George Gershwin (First Edition, First Trade Binding, In Dj)
Language: English
Published by Longmans, Green And Co. 1938, London- New York-Toronto:, 1938
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
AbeBooks seller since August 25, 1999
Association member: IOBA
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252 Pp. First Edition, Trade Issue: Covers Printed With Red And Yellow Background [Limited Edition Is Black And Yellow, Later Issues Are All Red]; Title Page Black Printing Slightly Higher Than Later Printings, With Text "Painting By Siqueros" On Title Page Touching The Illustration Above [ Alignment Corrected In Most Copies Of The Trade Edition And Later Printings]; Lacking The Colophon Page At End, Which Is Represented Only By A Stub Which Does Not Appear To Have Been Trimmed [A Defect Also Found In Some Copies In The Limited Edition Binding]. Merle Armitage's Well-Designed And Edited Collection Of Tributes To George Gershwin From Luminaries Including His Brother Ira, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Paul Whiteman, Walter Damrosch, Dubose Heyward, Irving Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg, Serge Koussevitzky, And Jerome Kern. Near Fine, Rubbing Along Bottom Edge. Dj With Moderate Wear, A Few Very Small Chips, Light Soiling To Front And Rear Panels With Browning To Spine Panel. Not Price-Clipped. The Book Is Not Uncommon, But Usually Found Only In The Later All-Red Binding (With Corrected Title Page Alignment).…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- George Gershwin (First Edition, First Trade Binding, In Dj)
- Author
- Armitage, Merle (Editor And Designer, Assisted In Research And Revision By Ramiel Mcgehee), With Paul Whiteman, Olin Downes, Walter Damrosch, George Gershwin, Merle Armitage, Otto H Kahn, Arnold Schoenberg, William Daly, Harold Arlen, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Isamu Noguchi, David Ewen, Nanette Kutner, Jerome Kern, Dubose Heyward, Rouben Mamoulian, Beverley Nichols, Irving Berlin, S. N. Behrman, Ira Gershwin, Serge Koussevitzky, Gilbert Seldes, Etc.
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green And Co. 1938, London- New York-Toronto:
- Publication year
- 1938
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- 16 Reproductions Of Paintings By George Gershwin, Sixteen Portraits, Painting By Alfaro Siqueiros, Caricatures By Peggy Bacon And Miguel Covarrubias, Endpapers By Carlos Dyer, Hand Lettered Title Page By William Stutz
- Edition
- First Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Music
Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
CA, U.S.A.
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