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Published by Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co, New York City, 1902
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Music shop stamp on the front cover, internal tape repairs to the fold with some separation at the top and bottom, creasing to the bottom foredge throughout, some edgewear, and foxing and rubbing to the exterior, still a good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate impression "The little Gypsy Maid" [sic]. Features a sample of "On Emancipation Day" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Will Marion Cook, and the back cover features samples of "My Bamboo Queen," "The Mansion of Aching Hearts," "I'll be there, I'll be there, Mary dear," and "I just can't help from loving that man." Will Marion Cook was an African American composer who studied under Antonín Dvo?ák and is celebrated for his landmark musical, *In Dahomey*, which according to historian Gerald Bordman, was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." *OCLC* locates five holdings.