Patten Gilbert Words Everett Grieve (1 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Cover designed and executed by Robert Patterson. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Toning to the interior, sunning to the front cover, minor edgewear, and a crease at the top of the front cover, still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "On Freedom's Shore - 3." The back cover features short samples of four other songs. A note printed above the music states, "Dedicated to the Council Against Intolerance in America. Co-chairmen George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour and William Allen White. 'On Freedom's Shore' is dedicated to the Independence Day Ceremony of the council Against Intolerance in America, in which thousands of American Communities have joined to make July Fourth a stirring reaffirmation of those basic principles of liberty and equality set forth in the Declaration of Independence upon which our nation is founded." An obituary of Gilbert Patten states that he was "one of the most prolific writers of dime novel fiction in the world," and explains that he wrote under the pen-name, Burt L. Standish, with his most popular books being about a character named Frank Merriwell. And it appears that very little has been written about the composer of this piece, Everett Grieve. A rare and intriguing piece; it is unrecorded by *OCLC* and appears to be equally uncommon in the trade.