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Verlag: Victor Kremer Co, Chicago, 1910
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Sheet music. Words by R[ing] W. Lardner. Music by G. Harris "Doc" White. Folio, measuring approximately 10½" x 13½". Bifolium with one sheet laid in to make six pages. Owner's neat, contemporary name inked on cover and lower wrap. Cover a bit soiled near the spine and with a split at the base, interior leaf with a bit of creasing and several short tears at the foredge (not affecting music), very good. Plate number V-K 1241-3. p.2 prints the song "Why Don't the Band Play Dixie" by S.J. Raber, and the lower wrap prints an advertisement for "Doll Rags" by Homer A. Hall and other Kremer publications. A very early appearance in print by Ring Lardner (preceded only by "Zanzibar," published in 1903). G. Harris "Doc" White (1879-1969) was a world champion pitcher who played for the Phillies and the Chicago White Sox. He also played piano and lead his church choir, where he composed several spirituals. A year later White and Lardner would collaborate on the classic baseball song "Gee, It's a Wonderful Game.".