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Charles Haskins Townsend, Director, Guide to the New York Aquarium, Published by the New York Zoological Society, 1929 (See photo on right of its Main Room View opposite the title page). There are 174 pages in this superbly bound small book. Its lovely cover shows sea-horses sporting amidst underwater sea grasses. There are wonderful black and white pictures of all types of specimens, 2 to 4 per page, with extremely precise ichthyological descriptions. Townsend did a 1948 update of this little book, with its remarkable history of Castle Clinton-Castle Garden background. See my Katydid Polka blog for a lead illustration of Castle Garden, which was to become a main staging area for immigrants until Ellis Island.
A must have for anyone interested in New York City history. This little book has been able to miraculously (20,000 copies) survive until now, 2010, 81 years after the ravishes of Robert Moses and company who finally succeeded in demolishing the New York Aquarium and Castle Clinton's present directors who refuse to take interesting donations for their site. It is in very good condition and is a bargain at $50 with my autograph in it (Dr. Jordan Richman), even though you could probably get it at the miraculously queer Amazon.com for .02.

Scroll down to the bottom in the Brown Section for an early image of the NY Aquarium. How right Amico was when he foresaw the fate of Castle Garden at the workman's hands. Can you picture Jullien with his monster orchestra where now the sea lions sport and play.

DeLancey Ferguson, The Poems of Robert Burns,
by The Heritage Press 1965, Hardcover As New, Wood Engravings by Joan Hassall,1/4 green cloth covered spine with gold lettering & decorations. Rust & white floral designed front and back covers (no lettering) . Black cardboard As New, slipcase; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 191 pages
Price: $10

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May 1885 to October 1885, V. XXX, New Series, V. VIII, serialized installments of William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham and Henry James, The Bostonians. 975 pages of articles, poetry, and illustrations. Text VG, back cover off otherwise in fair condition.
Price: $32

Holmes, Richard, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, 1993, DJ, New, $23

Sisman, Adam, Boswell's Presumptious Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson, 2001, First American Edition, DJ, New, $25

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon, An Unfinished Novel, Scribners reprint 1969, NDJ, As New, $25

The Faulkner Reader, 682 pages, 1954, Random House, Dust Jacket on spine partly missing, rest ok including frontpiece photo,
good, $15

Liam O'Flaherty, Famine, 1937, 466 pages, Literary Guild Edition, good, $10

Mayakovsky, translated and editied by Herbert Marshall, 1965, 432 pages, ndj, faded spine, rest of cover and inside, vg, $35

Herbert Liebman, A Place for Lily, 2005, Baltimore, http://www.publishamerica.com/, 253 pages, softcover, new, $10

Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine, 1967, first American edition, Macmillan, 384, dj, vg, $50

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

19th Century American Sheet Music

Alexandria Galop C.T. Murphy, 1853
Across the Danube March, Sousa 1877
The Dance Mania Cotillions, Geo.W.Hewitt, 1857
Sarony & Major colored litho of Rooster and Farm Scene, Early Dawn Polka, Francis H. Brown, 1853, For the publication dates and prices as above call: JPRichman--602-256-2830 or: jprich9231@aol.com

Alexandria Galop by C.T. Murphy
Across the Danube March by J.P. Sousa
The Dance Mania, a Choice Collection of Plain Cotillions by J.P. Sousa
Across the Danube March by J.P. Sousa
The Dance Mania of Plain Cotillions (collection) by Geo. W. Hewitt
The Home Set
The Young Folks Set
The Union Set
The Opera Set
The old Folks Set
The Hibernia Set
The Humorous Set
The Ella Polka by Edward Mack
Early Dawn Polka by Francis H. Brown
Florida Polka by Albert Holland
The Flirt Polka by D. Balleyguier
Katydid Polka by Jullien
(See: http://thekaty-didpolka.blogspot.com/)
The Lady’s Book Polka by Mrs. S.R. Burtis
National Schottisch by Julius E. Müller
The New Years March by Mrs. S.R. Burtis
Lee & Walkers Plain Cottilions by D. Brown
Parlour Set
Wait for the Wagon
Old Jessy
Wilkins & His Dinah
Pop Goes the Weasel
Jordan
Jig or Reel
H.M.S. Pinafore by J.P. Sousa
Ringgold March by C. Wonnberger
Star of Hope by S. Mazurette
Angels Whisper by S. Lover
Auld Robin Gray by Mrs. French
Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
Ben Bolt by N. Kneass
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye by William Dressler
The Child’s Unfinished Prayer by Frank H.H. Thomson
Castles in the Air
Dearest I Am Ever Thine by Edward L. Walker
Down the Burn, Davy Love - Scotch Song
Forget Thee! Oh No! by Wm. Hill and J.F. Spalding
Hinda’s Lament by Wm. J.Wetmore and T. Bishop
I Turn to Thee in Time of Need by Thomas Haynes Bayly Esq.
Juana - Cuba Fair Isle by Warren Lanner
John Anderson, My Jo, John by Wolfgang Schindlöcker
Jock O’Hazeldean by Sir Walter Scott
The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore & John Stevenson
Lilly Dale by H.S. Thompson
The Maid of L’Langollen by Jas. Clarke
My Normandy by Berat
Mary of the Glen by Geo. F. Root
Make Me No Gaudy Chaplet by Donizetti
Natalie, the Maid of the Mill by W.C. Peters
Norah Mr. Shane (Irish Ballad) by J. Blewitt
“Oh, Charming May” by P. Henry Hatch & G. Herbert Rodwell
The Old Granite State by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr.
Old Folks at Home, Ethiopian Melody by E.P. Christy
Out of Work by Alice Hawthorne
Roy’s Wife of Aldivalloch by Mrs. Grant of Carron
Shells of Ocean by J.W. Cherry
Tis Home Where’er the Heart Is (words from Pocahontas drama)
What Is Home without a Mother by Alice Hawthorne
Where Is Home? by Father Ryan and James G. Clark