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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not Stated/assumed First Edition. Condition is nice overall with a few small inner edge tears and creases. Five pages plus rear showing THE GEM DANCE FOLIO FOR 1911. Center art picture of JOSIE HEATHER on the cover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sheet music.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Can you believe that's Mae West? Is she praying? This sheet music is from 1912. That's pretty cool. And it's in quite decent condition. You can see the covers in the photos. There's a little smooth rubbing at the front top corner. There is a little orangish color just below the photo of the innocent nurse. There are six pages including the front cover and the rear cover. The front inside cover presents the music to Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee by Stanley Murphy and Henry Marshall. There's also a list of New Song Hits and New Instrumental Hits. All of the pages are in very nice condition. They are very clean. The wear is quite minimal, a teeny tiny (1/8th") tear off the top edge of two pages. There are no markings, no attachments, nor has anyone written their name or anything else anywhere.

First Edition. Quarto (35cm); original pictorial wrappers; 6pp. Old horizontal fold at center, some creasing to wrappers, a few splits along the spine-fold, and several small tears and attendant creases to edges and margins of the inner leaf; Good to Very Good. Attractive piece of suffrage-themed sheet music, the lyrics told from the perspective of a father and his little boy, whose mother was absent due to her involvement in the women's rights movement. "A little lad with curly hair stood by his father's knee / Could see that he was crying he was sad as he could be / He sobbed and said "I feel so blue," as tears ran down his cheeks / "Oh father where is mother she has not been home for weeks" / His Pa said "Lad the tale is sad, She's down at Suffrage Hall / She's gone to fight for women's rights, why there's their bugle call." In comparison to the denigrating tone of other suffrage songs from the period, the chorus here conveys familial pride: "Hear the tramp of their feet - as they come down the street / Gee those girlies look sweet, They're all dressed up so neat / Your dear old ma just took a fighter's place / She likes the smell of powder 'cause it's always on her face / There's no rats in her hair - you can see she don't care / Holds her head in the air, Gee your mother's a bear / Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the girls are marching, Your Mother's gone away to join the army." OCLC notes 3 holdings (LC, Baylor, British Library). CREW S-1913-18. 83995.