Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 297

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
COLLABORATION BY THREE GIANTS (MUSIC.) EUROPE, JAMES REESE, NOBLE SISSLE AND EUBIE BLAKE. Mirandy (That Gal o' Mine). Folio sheet of printed music with pictorial photographic cover of Lieutenant James Reese Europe and Lieutenant Noble Sissle; tiny closed tear to outer blank margin, not affecting text or image. New York: Jos. W. Stern, (1919)
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Uncommon piece of sheet music. During WWI, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake were both in James Reese Europe's legendary 369th Infantry "Harlem Hell Cats" band. After the war, Blake and Sissle co-wrote "Shuffle Along," the first black musical.