Blind Tom Thomas Bethune Wiggins (4 results)
More imagesPublished by S. Brainard's Sons ca. 1866, Cleveland, 1866
- Softcover
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Covers are detached and separated from each other. Covers are approx. 10 3/8" wide by 14". Pages are 10 3/4" wide by 14". Pages have chipping to the upper outer corners throughout. Front cover has a tear to the spine edge which enters the list of sheet music titles. Front cover has a s…mall creased tear near the outer end of the upper edge. Contents are slightly foxed. Ink stamp for a Philadelphia store or distributor (? ) on the lower margin of the front cover and title page. ; Published 1866 but the color illustrated cover is 1884. Last page of music is on the inside of the rear cover. Wording on cover is "Popular Marches, Battle Pieces Etc. For Piano or Organ". Actual title of the song only appears on the front cover in a list of the songs offered by this publisher. "The Battle Of Manassas" on this list is lined out with blue pencil. ; 11 pages.
Gen. Howard's March. Composed by Blind Tom
Bethune, Thomas Greene, 1849-1908 [*Blind Tom] [*Tom Wiggins]
Published by J. Marsh; New York: S. T. Gordon; Boston: O. Ditson & Co, Philadelphia, 1865
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.McBlain Books, ABAA
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Condition: Very Good. [Sheet Music] [6]p. Music on four pages numbered 2-0. Last page blank. 35 cm. Several short edge-tears. Minor foxing. Some browning around edges. At head of title-page: Dedicated to Gen. Howard. Not located in OCLC although it seems clear the the Library of Congress has or had a copy. Oliver Otis Howard, a…Union General, was put in charge fof the Freedman's Bureau shortly after the end of the Civil War in 1865.
Published by Horace Waters; Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co, New York, 1860
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.McBlain Books, ABAA
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Condition: Very Good. [Sheet Music] 6 total pages (illustrated front cover blank on back followed by 3 pages of music, numbered 2-4 and a blank final page). 34 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume with usual stitch marks, etc.). Front cover has some soiling and minor foxing. The blank verso of the cover has substantial offs…etting from the facing page of music. Pages 3 & 4 of the music have substantial foxing. Offsetting on last blank page indicates that this Blind Tom piece had been bound in next to a piece whose title seems to have been "Great Western Quick Step." This arresting image of young Thomas Wiggins, then about ten was also used for his Virginia Polka and perhaps other "Blind Tom" compositions, as is indicated at the bottom of the front cover where "Oliver Gallop" and "Virginia Polka" are both listed with our title underlined in red. 3 1/2 is printed inside a printed six-pointed star at lower right beneath the cover image (significance, if any, unknown to us). An uncommon piece of sheet music. Printed on the first page of printed music below title:"The following is from the Baltimore Sun of June 27th 'TOM' the MUSICAL WONDER.-- We enjoyed an opportunity last night to hear the performance of the blind negro boy 'TOM' at Carrol Hall, and though prepared for something uncommon, all expectation was surpassed by the reality. Nay more, all preconceived ideas of music as a science, an art or an acquisition, were thoroughly baffled, and a new question thrust upon us as to what music really is in the economy of nature. Accustomed to regard it as a gist [sic], improved and perfected by cultivation and practice, we here find it perfectly developed in a blind negro boy, and constituting a part of his nature, as much so as the color of his skin.".
More imagesCyclone Galop Composed by Blind Tom
Bethune, Thomas Greene, 1849-1908 [Blind Tom] [Thomas Greene Wiggins]
Published by Wm. E. Ashmall & Co., 313 East 57th St, New York, 1887
- First Edition
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.McBlain Books, ABAA
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Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. 7p. 35 cm. Sheet music. Light soil and minor uneven browning. Unclear meaning or purpose of the small 5 printed within an eight pointed circle on front cover. One of his less common composition. The small sketch of Bethune occupying the center of the title-page on this piece of sheet music appears t…o have been drawn by A. Caloma. OCLC locates 2 copies (NYPL and U of Mich Lib.). The song is identified on the title-page as copyrighted by Elise Bethune, presumably Eliza Bethune, who after much litigation was awarded control of Tom in August, 1887. He remained with her for the rest of his life, last performing around 1904.
