900s to the 1940s. William Austin Starmer lived from 1872 to 1955, and Frederick Waite Starmer from 1878 to 1962. By some accounts, the brothers were responsible for nearly a quarter of all signed covers published during that era. Their work was of consistently high quality, and they were producing nearly a quarter of all large-format covers from the late 1890s to around 1919. The identity of the artists was unknown for some time until an invoice was discovered from William A. Starmer to the Jerome Remick Music Company, with a printed heading describing him as artist and medical draughtsman. William arrived in North America in 1898, with Frederick following two years later, and the two brothers made frequent visits back to England until 1924, when they became naturalized American citizens. The cover art for Rose Dreams has been noted by collectors as particularly beautiful and suitable for framing, typical of the Starmers' romantic style"Together, the three collaborators ? Stastny, Shannon, and the Starmer brothers ? represent the full apparatus of the Tin Pan Alley sheet music world at its height: a composer-publisher driving the commercial enterprise, a versatile lyricist supplying the words, and master illustrators whose cover art made the piece something buyers wanted to display as much as to play.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 296 pages. Wraps are lightly scuffed. Spine is unbent and lightly yellowing. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. Binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 362 pages. Wraps are lightly scuffed, with trace of edgewear. Spine is lightly creased. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. Binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 280 pages. Wraps are lightly scuffed, with trace of edgewear and mild amount of fingersmudges. Spine is lightly creased. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. Binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 275 pages. Wraps are lightly scuffed with mild edgewear. Spine is unbent and lightly yellowing with light edgewear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. Binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 261 pages. Wraps are lightly scuffed, with the word 'extra' written in ink above title. Spine is unbent with light edgewear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. Binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. A critical journal of Victorian Literature. 185 pages. Wraps have light edgewear. Pages are clean & unmarked, binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Periodical.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Vol. 13, nos. 3-4. (English, poetry, Victorian era, criticism, interpretation) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover bound book in good condition with minor wear to the cover. Contents are in like new condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Library stamps on page block head, front pastedown, title page and original covers included at rear. Label residue on FEP and first contents page. Minor mark on second contents page. One or two pages are dog eared. Pen and marks on original covers. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Minor marks on page block, early and closing pages. Library stamps on page block head and original covers included at rear. Label residue on first contents page. Minor creases on leading corners of a few pages. Marks, scores and pen on original covers. Pencil marks and underlining on some pages. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is visible on a few pages but remains intact. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Page block and page 472 are marked. Library stamps and labels on page block head, front pastedown, FEP and original covers included at rear. FEP and some pages are creased. Label residue on contents pages. Marks, pen and abrasions on original covers. Text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Edges and spine head are bumped. Minor marks on page block, one or two pages and original covers included at rear. Library stamps on page block, FEP and original covers. Some pages are creased. Text is clear throughout. Binding is visible on some pages but remains intact. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Library stamps on page block head, front pastedown, title page and original covers included at rear. Label residue on FEP and first contents page. Front pastedown and FEP are lightly marked. Pen and marks on original covers. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Library stamps on page block, front pastedown, FEP and original covers included at rear. Minor label residue on first contents page. A few pages are creased on upper leading corners. Marks and pen on page block and original covers. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Front leading edge is bumped. Page block is marked. Library stamps on page block, front pastedown, FEP and original covers included at rear. One or two early and closing pages are slightly tanned. Some pages are creased. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Minor marks on page block and second contents page. Library stamps on page block head, front pastedown, FEP, title page and original covers included at rear. Label residue on first contents page. Marks and pen on title page and original covers. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Page block and early pages are lightly marked. Library stamps on page block head, front pastedown, FEP and original covers included at rear. Label residue on first contents page. Overhanging corner due to printing error on page 357. Marks and pen on original covers. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly marked, scored and worn. Page block and title page are lightly marked and tanned. Library stamps on page block, front pastedown, FEP and original covers. Light creases on a few pages. Minor mark on page 90. Text is clear throughout. Binding is visible on some pages but remains intact. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Library stamps on page block, early pages and original covers included at rear. Label residue on first contents page. Some pages are creased and nicked. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Boards and spine are lightly scored and worn. Library stamps on page block, front pastedown, FEP and original covers included at rear. Minor marks on BEP. Label residue on first contents page. Some pages are dog eared. Page 265 is nicked on upper edge. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-Oxford English Faculty Library. Minor marks and library stamps on page block, early and closing pages. Page iii is scored. Page 287 is dog eared. A few pages are lightly bumped. Marks and pen on original covers included at rear. Text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW. Ex-Library.

1st ed. Binding tight; spine a little damaged; internally VG Used - Good. Good paperback journal Used - Good. Good paperback journal.

1st ed. Owner's inscription (noting details of one article) on front cover; a few spots of foxing; binding tights Used - Good. Good paperback journal Used - Good. Good paperback journal.

1st ed. Presentation inscriptions by Allan Life, one of the contributors, on front cover & contents page; binding tight; slight discolouration to cover Used - Good. Good paperback journal Used - Good. Good paperback journal.

Condition: Very Good. Papercover, 99pp, sunned spine and cover, no marking and writing, others are good condition.

Condition: Very Good. Papercover, 353-470pp, sunned spine, no marking and writing, others are good condition.

Condition: Good. Papercover, 98pp, sunned spine, no marking and writing, sunned sopine and cover, others qre good condition.

Condition: Very Good. Papercover, 209pp-352pp, sunned spine, no marking and writing, others are good condition.

Condition: Good. Papercover, 99pp-208pp, sunned spine, no marking and writing, others are good condition.