Nat Mann (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Edgewear including chips and tears with internal tape repairs along the fold, soiling to the exterior and to the margins of the insert, and light pink staining to the back cover from another piece of sheet music, a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "My Sulu &c. 4733-3 4839." *OCLC* locates seven holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade.

Sheet Music. Condition: Very Good-. Unstated edition. [a decent clean copy, but reinforced with brown paper tape along the spine and the right edge of the front cover]. Music and lyrics for a cringeingly racist ditty about "A Coonlet Courtship," with a cover illustration matching the first lyric line: "Two little piccaninnies sitting on a stile" (with a handy watermelon at their feet). And of course the front cover proclaims that the song was "sung & illustrated with great success by Maxwell & Simpson," a couple of white guys. (I wonder which one of them depicted the little girl?) The rear cover lists about two dozen additional "Coon Songs" available from the publishers (including one by Bert Williams), "that are all the rage in the rage of coon songs." (If performed today, they would no doubt inspire an entirely different variety of rage.).

Softcover. Condition: Good. Presumably the first edition. Cover illustration by Dorothy Dulin. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Light dampstaining to the top margin of page two, a bit of fading to the top of the front and back covers, dampstaining to page five but the contents remain bright, and edgewear including some small tears and nicks, still a good or better copy with a lovely cover illustration. For voice and piano with a supplement of the score on page five composed for "male or mixed quartet" providing 1st tenor, 2nd tenor, baritone, and bass. Plate number 7580-4. There were multiple front covers with the same illustration but with different photographs, this copy has a photograph of William Redmond of "That" Quartet. The back cover features a sample of "Daddy Has A Sweetheart (And Mother Is Her Name)" by Gene Buck and Dave Stamper. R.W. Lardner, better known as Ring Lardner, was a celebrated satirical author in his time and admired by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway, and Virginia Woolf. *OCLC* locates five holdings of this piece.

Hardback. Condition: New. 10.

Hardback. Condition: New. 10.

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated printed paper covers. 13½'' x 10¾''. Contains 6 pages folded sheet music including the covers. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. Internal clear tape repair down the spine and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.

4to. First edition; sheet music [plate number 7580-5]. Not seen by Ring Lardner bibliographers [Bruccoli and Layman Section B, Note 5 (stating): "Lardner wrote the lyrics for the 1913 version of Nat Mann's 'That Old Quartet.' No copy has been located."]. 4to. A scarce publication (not seen by Ring Lardner bibliographers); OCLC lists five worldwide holdings [Yale, Virginia, Bowling Green State, Baylor and British Library]. First line begins: "Sometimes in the ev'ning, when there's nothing else to do/ When that old quartet starts singing." Pictorial wrappers have a few light creases and short edge tears, moderate toning to extremities of printed text in margins, verso has two small chips with no loss to printing, else a very good copy with pictorial front cover quite fresh and bright First edition; sheet music [plate number 7580-5]. Not seen by Ring Lardner bibliographers [Bruccoli and Layman Section B, Note 5 (stating): "Lardner wrote the lyrics for the 1913 version of Nat Mann's 'That Old Quartet.' No copy has been located."].