Free FedEx or USPS Priority Delivery  —  All USA orders over $125  —  Browse our New Arrivals
Skip to main content
Login | Cart

Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC

Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC

Main Navigation

Toggle main navigation
  • Browse
    • Africa
      African American Writers
      African Methodist Episcopal
      African-American History
      African-American Slavery
      Alabama
      American Broadsides
      American Civil War
      American Enterprise
      American Law
      American Medicine
      American Presidents
      American Revolution
      American West
      Art & Graphics
      Boston
      California
      Canadiana
      Chicago
      Children's Books
      Civil Rights
      Connecticut
      Delaware
      Fiction & Poetry
      Florida
      Food & Drink
      Georgia
      History of Education
      Illinois
      Kentucky
      Labor
      Maps
      Maryland
      Massachusetts
      Military
      Mississippi
      Music & Musicians
      Native Americans
      New Jersey
      New York City
      New York State
      North Carolina
      Ohio
      Pennsylvania
      Philadelphia
      Photography
      Quakers
      Reconstruction Era
      Religion in America
      Sermons or Orations
      Social Reform
      South Carolina
      Texas
      Theatre & Amusements
      Trade Catalogs
      Travel
      Varia
      Virginia
      Washington DC
      Women's History & Women Writers
      World War I & II
      Browse All Categories
      Recent Acquisitions
  • Browse Mobile
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • Africa
    • African American Writers
    • African-American History
    • African-American Slavery
    • American Broadsides
    • American Civil War
    • American Enterprise
    • American Law
    • American Medicine
    • American Presidents
    • American Revolution
    • American South
    • American West
    • Art & Graphics
    • Boston
    • California
    • Chicago
    • Children's Books
    • Civil Rights
    • Connecticut
    • Cuba
    • Expositions and World's Fairs
    • Fiction & Poetry
    • Florida
    • Food & Drink
    • History of Education
    • Hotels and Resorts
    • Labor
    • Maps
    • Maritime & Naval
    • Maryland
    • Massachusetts
    • Military
    • Music & Musicians
    • Native Americans
    • New Jersey
    • New York City
    • New York State
    • Ohio
    • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia
    • Photography
    • Quakers
    • Reconstruction Era
    • Religion in America
    • Social Reform
    • South Carolina
    • Texas
    • Theatre & Amusements
    • Trade Catalogs
    • Travel
    • Varia
    • Virginia
    • Washington DC
    • Women's History & Women Writers
    • World War I & II
  • Catalogs
    • Catalogs & Lists
    • For Collectors
    • Recent Acquisitions
  • Sell to Us
  • About
  • Contact
Advanced Search
Music & Musicians

 Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Sheet Music, Song Sheets, Spirituals, Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Folk Songs, Opera Musical Theater, Jazz, Hymns, Gospel Music, Choirs and Choral Music, Musical Instruments and Stores, Etc.

 

Music & Musicians

Music & Musicians

 Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Sheet Music, Song Sheets, Spirituals, Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Folk Songs, Opera Musical Theater, Jazz, Hymns, Gospel Music, Choirs and Choral Music, Musical Instruments and Stores, Etc.

 

Refine search results

Skip to search results
Refine Search
Results 1 - 25 (of 37)
Music & Musicians
Page 1 of 2
  •  
  • 1
  • 2
  • >Next page
3733188] Michael Todd’s Hot Mikado with Bill Robinson, staged by Hassard Short. Hall of Music,...

Michael Todd’s Hot Mikado with Bill Robinson, staged by Hassard Short. Hall of Music, New York World’s Fair.

Profusely-illustrated souvenir program for this jazzed-up adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. A visual spectacle, the musical featured an African-American cast and starred the..... Read More about Michael Todd’s Hot Mikado with Bill Robinson, staged by Hassard Short. Hall of Music, New York...

Purchase

Price: $150.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3733124] Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956]. Don Friedman, Ken Joffe

Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956]

Essays and photographs published on the occasion of the 1956 Randall’s Island Jazz Festival with performances by Billie Holliday, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie..... Read More about Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956

Purchase

Price: $45.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3732908] Large signed 1914 photograph of Pietro Frosini playing an accordion. Pietro Frosini

Large signed 1914 photograph of Pietro Frosini playing an accordion.

A sizable portrait photograph of this Sicilian virtuoso accordionist, one of the first to be recorded on an Edison cylinder record and a staple on..... Read More about Large signed 1914 photograph of Pietro Frosini playing an accordion

Purchase

Price: $350.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3732914] The Song of the Cotton Picker. Madeline Horres Hantske, Carl Julien

The Song of the Cotton Picker.

Introduction by Archibald Rutledge. With photographs by Carl Julien. Photos and poems that document the songs and daily life of the “gullah Negroes” of South..... Read More about The Song of the Cotton Picker

Purchase

Price: $75.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3732870] Illusions for Piano [Morton Feldman in New Music Quarterly, July, 1950]. Morton Feldman,...

Illusions for Piano [Morton Feldman in New Music Quarterly, July, 1950].

First edition of Morton Fedman’s first piano work (1950) to appear in print, one of his earliest compositions and one of his earliest published works..... Read More about Illusions for Piano [Morton Feldman in New Music Quarterly, July, 1950

Purchase

Price: $375.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3732501] Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela. [Inscribed by Young and Zazeela]....

Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela. [Inscribed by Young and Zazeela]

Inscribed by the husband and wife performance artists: “To Asher, with all good vibrations in sound and light, La Monte Young Marian Zazeela, 05 X...... Read More about Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela. [Inscribed by Young and Zazeela

Purchase

Price: $150.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3731687] Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title]. By Lester Bodine,...

Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title]

Written by two white composers, this ragtime song first appeared in an illustrated newspaper supplement. For this supplement, a grotesque cover art illustration was used..... Read More about Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title

Purchase

Price: $75.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3731678] Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer. photographer Eddie Birch

Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer.

Signed publicity photograph of Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993), showing him holding his iconic trumpet with its bell bent upward. Gillespie is noted for his bebop style..... Read More about Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer

Purchase

Price: $250.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3730812] Mammy’s Hum-Tune. A Black Key Melody for Piano. Hermene Warlick Eichhorn

Mammy’s Hum-Tune. A Black Key Melody for Piano.

A “plantation song” or imitative Black American spiritual (“Roll on, ole Jordan…”) here used as a lullaby. The music was written by Hermene Warlick Eichhorn..... Read More about Mammy’s Hum-Tune. A Black Key Melody for Piano

Purchase

Price: $45.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3730621] [Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside]. S. Curt A. Barad, P...

[Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside].

Publicity and concert booking promotional sheet for Bo Diddley Jr., “master blues and R&B guitarist and singer.” Born David Hill Jr., Diddley was given his..... Read More about Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside

Purchase

Price: $45.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3730376] [1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral...

[1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral Performances].

Ephemera group, mostly from Hagerstown, Maryland; principally, 10 musical and choral programs from 1916 to 1920. Sponsoring organizations include the Choral Society of Hagerstown, Concert..... Read More about 1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral Performances

Purchase

Price: $150.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3730089] When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover...

When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]

From cover to cover, a chromolithographically illustrated program for this “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the American Civil War. The three-act..... Read More about When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title

Purchase

Price: $125.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3725340] [Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title]. Unkwn

[Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title]

Late 18th or early 19th century essay on music with original content, though freely borrowing from the the text of Noah Webster’s essay “On Vocal..... Read More about Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title

Purchase

Price: $375.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3729816] The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio]....

The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio]

Publicity card for the Black women’s vocal trio of Victoria Wallace, Valerie Holiday, and Helen Scott who performed as The Three Degrees. The card, which..... Read More about The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio

Purchase

Price: $45.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3729263] The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their...

The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical entertainments…

Rare broadside advertising this African-American albino quartet, shown performing in a minstrel array, playing the bones, the fiddle, the banjo and the tambourine. The quartet..... Read More about The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...

Purchase

Price: $8,500.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3729449] [Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy). Words and,...

[Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy).

Two pieces of sheet music for the Mills Brothers, popular African American jazz and pop recording artists and entertainers and inductees to the Vocal Group..... Read More about Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy

Purchase

Price: $75.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3727447] African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation...

African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy].

Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted Black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy

Purchase

Price: $250.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3729250] Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of...

Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South Carolina broadside].

Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...

Purchase

Price: $50.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3729008] [Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie, Upper...

[Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra ...

Advertising poster for an appearance of the Count Basie Orchestra, likely from 1985, less than a year after the death of the legendary jazz pianist..... Read More about Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra

Purchase

Price: $45.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3728735] The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau

The Eastern Girls [cover title].

The all-woman trio The Eastern Girls was comprised of a banjoist, a mandolin player, and a soprano singer. All the women sang. Here they are..... Read More about The Eastern Girls [cover title

Purchase

Price: $50.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3728734] Songs and Stories of the Red Man. The Eastern Lyceum Bureau, Albert Gale, Martha Gale

Songs and Stories of the Red Man.

A white couple on the speaking and Chautauqua circuits, Albert and Martha Gale, billing themselves as remarkable musicians dress up as native Americans and perform..... Read More about Songs and Stories of the Red Man

Purchase

Price: $75.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3727953] Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow....

Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.

Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at Virginia’s Hampton Institute for African Americans and Native Americans; this title published almost a...... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...

Purchase

Price: $125.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3727686] “The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper]. Mary Louise Fryberger

“The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper]

College paper by a Smith College student writing of African-American musical tradition as seen from her perspective. The author puts forth the opening ideas that..... Read More about “The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper

Purchase

Price: $75.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3728545] Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday...

Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday Blues Festival… [1991 concert broadside]

Small broadside promoting an all-African American musical line-up for a July 4th holiday weekend musical concert for returning Gulf War veterans. Appearing at the concert—held..... Read More about Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday Blues...

Purchase

Price: $35.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
3727825] I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]. lyrics Ruth Florence, Johnny...

I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]

Sheet music for Ruth Florence’s I’ll Come Sailing Home to You with music for piano and ukulele by King Kalakaua and Johnny Noble, both honorees..... Read More about I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua

Purchase

Price: $250.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Results 1 - 25 (of 37)
Page 1 of 2
  •  
  • 1
  • 2
  • >Next page

Info

  • Email:
  • Call (302) 998–2886
  • Ordering & Guarantee
  • About Ian Brabner

Browse

  • Buying & Selling Rare Books
  • Rare Book Catalogs
  • Short Lists
  • Recent Acquisitions

We Buy

  • 18th to 19th century rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, antique diaries, journals, handwritten letters, business & family archives. Read more

Subscribe

Periodic updates for short lists, catalogs and news

Member: ABAA, ILAB, Manuscript Society – Est. 1995

  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Hours: M–F, 10am–6pm, EST
  • © 2023 Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Site Map
  • Site by Bibliopolis

I'd like to be notified of new arrivals in the following categories.

Check all categories that are of interest to you.