May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
GERSHWIN, GEORGE. Isaac Goldberg. George Gershwin: A Study in American Music. Signed and Inscribed, to actress Aileen Pringle, with a holograph musical stave showing a "G" half note, on a front blank: "For Aileen -- / In appreciation of / a great girl. / Affectionately, / George / Sept. 24, 1931." 8vo, publisher's cloth, slightly worn. New York, 1931; inscription: 24 September 1931
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Gershwin was rumored to have had a love affair with Pringle in 1930; at the end of that year, Gershwin's musical Girl Crazy premiered on Broadway.