Search Results: Sheet Music, Pre-1920 from R & A Petrilla

Philadelphia: Library Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: vii, 205 with index; 15pp illus from photographs, showing several hundred song sheets. Bound in brown buckram, gilt spine lettering. 11.25" x 8.5" Standard reference on the topic.

New York: R.R. Bowker, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xxvii, 287 with index; 32 plates showing sheet-music covers. Bound in blue buckram, gilt lettering on spine, top edges gilt. 10.5" x 7.75

NY: Firth, Pond, 1850. Tenth Edition. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 6pp, four verses and a chorus. In part: ".I'se gwine to roam the wide world In lands I've never hoed, With nothing but my banjo To cheer me on the road...." Embellished cover title Spine reinforced. 13.75" x 10.5

NY: Firth, Pond, 1851. Early edition. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 6pp, four verses and a chorus. In part: "...I'se gwine to roam the wide world In lands I've never hoed, With nothing but my banjo To cheer me on the road...." Embellished cover title. Spine reinforced. 13.75" x 10.5

Chicago: Frank K. Root & Co, 1915. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 6pp, folio. Words and music, in part: "Hiram Lord from Wellsboro, He bought a Ford a week ago, And he paid for it in reg'lar dough, Then took a trip to town...." The cover features a large portrait of Jack Frost, no car present. 13.5" x 10.25

NY: Shapiro, Bernstein, 1920. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. 6pp. In part: "I'm Rosie, the queen of the models I used to live up in the Bronx But I wander'd from there down to Washington Square And Bohemian Honky Tonks...." 12" x 9" The cover has a photo of Fannie Brice in costume to sing this song, an homag to the Greenwich Village of 1920.

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1850. First Edition. Very Good. Eleven verses, in part: "Come all you jolly rams And listen to my song,-- I will tell you of a cowardly crowd, Called Scrougers, No. 1 .... We run to no fires. At Second and Wharton we stand; And when we meet a friend, We will take him by the hand...." Typographic ornamental border. 11" x 5.5". Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1964.] The Rams were a small, independent fire brigade in mid-19th-century Philadelphia. "Ordinances of 1840, 1855, and 1856 established a City Fire Department which was a voluntary association of independent fire companies which, in return for subsidies, accepted the direction of City Councils" (Wikipedia). This song refers to the Philadelphia fire-company riots of the 19th century, which led the City Council to eliminate the volunteer fire-company system.

New-York: H. De Marsan, 1865. Early edition. Very Good. Eight verses and chorus, in part: "The Yankees boast that they make clocks / Which 'just beat all Creation;' / They never made one could keep time / With our Great Speculation.... Stock's par, stock's up, Then on the wane. / Every body's trouble with 'Oil on the brain.'" DeMarsan comic-heads border. 10" x 6.25". Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1690, variant border.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1850. First Edition. Very Good. Six verses, in part: "Come all you Good Will heroes, And listen to my song .... The Fairmount say they are No. 1, But I do not think it so, For the Good Will Engine is No. 1, When to a fire she does go ....There is a saucy crowd of boys That stand at Eleventh and Race...Green Monsters they do call themselves .... For when we meet the Fairmount, We will race them all around, And we will whip those bloody butchers, Or die upon the ground." Typographic ornamental border. 11.25" x 4.25". Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 827.] This song refers to the Philadelphia fire-company riots of the 19th century, which led the City Council to eliminate the volunteer fire-company system.

New York: H. De Marsan, 1870. First Edition. Very Good. Six verses and choruses, in part: "On a Monday afternoon, in the latter part of June, I got on board the ferry-boat for Weehawken...." Ship border, with war scenes in lower corners. 10" x 6". One edge chip, slightly into border. Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1070.].

s.l.: s.n., 1826. First Edition. Good. Three verses, in part: "Awake all ye Muses, begin the glad song, Extol the Creator, his praises prolong....Each emulous youth may be able to share, With Bacon, and Newton, with Locke and with Blair...." Typographical ornament border. 5" x 3.5". Printed on yellow old yellow stock with ghosts of writing on the verso. Sealed in archival mylar. [ Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].

New York: E. Nason & Co, 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Two verses and a chorus, in part: "Little Robin, tell Kitty I'm coming, Yes, tell her to meet me for sure...." Vine and floral border. 9.25" x 6". Sealed in archival mylar. [Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].

Philadelphia: A.W. Auner, Song Publisher & Printer, 1860. First Edition. Good. Four verses, in part: "I've been thinking of late I've been thinking....At our Union's great increase in crime. Cries good Uncle Sam, it's a poser .... Just think while you're drinking your wine, sir, How the poor of our nation are fed ...." 7.25" x 4.25". Paper tanning, bottom edge trimmed close; two old reinforcements on verso. Sealed in archival mylar. [Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].

[Philadelphia]: [Thomas M. Scroggy], 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Four verses, in part: "The 'Bleeders' of fighting so often have boasted, But still when we meet them, they never will stand .... The think they are spunky and so very knowing, By threat'ning to whip all the Marshal's Police .... Here's to the Tormentors, so galland and clever, In fighting their foes they will ever stand still...." Typographic ornamental border.. 6" x 5". Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 788.] This song refers to the Philadelphia fire-company riots of the 19th century, which led the City Council to eliminate the volunteer fire-company system.

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1852. First Edition. Very Good. Eight verses and chorus, in part: "Now since you have asked a song of me, I will sing a song of woe .... Her father was an Indian chief,-- In ambush he had lain, To rob the wearied soldier boys, Likewise the baggage train...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.75" x 5". Sealed in archival mylar. Paper tanning, with two repairs on the verso. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1046.].

Philadelphia: T.M. Scroggy, 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Fourteen (14) verses, in part: "Ye Members of the Franklin Hose, I pray you lend an ear .... It was on the 25th of December, Upon a Christmas night .... It proved to be a bon-fire, At Schuylkill Third and Collowhill .... Here's a health to Benjamin Franklin...To the members of the Franklin Hose...." Typographic ornament border. 9.75" x 6". Sealed in archival mylar. Contains many allusions to old Philadelphia streets, neighborhoods, and fire brigades. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 674.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1850. Original edition. Very Good. Contains five verses, in part: "Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? / Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.5" x 6" [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 131b.].

Philadelphia: T.M. Scroggy, 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Seven verses and a chorus, in part: "Attend ye 'Bugs' and 'Corkers,' to a fact I will relate, I'll tell you how we passed the 'Yellow Hickory' of late, The streets were very muddy, and the fire it was Nor'West, We rolled the 'Raven' out and each resolved to do his best...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.5" x 5.75". Minor chips from top edge. Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets,122.] This song refers to the Philadelphia fire-company riots of the 19th century, which led the City Council to eliminate the volunteer fire-company system.

New York: Henry J. Wehman, 1850. First Edition. Very Good. Three verses and chorus, in part: "The Spring had come, the flowers in bloom, The birds sung out their lay...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.25" x 5.5". Sealed in archival mylar. [Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].

Philadelphia: s.n., 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Four verses and a chorus, in part: "When you wake up in the morning, And if the papers you do read .... Tramps sighing, politicians crying, On wind we must get fat .... They have 'nothing' for the breakfast, Then they boil it down for dinner...." 7.75" x 4.25". Sealed in archival mylar. [Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].