Edition: 1932nd edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Workd Music Corporation
Description: Good++, Fair. 4TO, 167 pgs., Hardcover. Hardcover. Beautifully illustrated by Alajalov. Two tone boards show some soil and rubbing. Worn corners, chipped spine ends. Foxed and soiled endpapers. Text pages lightly toned with occasional finger soil to margin, but otherwise clean. Dust jacket has another wonderful wrap around illustration by Alajalov. Jacket has two large three inch chips missing from the upper edge of the front cover, one surrounding the spine and therefore taking the upper three ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster, 1932.
Date Published: 1932
Description: Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s) First edition. 4to. Photographic frontispiece portrait of George Gershwin, playing a grand piano, by Maurice Goldberg; photograph of Gershwin's hands playing the Steinway piano by Fritz; illustrated 18 full page color illustrations by Constantin Alajalov (5 are double page). 2 page introduction by George Gershwin. Original 1/2 brown suede over tan cloth stamped in dark blue. No dust jacket. Very good. Piano-vocal scores of 18 of Gershwin's (1898-1937) own ... read more
Edition: Revised
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1941
Description: Tall quarto; vg/good-; dj, purple spine with white text; HB, purple faux cloth spine with white text; faux half bound with black boards; minor shelf wear and bumping; text block, clean; endpapers, tinted tan; 126 pp.; age-toning; piano scores; with voice and lyric lines; dj, sunned; major chipping and short tears; [BRO-DART]; else very good. Music. 7-35-1149067. read more
Description: New York: Simon & Schuster. 1941. First revised edition. 11th printing. Quarto. Illustrated burgundy paper and black cloth covered boards. Tips have a trace of wear else near fine in pretty much complete dustjacket with a nice, bright front and rear panel and faded on the backstrip with some wear along the spine joints. Extremities have a bit of wear. Verso of dustjacket has been strengthened in spots with cello tape else very good. A much nicer than usual copy of this classic George Gershwin ... read more
Binding: Hard Bound
Publisher: New World Music Corporation/Harms, INC, New York
Date Published: 1932
Description: Good. 10" x 13" Good condition, text tight and clean, brown cloth boards over brown faux-suede, small inscription from previous owner on front paste page, boards soiled on edges, water stain on front and back boards from top to bottom, stain varies in width from 1/2" to 3", affects margins of first three pages and last two pages, affects no text or illustrations, boards lightly warped, corners bumped, spine cocked, 167 pages of text, music, and illustrations. read more
Edition: First Trade
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1932
Description: Alajalov. Collectible; Very Good in Good jacket. The 1932 1st trade edition, IN THE UNCOMMON DUSTJACKET. Bright and VG+ in an attractive duotone cloth. The fragile dustjacket, while 90% in tact, does have major chipping to the inside front flap and minor chipping along the edges of the front and back panels. Most of the lettering to the jacket spine and a bit to the back panel--as well as the bottom 20% of the inside front flap--is gone, making this a G+ example of the dustjacket. Nonetheless, ... read more
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