Davis Benny Words (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Sheet Music. Piano and vocal with ukulele arrangement by May Singhi Breen. The pages are tanned with a few small soils spots. the cover has some light soiling, creases, small edge tears and a name written on the top front. The spine has a small tear on the bottom end. The item is rated fair because it has a musty smell. 5 pages. Canadian Edition.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Graphic color art depicting Generals Pershing and Joffre as giants shaking hands across the Atlantic Ocean. Nice condition with a very light store stamp & pencil name (otherwise unmarked) and some mild surface corner edge creases. About 13-1/2 x 10-1/2 with 3 pages. Scarce sheet music in nice condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Mild wear with owner name.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated "Operatic Edition". Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Edgewear including chips and tears, exterior rubbed and lightly soiled, and some toning, complete but just a good or better copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "Don't Leave Me Mammy - 4." The back cover features a short sample of "Yoo-Hoo" by B.G. De Sylva and Al Jolson. The front cover has a picture of influential drag queen, Karyl Norman "The Creole Fashion Plate.". …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated Wraps, 4to, 5p, VG, clean with no marks, names or creases, one small half inch corner crease, btm of spine Dapper lad in moonlight scene on cover. Shipped in plastic w board backing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original large-format sheet music edition featuring a striking Jazz Age cover illustration by noted commercial artist Sydney Leff (1901-2005), one of the most prolific and influential American sheet-music illustrators of the 1920s. Printed in bold blue, gray, and orange tones, the cover depicts a melancholy fireside interior scene with inset publicity photograph of vaudeville performers Lewis and Smith. This issue also includes a ukulele arrangement by May Singhi Breen ('The Queen of the Ukulele'), reflecting the immense popularity of fretted-instrument accompaniment during the height of the 1920s ukulele craze. Rear cover advertises the Irving Berlin title Yearning (Just for You) by Benny Davis and Joe Burke. Condition: Very Good. Light age toning and moderate handling wear consistent with use and age. Mild edge wear, several tiny edge tears, and small corner creases; no major losses or detached leaves. Interior music pages remain clean and fully legible with strong paper integrity and no substantial staining or notation. Cover colors remain bright and attractive, especially uncommon for a 1924 popular-music issue printed on inexpensive stock. Presumed first edition / early commercial printing, 1924. Copyright statement on interior music page reads 'MCMXXIV by Irving Berlin, Inc., 1607 B'way, N.Y.' Original Irving Berlin imprint, period advertising, and the contemporary May Singhi Breen ukulele arrangement are all consistent with a first-year commercial issue intended for home performance and phonograph-era sales. Sydney Leff became one of the defining visual stylists of Tin Pan Alley publishing during the Jazz Age, producing hundreds of highly recognizable covers characterized by elegant elongated figures, theatrical interiors, and bold flat-color lithographic design. His work for Irving Berlin and related New York publishers remains especially sought after by collectors of American commercial illustration and music ephemera. Benny Davis, Joe Burke, and Mark Fisher were major contributors to interwar American popular music. Joe Burke later composed enduring standards including Rambling Rose and Moon Over Miami, while Irving Berlin's publishing house represented one of the dominant forces in Tin Pan Alley music production during the 1920s. Sydney Leff (illustrator). …

Illustrated by color cover. First US edition. {piano and voice}. Folded sheet music. 4to (33,5cm). pp. 3. [1]. Saturday Evening Post Ad. Good. Cover soil and multiple repaired short edge tears. (scanned top and bottom).