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[Sheet Music Score]: Listen to the Mocking Bird; Melody by Richard Milburn by HAWTHORNE, Alice [pseudonym of Septimus Winner] - 1855

by HAWTHORNE, Alice [pseudonym of Septimus Winner]

[Sheet Music Score]: Listen to the Mocking Bird; Melody by Richard Milburn by HAWTHORNE, Alice [pseudonym of Septimus Winner] - 1855

[Sheet Music Score]: Listen to the Mocking Bird; Melody by Richard Milburn

by HAWTHORNE, Alice [pseudonym of Septimus Winner]

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Philadelphia: Winner & Shuster, 110 North Eighth St, 1855. Unbound. Very Good. First edition. Folio. 5pp., with an illustrated front cover engraved by R.M. Gaw. Disbound, partial tear to the last page, else very good. The scarce first edition crediting Richard Milburn, an African-American street singer and composer, on the cover with the music. The most popular of Septimus Winner's folk song ballads, Abraham Lincoln once described it "as sincere as the laughter of a little girl at play." Milburn's melody was used by Louis Prima and Keely Smith for their 1956 version of the song, and is also served as a comic theme in *The Three Stooges*.
  • Bookseller Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA US (US)
  • Format/Binding Unbound
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
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  • Publisher Winner & Shuster, 110 North Eighth St
  • Place of Publication Philadelphia
  • Date Published 1855
  • Keywords Music, PopularCulture, African-Americana
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Stories Of Remarkable Birds

by Hawthorne, Alice [Pseudonym Of Septimus Winner]

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New York: Allen Brothers, 1869. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Woodcuts. 128 Pp. Publisher's Purple Cloth Covers, Spine Gilt, Front And Rear Cover Blindstamped, Original Rose-Violet Endpapers. Covers Worn, Spine Gilt All Present And Readable, Fraying In Small Areas At Corners, Hinges Tight, Previous Owner's Signature Dated 1872, Small Areas Of Light Soiling To Pages And Small Areas Dampstaining At Center Foredge Of Some Pages. Scarce, Worldcat Showing Only Two Institutional Holdings.
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