Sale 22BP03 | Lot 75

BERLIN, IRVING Songs from Annie Get Your Gun.

Catalogue: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
BERLIN, IRVING  Songs from Annie Get Your Gun.

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Lot 75
BERLIN, IRVING Songs from Annie Get Your Gun.
[New York: Irving Berlin Music Co., 1946]. A privately prepared songbook for presentation, inscribed by Berlin to Harold Arlen: "To Harold/with merry Xmas and love to you and Annie/from Irving." Original brown leather with the title stamped in gilt and with the year at lower left and "Harold Arlen" at lower right. 12 x 9 inches (30 x 23 cm); 63 pp. Some rubbing to leather extremities, else fine.

Provenance: A Portion of the Harold Arlen Archives, Property of Mrs. Rita Arlen

A fine association between Berlin and his long time friend and contemporary, Harold Arlen. This preparation of songs from one of Berlin's best-loved musicals was apparently privately prepared for presentation is quite scarce. The songs here include Anything You Can Do, There's No Business Like Show Business, The Girl That I Marry, etc. We trace few copies of this edition and note a copy sold in these rooms in 2008.


C A Portion of the Harold Arlen Archives, Property of Mrs. Rita Arlen

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Sold for $1,134 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Sold for $1,134 (includes buyer's premium)

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