Debeck billy (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Cover shows minor wear, pages are tanned and clean.

Oblong 32mo; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; unpaginated, b&w illustrations on almost every page; a few are neatly hand colored by young readers; edgeworn and rubbed wraps else a good, clean, tight copy.

couverture souple. Editions Francis Salabert | Paris 1923 | 27.10 x 35 cm | une feuille rempliée | Edition originale de cette partition pour piano, premier plat illustré en couleurs par Debeck. Agréable exemplaire en dépit de quelques salissures et d'une petite déchirure marginales. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition of this piano score, first cover illustrated in color by Debeck. Handsome copy despite some soiling and a small marginal tear. *.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Cover illustration by DeBeck. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Light staining on the front cover going through to the verso, rubbing and light foxing to the exterior, and separating a bit at the bottom of the fold, still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate number, 1373-4. The horse, Spark Plug, is from the comic strip *Barney Google and Snuffy Smith*, the third-longest running comic strip in history, and it is still being produced today. This song is a follow-up to the wildly popular song "Barney Google," penned by the same authors. Both songs were released in 1923 at the height of Spark Plug's popularity. Commenting on Spark Plug, comics historian Don Markstein said, "Sparky's first race became one of comics' first national media events, eagerly anticipated by millions of newspaper readers. So great was the public's enthusiasm that DeBeck, who had been planning to retire the plug after that one storyline, made him a permanent part of the cast. Spark Plug was such a star during the 1920s that children who enjoyed the comics were liable to get 'Sparky' for a nickname, for example, Charles M. 'Sparky' Schulz, who grew up to create *Peanuts*" (Wikipedia). The cover illustration of this song depicts Barney Google's jockey, Sunshine, using a pitchfork to spur Spark Plug in the big race. *OCLC* locates only five holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. A rare piece of both music and cartoon history.…