Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 298

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 750 - $ 1,000
INSCRIBED TO MR. AND MRS. JAMES AMOS PORTER (MUSIC.) HANDY, W.C. The Rough Rocky Road (I'm Most Done Travelling. * Vesuvius (There's a Red Glow in the Sky Above Vesuvius). Two pieces of printed music. Bi-folium sheets, folded to form four 4to pages; each with an inserted 4to sheet forming an additional 2 pages, as is common with sheet music. Some moderate darkening at the page edges. New York: Handy Brothers, 1921-1935
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fine associations, inscribed by Handy to the noted African-American artist James Amos Porter and his wife, long-time Howard University librarian and scholar Dorothy Porter: "To James and Dorothy Porter with appreciation W. C. Handy, Sept. 11, 1936."