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Author: Gershwin, George
Title: George Gershwin's Song-book
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Simon and Schuster
Date Published: 1932
Description:

xii, 167 pp. 18 color illustrations by Constantin Alajalov. (4to) original two-tone brown cloth, lettered in blue, remnants of original pictorial dust jacket. First Trade Edition.

Inscribed by Gershwin in pencil beneath his frontispiece portrait: "To Dorothy Turnley - Every good wish, George Gershwin." Also issued in a signed limited edition of 300 copies, inscribed copies of the trade edition are very scarce. Affixed to the endpapers are several related newspaper clippings and a program from a January 26, 1934 performance by Gershwin and tenor James Melton at the Sioux Falls, South Dakota Coliseum. The program is autographed by Melton. With the bookplate of Dorothy Scallin Turnley. Dorothy Turnley was the first wife of Howard Chandler Turnley, proprietor of the Roof Garden Ballroom in Arnolds Park, Iowa. After her marriage to Howard Turnley, Dorothy married artist Andre Boratko, then director of the WPA Federal Art Project in South Dakota. The couple moved to California in 1943.

Jacket tattered and with several large pieces missing; volume with light wear, clippings pasted or taped to endpapers; very good.