On a Slow Boat to China (Slowly with a beat)
by Loesser, Frank, words and music
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Melrose Music Corp, 1948. Sheet_music. Single large folio leaf printed and folded to make a typical two-page sheet music spread with monochrome cover illustration and a terminal page advertisement for other 1948 efforts (none so durable as this). Item very slightly edgeworn with some light creasings along its bottom edge, paperstock faintly toned, no markings, a very good copy. "I'd love to get you ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHI-NA, All to myself, a-lone. Get you and keep you in my arms ev-er-more.. Out on the briny, with a moon big and shiny.." Emptor to expect just the one stanza; "There is no verse to this song, 'Cause I don't want to wait a mo-ment too long..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 229388
- Title
- On a Slow Boat to China (Slowly with a beat)
- Author
- Loesser, Frank, words and music
- Format/Binding
- Sheet_music
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Melrose Music Corp
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; 1940S; China; Sheet music; songs, lyrics;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...