Published by Williamson Music, Inc., 1945
Seller: Moneyblows Books & Music, Lee, NH, U.S.A.
Sheet Music
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. \ (illustrator). From the movie "State Fair". Photos of Jeanne Crain, Dick Haymes, Vivianne Blaine. Cover has fading, blue had bled through, small tear in spine. No markings in music.
Published by Frentrup Publishing Company, 1961
Seller: Manian Enterprises, Nashua, NH, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
No Binding. Condition: Good. A vintage theater program dated 1961 from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco for a Civic Light Opera production of "The Sound of Music" with music by Richard Rogers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Starring Florence Henderson. Typical theater program with great vintage ads of businesses of mid-century (1960's) San Francisco. Measures 5.75" x 8.75" with 32 pages. Minor chipping to edges has no impact on the contents.
Published by Rogers & Hammerstein Theatre Library 1951 copyright, NY, 1951
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Later Printing. Writing and notes throughout, owner inscription, spine is taped over; Complete Vocal Book; 7.80 X 5.12 X 1 inches.
Published by Williamson Music, New York, NY, 1945
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Thus. 7-page Vintage SHEET MUSIC for voice & piano. Strong & clean w/light shelf wear. Song from Carousel, 1945 2nd Broadway musical (followintg Oklahoma) from Richard Rogers (1902-1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). Work adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. Time magazine named Carousel the best musical of the 20th century. First produced by The Theatre Guild. Vintage/Vocal & Piano.
Published by Al Greenstone, New York, 1950
Seller: The Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. In good condition; moderate soiling to wraps; soft dimpling and creasing to wraps; small area of surface loss front cover; one small chip to top edge of back cover; 2.5-in. tear separating front and back cover from bottom of spine; inside pages clean and bright. Staple bound, n.p. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. Production staff photographs and biographies, including those for actors Irene Bordoni, David Burns et al and Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Leland Hayward and Joshua Logan. Scanned cover image slightly cropped.
Published by Random House (1953), New York, 1953
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 142 pages. Gray cloth covers with maroon and gilt stamping and a pictorial label to the front cover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.
Published by Williamson Music Limited, London, 1959
Seller: Book Souk, Porstoy, United Kingdom
Sheet Music
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 25 grams. The front page is detatched.
Published by Belwin Mills Publishing Corp., Melville, N.Y., 1945
Seller: Burke's Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Unmarked copy with moderate shelf wear. Interior in very good condition. This is the full vocal score with Musical notation. 190 pages. 190 p. Book.
Published by Williamson Music, 1945
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Sheet music. Condition: Good. NOT Ex-Library. Hardback. Well read copy with some spine wear but very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Published by New York: Random House, 1943, 1943
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition, Warmly Inscribed by Rouben Mamoulian The Director of the Pulitzer Prize Winning Musical - Oklahoma [MAMOULIAN, Rouben, director]. ROGERS, Richard. HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar 2nd. Oklahoma! A Musical Play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd. Based on Lynn Riggs' Green Grow the Lilacs. Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd. New York: Random House, [1943]. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Ken - With thanks for the warm enthusiasm with which he appreciates the right and the beautiful wherever he finds it. Rouben [Mamoulian]". First edition. Small octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 203 x 137 mm.). [x], [1]-146 pp. Photogravure frontispiece and four photogravure plates. The last few leaves slightly creased at lower corner. Publisher's light gray cloth, front cover with a pair of cowboy boots in blue and brown, spine blocked in brown and blue and lettered in white. A near fine copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, slightly worn at extremities. Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie. The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box office hit and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Oscar-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Rodgers and Hammerstein won a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma! in 1944. Between the world wars, roles in musicals were usually filled by actors who could sing, but Rodgers and Hammerstein chose, conversely, to cast singers who could act. Though Theresa Helburn, codirector of the Theatre Guild, suggested Shirley Temple as Laurey and Groucho Marx as Ali Hakim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, with director Rouben Mamoulian's support, insisted that performers more dramatically appropriate for the roles be cast. As a result, there were no stars in the production, another unusual step.[8] The production was choreographed by Agnes de Mille (her first time choreographing a musical on Broadway), who provided one of the show's most notable and enduring features: a 15-minute first-act ballet finale (often referred to as the dream ballet) depicting Laurey's struggle to evaluate her suitors, Jud and Curly.[11] Rouben Zachary Mamoulian (1897-1987) was an American film and theater director. Mamoulian was also the first to stage such notable Broadway works as Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), and Lost in the Stars (1949).