Sheet Music
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# 26137
COPE, Walter D. (composer); CLARKE, J. R. (publisher)
[SHEET MUSIC] Eucalypti waltzes.
[Cover title]. Also titled: “Eucalyptus” waltzes. / Composed by Walter D. Cope. Sydney : J. R. Clarke, 67 Pitt Street (Late 317 George Street), [1879?]. Folio (365 x 275 mm), disbound, original covers featuring a lithographed design of a bush scene with gum trees by F. Halsted (covers detached and with some light staining), 7 …
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# 26136
MORRIS, C. P. (words); RUSSELL, Henry (music); ELLARD, Francis, c.1802-1854 (publisher)
[SHEET MUSIC] Woodman spare that tree. Ballad.
Written by C. P. Morris, Esqre. / Composed by Henry Russell. Also titled: The Old Oak Tree. Sydney : Published by F. Ellard, George St., [1847?]. Small folio (330 x 240 mm), disbound, the first page with engraved decorative calligraphic title in various fonts, at upper left the blind stamp of F. Ellard Music Seller Sydney, 5 …
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# 26140
GOERGS, Karl Wilhelm
[SHEET MUSIC; SOUDAN CONTINGENT] The Harp of the Southern Cross : Australia’s message.
/ by Karl Wilhelm Goergs. Author of Echoes of Australia &c. Cover: “For the Patriotic Fund”. Sydney : [K.W. Goergs?], 1885. Folio (345 x 250 mm), disbound, decorative covers featuring a diagram of the Southern Cross with the date March 3rd, 1885 (closely trimmed at top and bottom edges), [2] pp music notation (arrangement for …
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# 26093
PIRIPATA, Hemi et al
Famous Maori songs
[Dunedin] : Charles Begg & Co., circa 1940. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (reproducing a painting by C. F. Goldie), small stain, pp. [24], colour illustrations reproducing Goldie paintings, landscapes and photographs of Maori. Previous owner’s name inside upper wrapper.
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# 26147
THURIAN, Aldus (words); GRAHAM, Ev. (Eva Violet) (music); BECK, Jim (arranger)
[SHEET MUSIC] Lips of thine (from Bunyips & Bushland). Ballad.
/ Words by Aldus Thurian. Music by Ev. Graham. [Cover title]. Townsville : A. Thurian (?) (T. Willmett & Sons, printer), [c.1945]. Quarto, original decorative wrappers (chipped at top corner), [2] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano), contents clean. Scarce musical setting of a poem by Townsville poet Aldus Thurian, taken from his …
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# 26145
FRANCIS, Skipper
[SHEET MUSIC] For auld lang syne! Australia will be there.
/ Written, composed and sung with phenomenal success by Skipper Francis (The Bristol Channel Swimmer) to whom the Full Theatrical Performing Rights are Secured and Reserved. / Australia’s Battle Song. The Accepted March Song of the Australian Expeditionary Forces. Melbourne : Dinsdale’s Pty. Ltd. [c.1917]. Folio, pictorial wrapers (some edge wear) featuring vignette portrait of …
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# 26021
WILLIAMS, Billy (1877-1915); HALL, Fred (arranger); Various composers
[SHEET MUSIC] Billy Williams song album. (Includes “I met her at St. Kilda”)
Melbourne : Stanley Mullen, [circa 1910]. Large quarto (310 x 250 mm), pictorial wrappers with photographic portrait of Billy Williams (small mark at centre of upper wrapper), staple bound, 20 pp music notation, all piano and voice arrangements by Fred Hall for numerous compositions by various composers, including Williams’ signature tune I met her at St. …
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# 24261
RENTOUL, Annie R. / PETERSON, Georgette / Ida Rentoul OUTHWAITE (illustrator)
[SHEET MUSIC] Australian songs for young and old. (Rare casebound edition)
George Robertson & Co., [1907]. First edition. Oblong quarto, illustrated linen, deluxe silk imitation papered endpapers, pp. 32, all edges gilt. illustrated With frontispiece and eight full page illustrations by Outhwaite. Published to coincide with the 1907 ‘First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work’ with printed dedication to Lady Northcote. The very rare casebound first edition, …
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# 25134
LITTLE, Marsh (composer)
[SHEET MUSIC] Mother Waratah
Cover: Sung by Queenie Paul / Composed by Marsh Little / Successfully introduced into Fullers’ brilliant Australian pantomime “The Bunyip”. Sydney : W. H. Paling & Co. Ltd.., [c.1916]. Folio, original illustrated covers featuring the striking red and green “Bunyip” from the stage production, and cartouche portraits of the play’s producer Nat Phillips, author Ella Airlie, …
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# 25132
LEWS, Sam M. & YOUNG, Victor (words); FIORITO, Ted (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Laugh! clown! laugh!
: song with ukulele arrangement / lyric by Lewis and Young ; music by Ted Fiorito. Sydney : D. Davis & Co. Ltd., [1928]. Folio, original illustrated covers (light foxing, wet stamp of Rockhampton music seller Wm. Munro & Co. to front), [4] pp, music notation (arrangement for piano and ukulele), contents clean; a good …
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# 25133
DUBIN, Al; RATH, Fred; GARREN, Jos. J.
[SHEET MUSIC] Just a girl that men forget : waltz ballad
Sydney : D. Davis & Co. Ltd., [c.1923]. Folio, original illustrated covers (stitch holes from old old binding along spine), [3] pp, music notation (arrangement for piano), contents clean; a good copy. The sheet music for Just a girl that men forget was first issued by New York publisher Jack Mills in 1923. The Australian edition …
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# 25787
TRAKL, Georg (1887-1914); OLSEN, John; McAULEY, James; HARWOOD, Gwen; SITSKY, Larry
Music in the Mirabell Garden
Hobart : New Albion Press, 1982. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, publisher’s orange cloth with gilt lettering over boards and title label in slipcase; viii, 48, v, 93 pp; slipcase with a few light marks, but internally pristine, a fine set. One of 330 numbered copies, signed by Harwood, Olsen, Sitsky and Winter. Translation from …
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# 24876
O'CONNOR, Jack & Arthur LE CLERQ
[SHEET MUSIC] Somewhere in France dear mother.
Cover: Sung by Miss Kate Carney and Miss Dolly Carney. Melbourne : E. W. Cole, Book Arcade, … published by arrangement with Laurence Wright Music Co., London, [1915]. “6d. edition”. Folio, illustrated wrappers (including a vignette photographic portrait of Dolly Carney on stage in military uniform), 5 pp, music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); …
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# 24262
LEE, E. Markham; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul
[SHEET MUSIC]. Robin Hood suite for piano
Melbourne : Allan & Co., 1941. Imperial Edition No. 489. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, pp. 16, a clean copy. Scarce. Not in Muir.
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# 23602
O'HAGAN, Jack (1898-1987) (words & music)
[SHEET MUSIC] The Snake Gully swagger
/ words and music by Jack O’Hagan. Cover: Full instructions for the steps for this dance on back page. Featured in “Dad and Dave” the popular radio serial. Melbourne : Allan & Co., 1939. Large quarto (305 x 240 mm), illustrated cover with label of Melbourne music shop Sutton’s, 5 pp, music notation (arrangement for …
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# 23599
STEVENS, Vernon T. (words & music); GORMAN, Frank W., Rev. (performer)
[SHEET MUSIC] Back to home sweet home
/ Words & music by Vernon T. Stevens. Cover: Sung by Rev. Frank W. Gorman (The Singing Parson) at Fuller’s Vaudeville Theatres. Melbourne : L.F. Collin Pty. Ltd., [c.1920]. Series: Collin’s popular sixpenny edition. Folio, front cover with photographic portrait of Frank Gorman and original owner’s name ‘Vera Bangs’ (light foxing and edge tears), 3 …