May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
SIGNED BY GERSHWIN (PERFORMING ARTS.) Gershwin, George. George Gershwin's Song-Book. Photographic frontispiece of Gershwin at the piano, and color illustrations by Alajalov. Small folio, rebound in Art Deco-style morocco gilt in the manner of the original binding; endpapers renewed in cloth, including a pocket on the rear pastedown which holds the printed music for Gershwin's "Mischa, Yascha, Toscha, Sascha" as issued; lacks slipcase. New York: Random House, 1932

Additional Details

first signed limited edition. number 233 of 300 copies signed by gershwin and alajalov, the popular illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker.