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Sheet Music. Zustand: Very Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Sheet music V-l241.

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Significant edgewear including chips and tears with several internal tape repairs, a few tears partially affecting the content though the score and lyrics are mostly legible, a complete but fair only copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "Any Rags? 2." Features short samples of ten other songs. The front cover features an illustration of the song's protagonist, Ragged Jagged Jack, "Here he comes down the street with a pack on his back." It also features a black and white photograph of an obscure singer/actress, Gladys Fisher.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Cover illustration by Starmer. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Some of the lyrics crossed out and altered in pen (more below), exterior rubbed, and light edgewear, very good. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "Mandy Lou 3." Features short samples of two other songs. The front cover features a photograph of an unidentified harpist. Above the music, the title "Mandy Lou" has been crossed out and written above it is the racial pejorative "S*mbo." Throughout the song, the lyrics are altered to reflect this new title, replacing "her" with "him," "maiden" with "laddie," and of course "Mandy Lou" with the aforementioned offensive term. Based on the penmanship we believe these alterations to be contemporary. An upsetting but historically intriguing piece; while the original lyrics are problematic by today's standards, at its heart this is a simple love song sung by a man to his sweetheart. The alterations reduce the lyrics to a jumble of nonsense all in pursuit of shoehorning in a racial slur. It makes one wonder just what sort of parlor this was being performed in, as well as to ponder the implications of a commercial music culture in which the creators inadvertently hand over control of their work by publishing it for others to perform and thus alter.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Sheet music. Cover illustration by Starmer. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Soiling to the margins throughout, bifolium split along the bottom half of the fold, rubbing to the exterior, soiling and some shallow abrasions to the back cover, a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "Mandy Lou 3." Features short samples of "Scented Roses" and "Pitter Patter Rag" by Jos. M. Daly. The front cover features an illustration of an African American couple and a photograph of an unidentified harpist.

Sheet Music. Zustand: Good to Very Good.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. bifolium neatly separated along the fold but both leaves are present, light edgewear, and some rubbing to the exterior, still a very good and complete copy with the cover illustration bight and clean. For voice and piano. Plate number, 1152-3. The front cover features a lovely illustration along with a photograph of three stage actors, Gardner, West, and Sunshine.

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Unknown edition. Folio. Originally a single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Incomplete, missing the single sheet insert (pages three and four), bifolium is separating along the fold and is held together by early internal tape repairs, edgewear including a large chip to the fore edge of the front cover, and rubbing to the exterior, a fair only copy but the cover illustration remains bright and mostly intact. For voice and piano (only the chorus is present). Plate imprint, "I'm Goin' to Look for an Easier Job. 3." The back cover features a sample of "Little Janice of Hyannis" by Wm. R. Macaulay and Thos. S. Allen. The front cover features a black and white portrait of singer, George M. Brennan alongside an illustration of a well dressed African American man who appears to be scowling directly at Brennan. It's truly a shame that this piece is incomplete as it appears to be one of Thomas S. Allen's rarest compositions, with no records or holdings in *OCLC* and no information to be found online; even the *Ragpiano* site, which has the most information available on Allen and lists all of his "known compositions," fails to mention of this song.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Cover illustration by Starmer. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Internal tape repairs along the fold of the bifolium, rubbing to the exterior, and light edgewear, still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate number, 1266-3. A song about a man named, Rastus Jenkins who is having a rough time living the "gamblin' life," though he eventually quits and gets married, he remains broke. The front cover features fanciful imagery of flying "greenbacks" by Starmer and a monochrome photo of Violet Hilson. Also featured are several short samples of other songs including "My Own Lize" by R. E. Hildreth and "Give My Love to Dixie" by John Kemble and Lester W. Keith.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Stated "6D Edition." Cover illustration by Starmer. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Some light edgewear, foxing to the back cover, rubbing to the exterior, and a music shop stamp to the front cover, still a very good and complete copy. An instrumental piece for piano. Plate number, 1688 - 3. The bold and striking cover illustration shows a diverse group of four individuals (all depicted in a caricatured fashion), sampling the tune at coin operated phonograph listening stations complete with personal handheld speakers, three of these stations feature simplified versions of this same illustration, making the whole image rather meta. The listeners' remarks to the new tune are quoted along the bottom, "Oi - Yoi!" says one, and "Hot stuff!" declares another. The Australian cover differs very slightly from the American one, for example the man's (third from the left) long braid is absent on the American version, as are the listeners' remarks. *OCLC* locates five holdings of the American edition (published in the same year) and only three holdings of this Australian edition, both appear to be equally scarce in the trade.