BERLIN, Irving

I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep. This Is the Army

New York & Melbourne, This Is the Army, Inc. and Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd. (1942) but later. wraps. Quarto (9" x 12") in green illustrated wraps; 4 pages including covers. Vintage sheet music with words and music by Irving Berlin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on the front cover: "For Bernard/Rosenstein/from Irving Berlin." . Very Good .

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Book number: 020826

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Music Lyrics, Modern Firsts, Irving Berlin, Modern First Editions, Inscribed, Sheet Music Inscribed Modern First Editions Sheet Music Irving Berlin

BERLIN, Irving

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

New York, Irving Berlin Music Corporation, (1945) but later. wraps. Quarto (9" x 12") in gray and green illustrated wraps; 6 pages. Vintage sheet music with words and music by Irving Berlin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on the front cover: "For Iris and Jeff/with love from/Irving Berlin/1979." . Near Fine .

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Book number: 019061

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Music Lyrics, Modern Firsts, Irving Berlin, Modern First Editions, Inscribed, Sheet Music Inscribed Modern First Editions Sheet Music Irving Berlin

BERLIN, Irving

Signed Collection of Sheet Music

[1981]. Hardcover. Thick quarto (8-7/8" x 11-3/4" x 3" thick) in a plastic-enclosed black pebbled leather 3-hole binder containing 194 vintage pieces of sheet music by Irving Berlin, likely all reprints, specially compiled and arranged alphabetically with a special contents page bound at the front. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on the front endpaper: "For Rosemary and Earl Wilson/with love from/Irving Berlin -- 1981." A privately compiled effort exclusively produced and supervised by Irving Berlin during his twilight years, likely only for his closest friends. We are aware of the existence of only one other copy, that belonging to Harold Arlen. Earl Wilson was one of the best known gossip columnists of his day and an authority on Broadway and show business. He often interviewed Berlin, including the well-known interview in December 1953 about HOLIDAY INN when Berlin told Wilson: "But the public liked 'White Christmas' and it became a runaway. You see, a war song doesn't have to be about wars. This is really a peace song." Wilson and Berlin were longtime friends maintaining a 35-year correspondence. Signed page a bit wrinkled not affecting Berlin's writing. Near Fine and possibly unique .

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Book number: 019676

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Music Lyrics, Modern Firsts, Irving Berlin, Modern First Editions, Inscribed, Association Copy, Sheet Music Signed Association Copy Sheet Music Irving Berlin

BERLIN, Irving

Typed Letter Signed (Tls) on the Rumor That a "Colored Boy" Wrote His Songs

14 June 1948. Letter. On a sheet of his personal stationery (7" x 10") addressed to Michael de Lisio of MGM Pictures, Berlin answers an inquiry about a rumor, prevalent since the 1920s, that his songs had been written for him by an anonymous black boy. In full: "The little colored boy story that MacLane talks about is probably the Harry Ruby one. Some years ago, I walked into the Friar's Club with a three months Palm Beach tan and Harry Ruby, who was in the club, pointed to me and said 'there's the little colored fellow who writes all of Berlin's stuff.' Another Ruby crack about the colored fellow was -- Sometime ago, a songwriter asked Ruby how old the little colored boy was and Harry replied 'oh, about Irving's age.'" SIGNED by the composer "Irving Berlin." With a short typed statement by the recipient of the letter stating that he was working at the time for MGM in charge of publicity for EASTER PARADE. Superb letter. Faint folds from mailing. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021565

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Irving Berlin, Popular Music, Show Music Signed Popular Music Show Music Irving Berlin

BERNDT, Jerry

The Homeless: Missing Persons

(Wollaston, MA), Many Voices Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (11" x 12") in printed wraps. Text and photographs by Jerry Berndt. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the photographer on the title page in the year of publication. Ill.: Jerry Berndt. Near Fine .

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Book number: 017895

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Photography, Modern Firsts Jerry Berndt Illustrated Books Literature: American Modern First Editions Modern Photography

BERRYMAN, John

Autograph Letter Signed (Als)

n.p. 13 September 1969. Letter. On personal stationery addressed to a Mr. Watson completely in Berryman's holograph and SIGNED by him at the conclusion. Berryman thanks him for his invitation but says his lecture and seminar schedule forbid him to accept. Fine .

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Book number: 019379

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Edwin Honig, Association, Signed: Modern Firsts, John Berryman, Modern Poetry, Literary Autographs, Modern First Editions Modern Poetry Literary Autographs Modern First Editions Literature: American

BERRYMAN, John

His Thoughts Made Pockets & the Plane Buckt

Pawlet, [VT], Claude Fredericks [Banyan Press], 1958. First Edition. Softcover. Gray paper wrappers with title printed in orange, with publisher's printed envelope. Copy #60 of 500 copies. Berryman's uncommon second book, a slim collection of poems, this copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the title page to the critically-acclaimed essayist Edward Hoagland: "To Ted Hoagland/affectionately/John Berryman/mpls/21 mar '59." Berryman, along with Archibald MacLeish, was a mentor to Hoagland when he attended Harvard in the early 1950s. A superb association copy. Fine in a Very Good envelope with light wear .

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Book number: 018996

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Firsts, John Berryman, Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Literature: American Association Copy Inscribed

BERRYMAN, John

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

New York, Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards and dustwrapper designed by Ben Shahn with his illustrations in the text. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Miss Charlotte Thomson/with every good wish of/-- John Berryman" in Providence, May, 1963. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the base of the spine and a small closed tear .

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Book number: 006236

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, John Berryman, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Ben Shahn Literature: American Inscribed

BERRYMAN, John

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

New York, Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards and dustwrapper designed by Ben Shahn with his illustrations in the text. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper. Poet Jerome Mazzaro's copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Ill.: Ben Shahn. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with a touch of wear to the top front edge .

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Book number: 012571

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, John Berryman, Modern Firsts, Ben Shahn Ben Shahn Modern First Editions Literature: American Modern Poetry Association Copy

BERRYMAN, John

Love & Fame

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. A stylistic breakthrough book for the poet following his award-winning Dream Song books and including his moving "Eleven Addresses to the Lord." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper "To Marcos/very affectionately/& gratefully for many favours--/Have a good summer!/John Berryman/Mpls/31 May 1971." Less than eight months later Berryman would commit suicide. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 014841

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern First Editions, Inscribed, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, John Berryman Signed Literature: American Modern Poetry Modern First Editions

BERRYMAN, John

Poems

New York, New Directions, (1942). First Edition. Wraps. Berryman's first book, SIGNED in full by him on the front free endpaper. A total of 2000 copies were printed, 1500 in wrappers and 500 hardcover, this copy in wraps. Books signed by this sleeping giant of American poetry are uncommon. Small bookplate under the price-clipped dustwrapper flap. Near Fine .

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Book number: 008121

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, First Book, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, John Berryman, First Books Signed Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Literature: American

BERRYMAN, John

Stephen Crane

[New York], William Sloane Associates, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Berryman's critical biography of Crane, an important work in the study of the writer of THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. Part of the American Men of Letters Series. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Ames W. Williams/with thanks for help/& regret that it's not/better/Sincerely/John Berryman/21 Nov 1950." . Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a lightly sunned spine Ames W. Williams was a lawyer, judge, and a great collector of Stephen Crane. He co-wrote the standard bibliography, and his collection now resides at Syracuse University. Berryman refers to Williams and his work on Crane four times in his notes. A fine association.

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Book number: 021265

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Association Copy; John Berryman, Modern First Editions, Literary Criticism, Biography, Modern Firsts, Stephen Crane, Modern Poetry; Inscribed Signed Modern First Editions Association Copy Literature: American

RUSSELL, Bertrand and ERNI, Hans

The Queen of Sheba's Nightmare

(Zurich), (Ernst Scheidegger), (1970). First Edition. Softcover. Folio (11-1/4" x 17") consisting of loose sheets in original white parchment wrappers, the upper wrapper embossed with a design from an original bronze by the artist, housed in a parchment-backed woodgrain clamshell box. A fable (from the series NIGHTMARES OF EMINENT PERSONS) by English philosopher Bertrand Russell, handwritten and reproduced in facsimile, illustrated by the Swiss artist Hans Erni and SIGNED by both of them. Illustrations include an etched portrait of Bertrand Russell, embossed title and initials, 3 double-page lithographed plates and other illustrations, one full-page, by Erni. Of a total edition of 267, this copy is marked "H. C." and is on Rives paper as is the majority of the edition. Enhanced with an ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING by Erni of a naked couple under the moon--an old philosopher and his young pupil--with a dove at their feet, INSCRIBED by the artist “For John Sargent in friendship.”. Ill.: Hans Erni. Fine in a Very Good clamshell box with staining on the front cover .

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Book number: 021294

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Original Art, Limited, Bertrand Russell, Philosophy, Hans Erni, Hans Erni Signed Original Art Illustrated Books Limited

BESTON, Henry

Archive of 4 Autographed Letters Signed

Letter. A fine archive of 4 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED in Beston's neat hand consisting of 10 pages and 2 hand-addressed and SIGNED envelopes along with a small photograph of Beston and his wife, Elizabeth Coatsworth, annotated in another hand on the rear. Three of the letters are addressed to Wilmot Brewer and one to Brookes More, both of Hingham, Massachusetts, where Beston lived. Brewer edited a collection of poems by More and wrote a brief biography of him. In the letter to More, Beston thanks him for sending his translation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. In a letter to Brewer he thanks him for his book on More: "In days so confused and really terrible as these, it is sustaining to the spirit to read of one who has dedicated his life to beauty and the works of the muses." In another letter to Brewer dated 28 December 1941 Beston mentions World War II and thanks him for his "most readable study of the place and influence of the METAMORPHOSES." In the longest letter Beston comments on a book about Virgil: "The book does just what a book ought first of all to do, it enlarges life, throwing good wood on the fire of the imagination and stirring one's interest in the variety and richness of the human spirit." . Near Fine Henry Beston was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of THE OUTERMOST HOUSE, 1928, considered a classic of both writing about nature and about Cape Cod. Spiritually shaken by his experiences in World War I, which included being aboard an American destroyer during combat engagement and sinking, Beston retreated to the outer beach at Eastham in search of peace and solitude, which resulted in the creation of his classic. Beston is considered one of the fathers of the modern environmental movement. Rachel Carson said that Beston was the only author who ever influenced her writing.

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Book number: 018670

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Letters, Environmental LIterature, Archives, Natural History, Autographs, Cape Cod, New England, Henry Beston Signed Environmental LIterature Literature: American New England

BIDART, Frank

Golden State

New York, George Braziller, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. With a note by Richard Howard. One of 500 copies printed of the poet's first book. This copy is INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith vertically on the front endpaper: "To William Meredith--/with affection, and admiration--/and happy memories of Milgate Park/last summer--/Frank/July 10, 1973. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 018018

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Association Copy Literature: American First Book Modern First Editions Inscribed