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. Original edition. Very Good. Contains four verses, in part: "When first I saw sweet Peggy, / 'Twas on a Market Day, / A low Back'd Car she drove and sat, / Upon a tuft of hay...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.75" x 5.75" [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1332b.].

Philadelphia: A.W. Auner's Printing Office, 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Three verses and a chorus, in part: "Just before the battle, Mother, I was drinking mountain dew; But when I saw the Rebels marching, Unto the rear I quickly flew...." Scrollwork border. 9.5" x 6". Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1835--variant.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1850. Original edition. Very Good. Contains three verses, in part: "I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide, / The ocean's my home and my bark is my bride....Our flag of defiance still waves o'er the sea...." Typographic ornamental border. 8.5" x 4.5" [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1014c.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1850. Early edition. Very Good. Three verses, in part: "Now sunlight dies, and over The valley reigns delight .... 'Tis at the Feast of Roses, Within thy vale, Cashmere." Ornamental typographic border. 7" x 5" [Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1850. Original edition. Very Good. Contains four verses, in part: "Oh don't you remember the Paupers, Tom Brown? / The Paupers who ain't got no dough...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.25" x 6" [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1859.].

San Francisco: Bell & Company, 1876. First Edition. Very Good. Four verses, a chorus, and spoken interludes, in part: "A very well known city man, Presents himself to you, And you may guess when I am dressed, Of girls I know a few...." [A widow tells Tommy that a stranger on the train is his uncle, and merriment ensues.] Typographic ornamental border. 10.75" x 3.75". Near fine condition. Sealed in archival mylar. [Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1850. Original edition. Very Good. Contains three verses, in part: "The Knight is on his steed again, / To fields of war he's going...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.5" x 6" [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 323.].

New York: H. De Marsan, 1860. Original edition. Very Good. Contains 7 verses, in part: "...On her I got love-sick; she was a domestic, And lived at a mansion in Madison square...." Decorative border of patriotic and nautical scenes. 10" x 6.5" [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 2066.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Eleven verses and a chorus, in part: "As the Buff: was going up Walnut Street, The Philly Engine they chanced to meet, Says they my boys give us no talk, For the Phil'a is the 'cock of the walk.'" .... The Washy, Philly, and Franklin Hose, The Buff: can whip if they dare oppose; For those three companies need not talk, For the Buffalo is the 'cock of the walk.'" Typographic ornamental border. 9.5" x 4.75". Slight edge chipping, no text loss. Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 218.] 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.J. Wehman, 1860. Early edition. Very Good. Three verses and chorus, in part: "Soon beyond the harbor bar Shall my bark be sailing far; O'er the world I wander lone, Sweet Belle Mahone...." Vine and floral border. 9" x 6" Sealed in archival mylar. [Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M.Scroggy, 1860. Early edition. Very Good. Three verses, in part: "I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide, The ocean's my home and my bark is my bride .... Hurrah! my brave crew, ye may drink, ye may sleep, The storm fiend has hushed, we're along on the deep...." Typographic ornamental border. 8.5" x 4.5" Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1014c.].

Philadelphia: T.M. Scroggy, 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Eight verses, in part: "The Corkers are a crowd of men, who loaf about the town, Whose boarding bills are running up, and funds are running down .... In the Engine or Hose house, the Corker you will find .... While the alms house is handy, and Moyamensing near, Where you will be confined, without your pretzel or your beer...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.5" x 6". Small chip from upper corner, no text loss. Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 392.] 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. Moyamensing Prison was at Passyunk & Reed streets in South Philadelphia. Poe spent a night there in 1849, following his drunken suicide attempt.

[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, 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.].