Original Sheet Music Collection (1939 -1948)
New York: Chappell, 1939.
27 different songs composed by Kurt Weill during the last decade of his life. 4to, pictorial wrappers. New York: Chappell, 1939 -1948. Fine.
Includes several scarce issues such as "Mile After Mile" from "Railroads on Parade" with the original train graphics, from a production which premiered at the 1939 World's Fair in 1939. Lyric writers include Langston Hughes, Paul Green, Ogden Nash, Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner and Maxwell Anderson. Each cover has a tiny "Yes" or"No" in pencil, the notes of a music distributor determining which songs to reorder.
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fine
Language: English
Price: $950.00
Item #281471