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(MUSIC.) JOPLIN, SCOTT.
World’s Columbian Exposition “Official
Souvenir” Post Card Signed.
Unused chromolithographic postcard, signed in pencil on
the reverse.
Chicago, 1893
[2,500/3,500]
A RARE SIGNATURE OF SCOTT JOPLIN
,
CREDITED WITH PUTTING RAGTIME
“
ON THE MAP
.”
Scott Joplin (1868-1917), together with Arthur Marshall and a handful of others created an entirely
new musical form. “Rag time,” with its syncopation, was a sharp departure from music that for the
most part depended on a strict 3/4 time, for the waltz, or 4/4 and 2/4 for songs, dances, parades and
everything else. Joplin, who died at the age of 49, wrote some forty-four rags, a ballet and two operas.
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(MUSIC—MINSTRELSY.) RICE, EDWIN LEROY.
The Monarchs of
Minstrelsy, From “Daddy” Rice to Date.
Copious illustrations, 366 pages.
New York, [1910]
[600/900]
A classic work on the subject, and in many ways still the best. With wonderful illustrations not found
elsewhere.
400
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(MUSIC—MINSTRELSY.)
Large collection of sheet music including:
Original Christy Minstrels * Jim Crow. * Jim Crack Corn; or the Blue Tail Fly *
Bless Dat Lubly Yaller Gal * Louisiana Belle * Ole Dan Tucker * Massa’s Old
Plantation * We are Coming Sister Mary (two copies; both with a chromolitho-
graphic cover) * Poor Old Slave * Oh! I’se So Wicked * In the Morning by the
Bright Light * Little Eva; Uncle Tom’s Guardian Angel, and more.
Approximately
35 pieces of engraved or lithographed sheet music, many depicting various performers and
scenes, typically 2-5 pages; removed from larger albums; some with minor foxing, toning,
few with archival repairs and dampstains.
CONDITION VARIES
,
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, 1830’s to 1880’s
[3,500/5,000]
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