Goodbye to Rome Arrivederci Roma - Sigman Rascel 1955 Sheet Music

Original American sheet-music issue of the internationally popular Italian standard "Arrivederci Roma," here presented under Carl Sigman's English title Goodbye to Rome. The music was composed by Italian singer, actor, and songwriter Renato Rascel, with Sigman supplying the English lyrics. The score itself carries dual copyright notices: 1954 by Edizioni Kramer, Milan, and 1955 by Reg Connelly Music, Inc., New York. Multiple institutional collections, including Mississippi State University and the University of Chicago, catalogue the Reg Connelly edition as 1955. This particular copy is an especially attractive 75c issue with the stark geometric black-and-white cover, rather than the more familiar pictorial version associated with Mario Lanza and The Seven Hills of Rome. The Smithsonian holds a 1955 example with a large Mario Lanza illustration and Marisa Allasio photograph, originally priced at 50c, demonstrating that materially different cover/price states of the American sheet music circulated. The present copy has moderate overall age toning, light handling/creasing and minor edge wear, and a rectangular area of discoloration/ghosting at the upper-right front cover consistent with removal of an old label or sticker. Interior music remains clean and strongly printed. Rear wrapper is blank. Overall Very Good - a sound, complete and quite presentable vintage example.…