Published by Broadway Music Corporation, New York, 1918
Seller: Rose City Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Sheet Music
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Or First Thus. Graphic color cover with few edge tears, cover creases, small ink name and clean sheet music. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sheet music.
Published by Broadway Music Corporation, New York, 1918
Seller: 2Wakefield, Wakefield, QC, Canada
Sheet Music
No Binding. Condition: Good. 4 pages. 35 cm. Pictorial cover (Child dressed as a soldier giving a soldier's salute - World War I). Light tears to front edge.
Published by Harry Von Tilzer, New York, 1918
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium making four pages. Edgewear including chips and tears, creasing, owner name on the front cover, and fading, a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "The Pickaninny's Paradise. 2." The back cover features samples of "There's Someone More Lonesome Than You" and "Just As Your Mother Was" both with music by Von Tilzer. The front cover features an illustration of African Americans working in a field and an old woman speaking with a child, along with a photograph showing performers Sam Lewis and Sam Dody both in blackface with the caption "Lewis & Dody in Joe Hurtig's Extravaganza 'Hello America.'" The song opens with the lines, "What's the matter honey there's a tear in your eye/Do white folks say you don't know where you go when you die?" *OCLC* locates eight holdings.