Williams Alstyne (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Popular Edition. Owner name/address couple places on cover and inside with tape at bottom spine. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sheet music.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Charlotte Ravenscrof on Cover (illustrator). 1st. 6 pages; pictorial wraps w/chipping and tears at the foredge; pages separated.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is scuffed with edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. DISBOUND loose sheet music extracted from a larger bound collection. Minor edgewear and light age toning of sheets, however music is clear and unobscured. Contains pianoforte accompaniment, lyrics and tonic Sol-Fa./.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Popular Edition. Nice condition with light edge wear, few small tears, and mild creasing (tiny stain). Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sheet music.

Magazine/ Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Large format sheet music, five pages. Cover art by Gene Buck. Very good condition, a clean and unworn copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York, 1910. Softcover, 5 pp. Very good with edge wear, a slight chip top corner of front wrap, a few short horizontal tears.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Piano and lyrics. NO COVERS - was likely part of a larger bound collection. Some edgewear and age toning of pages, music is completely legible.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Color illustrated wraps depicting cowboys around a campfire. Folio. 6 pp., including covers. A folk song about cowboys around San Antonio, Texas. GOOD condition. General fading and minor toning. Minor soiling. Some curling, creasing, tearing and chipping along the extremities.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 7 pp. Scored for S.A.T.B., with piano accompaniment. General Music Co. Choral Library, no. Ed. GC 9.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Shapiro, Remick & Co., New York, 1903. Softcover, 5 pp. Sheet music booklet. As Sung by Marie Cahill in Daniel V. Arthur's Production of the Musical Comedy Success 'Nancy Brown' . Fair with all pages detached.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Sheet music format and insert from The New York World Sunday newspaper for 31 July 1910. Silly musical called Girlies, here on front is sketch of dark black man or boy with fierce stare eating huge slice of watermelon. Art vaguely related to lyrics about Bill the coon who turns white, Williams was successful songwriter but this hits racist bottom, 3pps. Sounds like a song title! Delicate brown paper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Marvellous cover graphics, suitable for framing. Some light edgewear, former owners signature on cover, interior fine - music is clean and bright. No stated date, published ca. 1900 or later.

Sheet Music. Condition: Good. Jerome H. Remick & Co.[Published Date: 1912]. Sheet music, large format (10 x 13.5"). Paper covers, 6 pages (including covers). For voice and piano. "Popular Edition" " As Originally Sung by Emma Carus" With inset photos of Williams and Van Alstyne. Nice cover art by Starmer. In good condition with a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to pages as well, but otherwise unmarked. Egbert Van Alstyne (1878 - 1951) and Harry Williams (1879 - 1922) were a successful songwriting duo whose work shaped early American popular music. Van Alstyne, from Illinois, and Williams, from Minnesota, began collaborating around 1900, blending Van Alstyne's melodic compositions with Williams' witty lyrics. They became widely known for hits like In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree (1905), popular in vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley. Their partnership lasted until about 1911, with Roo te too toot being one of their last collaborations. After their split, Van Alstyne continued composing, while Williams' career wound down before his death in 1922. Emma Carus (1879 - 1927) was a well-known contralto singer who starred in vaudeville and was part of the original Ziegfeld Follies cast in 1907. She also appeared in Broadway productions, gaining fame for her energetic stage performances. [Verse I] Willie Fail who started in Yale a year ago, Was very very slow In things he ought to know. He couldn't spell, but still he could yell to beat the band. In ev'ry game he won his fame. By rooting in the stand. For he knew his college cry, He'd root 'till his throat was dry And after the game he'd holler the same, he rotted for Rock and Rye. [Chorus] Roo-te-too-toot, Roo-te-too-toot, Roo-te-too-too-te-too-toot! I'm as happy as I can be, I don't care what becomes of me. Roo-te-too-toot, Roo-te-too-toot, Officer, officer, shoot! But I won't go home until morning, With my Roo-te-too-too-te-too-toot! A note about the cover art : Some of the most creative and eye-catching cover art of the ragtime-era were done by one of the prolific, but elusive, Starmer Brothers. Their work was of consistently high quality and they were turning out nearly a quarter of all large format covers from the late 1890s to around 1919. The identity of the artists was unknown until an invoice was discovered with a printed heading describing "Starmer" as artist and medical draughtsman. Not much else is known about the Starmer family.

Sheet Music. Condition: Very Good.

sheet_music. Condition: Used - Good. *Different cover graphics. Published by Warner Bro. Publications INC.* Some wear. Very serviceable copy.

Sheetmusic. Condition: Poor. Popular Edition. Covers only with centre page 3-4 missing. The lyrics remaining provide a portrayal of cultural views at the time: "Shake your moccasin and roll your eye, Tear my blanket, make my feathers fly". Colour illustration on front cover. Chips and tears. Ink stamp lower front.

Sheet music. 4to, pp. 3. Cover illustration in deep blue, purple and yellow. A few small tears, o/w a VG copy.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Cover Illustration (illustrator). 6 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good or better condition, slight wear to edges. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Spiral bound. Archival reprint. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized, taped at spine, Starmer drawing depicts Black man and women and her lovely home, garden in very idealized setting with black dancers, banjoists on hill dancing while sun goes up or down, a ridiculous scene compared to then real-life sharecropping life. Several closed tears and chips at lower right corners, scarce.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Bifolium separated along the fold but both leaves are present, edgewear including chipping and tearing, and rubbing to the exterior, a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "It Looks like a Big Night To-night. 3." Includes short samples of "Don't Forget to Drop a Line to Mother" also by Williams and Van Alstyne, and "Over On the Jersey Side" by Jack Norworth. The front cover features a black and white portrait of actor and comedian, Lew Dockstader in blackface with his last name spelled incorrectly. The song's protagonist is "Old Peters" who gets away from his wife one night to "paint the bloomin' town" with his buddy. Above the score is printed the following, "Respectfully dedicated to Mr. Mason Peters (but this doesn't go if his wife hears it)." *OCLC* locates only five holdings.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Sheet music for racist early 20th century song pages are not attached to each other, tears on the edges, rear has 4.5x1.5" chunk missing. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.

Condition: Good. Sheet Music. Folio. 6 pp. Soft Covers, Good with loose pages, some staining, minor losses, tears. Illustrated cover. First Edition.

Fold w/sheet Laid in. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1912 Edition. long split at spine. o/w near fine. unidentified two man in porthole picture. nice image.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Francis Day and Hunter January 1905 Binding: Trade Paperback.

Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated printed paper covers. 13½'' x 10¾''. Contains 6 pages folded sheet music including the covers. Scored for piano and solo voice with lyrics. Without any tears to the covers and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.

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. Two small internally repaired tears to the fore edge of the front cover and in Very Good condition. Illustrated by André De Takacs and is pretty racist in its depiction. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.

Melbourne and Sydney : Stanley Mullen, [1908]. Folio, pictorial front cover inscribed 'Mr Roland Thomas', [6] pp of music notation, including two shorter compositions inside front and rear covers; rear cover with publisher's advertisement; a good copy. Copies are held in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.