Lyrics Wodehouse (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Small owner name/address. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sheet music.

Staple-bound Book. Condition: Very Good. Two staplebound softcovers in very good condition: clean and unmarked; straight and tight; slight wear and slight toning. 10 songs each. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Folded Sheet. Condition: Very Good+. Folded sheet with loose sheet between, sheet music, has previous seller's sticker to front cover, slight bumps with very light creasing to corners, some very slight edgewear, tiny, faint cross creases up spine, and some faint rubbing, otherwise a solid VG+ copy.

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Good. Original sheet music printed on light beige paper. Black lettering with gray, white, and orange illustrations on front panel. Pages laid in loose. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2." Six pages, complete. Sheet music is clean and intact overall but has age toning, a few wrinkles, a few small chips along spine. There is also a split running almost the entire length of the spine. A Good copy. Sheet music for the song, "Till the Clouds Roll by," which was part of the musical comedy, Oh Boy! Book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. Music by Jerome Kern. A brief list of other songs in the play is printed on front. The back includes samples of two other songs, "It Wasn't My Fault" (from Love O' Mike) and "And I Am All Alone" (from Have a Heart). Oh Boy! (1917) made its debut in February 1917. For its initial Broadway run that finished in November 1917, there were 463 performances of the play. Oh Boy! was also made into a silent movie in 1919. Lyrics for this song were written by the two noted English authors, Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse.

Stapled Wraps. First edition. Unpaginated [pp. 30]. 4to. Illustrated stapled covers. Programme booklet featuring profiles of performers, many advertisements by local merchants as well as a synopsis of the production in question. No detectable flaws, appears unread; fine. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at L.A.C or PEEL.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Porter, Cole (Music & Lyrics) P. G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton. ANYTHING GOES. London: Samuel French, 1936. First U. K. Edition (there was no published trade edition). 67pp. in publisher's original perfect-bound cream-colored wraps as issued. 9.74" by 7.5." Wrappers somewhat finger-soiled with revised price 3/-" sticker on upper cover. Rare; WorldCat locates only seven institutional copies. [WITH:] Original opening run program from London's Palace Theatre dated 30th September 1935. This program is also exceedingly uncommon. ANYTHING GOES is one of the most endearing and enduring musical comedies of the 1930s; many of Cole Porter's songs from this play have become standards. The play itself continues to be performed worldwide with the major songs "I Get A Kick Out Of You" and "You're The Top" retaining their charm and popularity ninety years later. Adapted into the 1936 film starring Ethel Merman, Bing Crosby, and Donald O'Connor. Recently re-made in 2021 with Sutton Foster in the lead. An important addition to any collection of American Musical Theater.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Quarto. Illustrated from black and white photos. Wrappers. Rubbing to the wrappers, light wear to the spine ends, and a music shop stamp on the front wrapper, very good or better. For voice and piano. The title pages states that this musical was the fifth musical production put on by The Princess Theatre. Dorothy Parker was a fan of the production, and of the writing team in general, writing in *Vanity Fair*, "Wodehouse and Bolton and Kern are my favorite indoor sport . I like the way they go about a musical comedy . I like the way the action slides casually into the songs . I like the deft rhyming of the song that is always sung in the last act, by two comedians and one comedienne. And oh, how do I like Jerome Kern's music those nice, soft, polite little tunes that always make me wish I'd been a better girl. And all these things are even more so in *Oh, Lady! Lady!!* than they were in *Oh, Boy* [an earlier work by the trio)." *OCLC* locates only seven holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade.

Card 153pp Vocal Score.Spine repaired, clean & bright VG+.

Original sheet music for the song "Till the Clouds Roll By," from the 1917 musical "Oh, Boy!" Basis for the 1919 silent film directed by Albert Capellani. A hapless young man elopes with a judge's daughter, and must subsequently win over her serious-minded parents and his own Quaker aunt. The third wildly popular Broadway musical written by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, following "Miss Springtime" (1916) and "Leave It to Jane" (1917). The play made its Broadway debut at the Princess Theatre in February 1917, and later transferred to the Casino Theatre to finish a successful run of 463 performances. 10.5 x 13.75 inches. Six pages (one folded leaf and one inserted leaf). Very Good plus, with the stamp of The Remick Song Shop in Portland on the front wrapper.

Original sheet music for the song "You Never Knew About Me," from the 1917 musical "Oh, Boy!" Basis for the 1919 silent film directed by Albert Capellani. A hapless young man elopes with a judge's daughter, and must subsequently win over her serious-minded parents and his own Quaker aunt. The third wildly popular Broadway musical written by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, following "Miss Springtime" (1916) and "Leave It to Jane" (1917). The play made its Broadway debut at the Princess Theatre in February 1917, and later transferred to the Casino Theatre to finish a successful run of 463 performances. 10.5 x 13.75 inches. Six pages (one folded leaf and one inserted leaf). Very Good, Front wrapper neatly detached, with a few short closed tears to the bottom edges and fore-edges, otherwise complete.

Original sheet music for the song "You Found Me and I Found You," from the 1918 musical "Oh Lady! Lady!!" The fourth wildly popular Broadway musical written by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, following "Miss Springtime" (1916) and "Leave It to Jane" (1917). The play follows a young man whose ex-fiancee appears on his wedding day, causing chaos and consternation among the wedding party. The musical made its Broadway debut at the Princess Theatre in February 1918, and later transferred to the Casino Theatre to finish a successful run of 219 performances. 10.5 x 13.75 inches. Six pages (one folded leaf and one inserted leaf). Very Good plus, with a few short closed tears to the fore-edges and a faint tide mark to the heel.

First Edition. Quarto (31cm); original pictorial wrappers, backed in maroon cloth; [viii],112,[4]pp. Rubber-stamped signature of Ivor Novello on lower title page. Modest wear and creasing, wrappers dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks and creases to same, and a small ink notation and small stain to front cover; several creased corners in text, with the holograph addition in pencil of a second verso in "Lonely Soldier" on pp.24-25 (in an undetermined hand, though not Wodehouse's); complete, Very Good. A musical play co-written by Wodehouse and English author Frederick A. Thompson (1884-1949), with music by Welsh composer Ivor Novello. The Golden Moth premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 5 October, 1921, running for 281 performances. An elusive Wodehouse item in the original wrappers; OCLC notes 12 holdings. McIlvaine Ga.5.